What Scares Me the Most

With a title like that, it sounds like I’m going to be all poetic and flowery.

I’m not. This post is literally just about fear.

Writers like Stephen King have made successful careers out of exploring fear. Fear comes in so many shapes and forms. Fear can take on traditional forms, like chainsaw-wielding crazy people murdering. It can take on the forms of ghosts and the paranormal. Or it can take on more mundane, odd tendencies that phobias stem from.

Fear is different for each of us. Scientists tell us that fear is a remnant of our primitive days when we needed to be afraid in order to survive.

Fear is such a crucial emotion for writers to understand. We have to know how fear motivates our characters, how it interacts with our readers, and how it can drive plot.

It isn’t always easy owning up to our fears, but it is essential, whether we be a reader or writer. So, with that in mind, here are the things that scare me the most:

Needles! Big time! As in ugly crying over a shot, even as an adult.
Especially jumping ones.
Heights: cue Ferris wheel panic attack
Tornados, even though we don’t get like any where we live
Death: If we’re honest, aren’t we all a little afraid of the unknown?

So in honor of fear confessions, what are your biggest fears? Fess up below :)