Bye-Bye June and July Insecure Writer's Group

This is my first post since I took my June break. I'm shocked at how slow I am in putting it together and how fast June vanished into the past. Ireland was an adventure with so many exciting and wonderful experiences. I've been there twice before, but each time I find more to explore and more to enjoy.

Driving in Ireland is always one experience that sharpens my senses and makes me pay attention to those otherwise automatic responses. When you're on the "wrong" side of the road, shifting with your left, not your right hand and mostly lost, it's kind of like having to take over all your usually unconscious functions like breathing. Such a big job.  
Anyway I made it. Now I have to see if I remember how to make a right hand turn American style!



ALEX CAVANAUGH
I'm back in time to consider the topic of insecurity and how it affects our lives as writers.

Mine creeps in on tiptoes when I'm trying to pay attention to a work in progress, then grabs me by the throat with questions. Will I be able to tell the story I want? Will it be as good on the page as it is in my head? Will anyone besides me "get" what I'm trying to say?

Since Ms. Insecurity is repetitive in her questions and I respond pretty much the same way every time, I should be able to deal with her very efficiently. But even with the sameness factor, I have to cope with her each time as if it were the first.

So what's your Insecurity today? Be sure to visit others who share the fun with you! And here are the Co-Hosts! Check out their sites along the way.  Charity Bradford, S.A. Larsen, AJ, Tamara Narayan, Allison Gammons, and Tanya Miranda! 

Sliding on the Edge, C. Lee McKenzie, WestSide Books, Spring '09
The Princess of Las Pulgas, WestSide Books, Fall '10
The First Time, Fall '11 (Anthology story: Premeditated Cat)
Alligators Overhead, Outskirts Press, Fall '12
Two and Twenty Dark Tales (Anthology story: Into the Sea of Dew