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“Fear is a universal experience. Even the smallest insect feels it. We wade in tidal pools and put our finger near the soft, open bodies of sea anemones and they close up. Everything spontaneously does that. It’s not a terrible thing that we feel fear when faced with the unknown. It is part of being… Continue reading Fear is a universal experience

“Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson This includes other people’s nonsense. Wake up, forgive yourself for all your mistakes from yesterday (the past). Mistakes are to be learnt from. If you must feel guilty,… Continue reading Tomorrow is a new day

if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words,… Continue reading So you want to be a writer? by Charles Bukowski