Contents

 

I. THE ELEMENTS OF COURAGE

l. Writing as an Act of Courage

A Dangerous Career The Great Unspoken Courage vs. Fearlessness The Power of Positive Anxiety

2. Points of Courage

Can I Pull it Off? I Can't Write About That! Page Fright The Paper Partner Evicting the Baby Galley Jitters Advance Copy Anxiety Post-Publication Panic

3. What's Mom Gonna Think?

That Naked Feeling Censors-in-Chief Spilling the Beans Spies and Scalawags Alternatives

4. The Devil in the Inkstand

The Secret Self Honest Fiction Peering into the Void Style is the Man, and Woman Why Write? Lonely Kids, Lovely Writers

II. COMING TO TERMS WITH FEAR

5.Finessing Fear

Non-Writing, Trunk Writing, and Privishing Literary Fog Higher Obfuscation Beyond Craft

6. Putting Fear to Work

A Taste for Fear Counter-Phobia The Secret Weapon Wonderfully Concentrated Minds Details, Details Opening Pores

7. Should You Write in the Nude?

The Tactical Writer Rituals Totems Draft Dodgers Compose First, Worry Later Block Busting Writers' Hours Customized Fear Management

8. A Little Help From Friends

To Show or Not to Show Where Have You Gone, Maxwell Perkins? Courses, Conferences and Groups The Case for Groups

9. The Courageous Writer

Writing and Ecstasy The Biggest Risk No Regrets The Branwell Bronte Syndrome Courage Boosters Writing by Not Writing

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