March... Fear of Failure
Techniques to deal with the crippling fear of failure in your writing.
Fear cripples every writer, without exception, at one point or another. And the root of that fear almost always is fear of failure.
Early examples of these fears are fear of writing because you might fail or fear of finishing because they you will have to show it to someone and it might fail. Those two fears alone stop 95% of all want-to-be writers.
But how does fear impact you once you are writing and publishing? It manifests differently for all of us, but always has the same root fear of failure.
This weekend workshop helps identify the major fear of failure areas you have and then gives you techniques and methods to kill the fear or deal with it so you can keep writing and producing fiction.
Fear also leaches out all the fun from writing and this weekend workshop will help you get that joy and excitement back into your fiction writing.
We are calling this workshop “Controlling Fear of Failure” because that fear will always remain with all of us in different forms. How we control the fear instead of letting the fear control us is the key to success in our writing.
If you realize you have a fear of failure with your writing in one place or another, this workshop will help you learn how to control and contain that fear.
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Starts at 12:01 a.m. US Pacific Coast Time on Thursday March 15th. If you are signed up, make sure you log in and look at the videos early on Thursday, March 15th. Six or seven videos will appear each morning. An assignment will be due that evening if you want to do it. Workshop goes four days, ends on Sunday without an assignment. There will be about thirty teaching videos total when all finished.
Your Instructor
With over twenty-three million copies of his books in print, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith now brings you original fiction every month for the past three years in his own magazine, Smith’s Monthly.
Dean wrote over twenty-five original Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, plus Spider-Man, X-Men, Iron Man novels, and others. He wrote many gaming novels including Final Fantasy.
He wrote novels and stories under almost fifty pen names and did scripts for Hollywood as well as being an editor for various magazines. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife, writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch. You can follow his writing life at www.deanwesleysmith.com
Course Curriculum
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StartFear Day #1, Session #1... We are all afraid. (4:43)
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StartFear Day #1, Session #2... Two parts of the brain. (5:24)
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StartFear Day #1, Session #3... Taught by non-writers. (6:58)
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StartFear Day #1, Session #4... More Stuff Taught by non-writers. (4:59)
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StartFear Day #1, Session #5... Even more... (7:33)
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StartFear Day #1, Session #6... Consequences (6:57)
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StartFear Assignment #1 (4:52)
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StartFear Day #2, Session #1... Awareness (6:20)
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StartFear Day #2, Session #2... Perfection (4:14)
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StartFear Day #2, Session #3... Doing the Best You Can vs. Perfection (5:58)
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StartFear Day #2, Session #4... Dare to be Bad (5:14)
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StartFear Day #2, Session #5... Personality traits... (7:57)
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StartFear Assignment #2 (2:38)