I have to force myself to do this. I need to put words down. I need to face my fear of failure. Some day I won't need to start everything that I write with this kind of pep talk.

I am afraid that my words won't stand up to what I have heard others say. I am a phrasologist; I deal in snips and clips of sentences. I don't move on to the substantial. I stay near the surface. Fear, so much fear. It stops my words at simile, it holds my tongue at metaphor.