Creative Writing Fears - I'm Scared I'll Use Up All My Creative Ideas If I Write Too Much Too Soon

Sometimes it’s ok to be scared.

It doesn’t mean you’re weak or abnormal. It’s a part of life as a creative writer to have fears around writing.

But when those fears start to severely limit our writing, it’s time to take action.

These fears can appear in many different forms. One of the most common is the fear that we have a fixed quota of creative ideas and once we use this up, they’re all gone.

Let’s look at this fear in more detail and what you can do to beat it:

"I’m scared I’ll use up all my ideas if I write too much.

I guess I believe I can only have a fixed amount of good ideas in my life, so I want to pace myself and spread them out.

I don’t want to use them up then have years of nothing."

How to overcome the fear:

This, possibly more than anything else, is the biggest myth that stops us creating.

It’s a myth because the truth is we DON’T have a LIMITED reservoir of ideas. It’s infinite. You’ll only have a limited ability to come up with new ideas if that’s what you believe you have.

The only way to tap into all those unlimited potential ideas out there is to train yourself to be open to them. Be curious and inquisitive about everything. Look for the spark of a new angle or the twinkle of a fresh viewpoint in all that’s around you, everywhere you go.

This is one of the most dangerous fears there is for creative writers. It can literally stop us dead if we allow it to take hold.

How have you noticed this fear presenting itself in your creative writing life?

So what action can you take - starting here, today, right now – to minimise its negative impact?

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Creativity Coach and keen creative writer Dan Goodwin helps people who are struggling to be as creative as they know they can be. See more at his website: www.CoachCreative.com