Thoughts About Writing

I am reading a book about humor writing and the book seems to have some wise advice about writing. The book is by Patrick McManus and it's called, The Deer on a Bicycle: Excursions into the Writing of Humor.

One line that struck me was this one: "I've known some wonderfully talented writers over the years who could not overcome their fear [the fear of writing], and therefore never submitted their work to publishers. Their work was never quite 'ready,' they'd say. They suffered from the fear of failure."

I've heard material like that before. But as I get older, it seems more and more true.

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