Three links about fear

Weekly synchronicity

Here’s three links:

1. “As long as you are working on a story in some fashion or another, it is not finished, and thus you don’t have to risk the fear of failure.” — Dean Wesley Smith on the two fears that stop writers from finishing

2. “Everyone has different taste. What appears perfect to you will be a steamy, stinky pile of something nasty to someone else. And what you think sucks, someone else will not.” —

   Harvey Stanbrough
   on the myth of the perfect work

3. “I didn’t think the chances of surviving an ejection at Mach 3.18 and 78,800 ft. were very good.” — Test pilot Bill Weaver ejected from a hypersonic breakup decades before Maverick made it cool (writing for an hour doesn’t look so terrifying in comparison)

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