How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?
Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.
Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.
Anxiety is not only an inevitable part of the writing process but a necessary part. If you’re not scared, you’re not writing.
Serious writers write, inspired or not. Over time they discover that routine is a better friend than inspiration.
One thing I like about writing is that it provides such a wonderful opportunity for confidential chats with readers. In the privacy of writing, and reading, we can discuss topics that are a little touchy, a bit embarrassing, and feel less alone in the process. Feeling consumed by memories from high school. Feeling wimpy. Feeling time-obsessed. Yearning for our fathers. Wishing we were taller, or shorter, or less average. To name just a few.
. . . wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly. " (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)
it is the modern nature of goodness to exert itself quietly, while a few characters of the opposite cast seem, by the rumor of their exploits, to fill the world; and by their noise to multiply their numbers.
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.
Air Force interceptors still pursue Unidentified Flying Objects as a matter of national security to this country and to determine technical aspects involved.
The hardest part, for real, is probably when you just don't feel like going on stage and being funny.