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Reshma Jacob
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Top 9 Strategies to Overpower the Fear of Writing, Publishing, and Promoting

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Do you get scared when it comes to writing or sharing your content? Do you wonder from where this fear generates? Read this article to know the cause and remedy to your fears.

Introduction:

Every content creator experiences the fear of writing, publishing, and promoting once or more in their writing career. Whether you are new to writing or an experienced writer, you might get nervous when you have to share your write-up. Several reasons lead to the generation of this fear. However, one fear is common to all. It is the fear of writing and sharing only valuable stuff with your readers. You want to communicate your ideas in the form of writing with others. But at the same time, you have a fear of what your audience will think of you, whether they will like it or not.  You lose hope and underestimate your capabilities to write.

You stop focusing on your reader and shift your focus on yourself. Instead of creating something that provides value to your readers, you end up wasting all your energy in thinking about how others will react to your work.

Here in this article, you will learn the causes of fear of writing, publishing, and promoting and how to move forward with confidence.

  1. Peer Pressure Vs Passion

The first step is to identify the root cause of your fear. Analyze whether you are genuinely passionate about writing or writing because of peer pressure. If you love to write, you can learn the skill with consistent practice, even if you do not know how to write. However, if you write only to please people, then your writing career will be short-lived.

At this stage, re-evaluate your decision to write.

A few years back, I had an experience. I always enjoyed reading articles, blogs, books, etc. So, I developed an interest in writing. With many failed attempts, at that moment, I realized I was not passionate about writing. Now, years later, I realized I still have an urge to write. I attribute this twist to the positive reviews I got for two poems I wrote after my breakup.

  1. Create a Writer’s Mindset

Creating a writer’s mindset helps you to be control of your writing. This would be about capture your thoughts, ideas with the help of right words.  Be it would be technology reviews or lifestyle coaching or any specialty writing, the writers mindset helps the individual to come up with the frame work of the article. When you are an amateur you can choose certain frame work such as use of who, what, why, where and how as a core of the article structure.

  1. Create a Habit of Regular Writing

There is always a first time. Make the first conscious decision to write. Make writing your habit. You can plan on certain days or allocated regular time daily. Let your mind dictate the thoughts as you pen them down. Embrace the flow of the thoughts, you may edit and reorder it after finishing your task of writing. This way you ensure you have captured everything you wanted to say. Read through article and see if it has a story you had envisioned and check if the order of the message is correct. These are your initial scribblings and do not rush in publishing them yet.

  1. Build your Circle of Critics

A reviewer can be your friend, editor, or an experienced writer. Analyze their feedback and incorporate their suggestions into your writing.  It will refine your writing skills, and you will know how to write engaging and valuable content for your readers.

  1. Take courage to publish on social media

You can choose to publish snippets of your articles in social media. You can experience the readers reactions to your work. If you receive any criticism, take it to your positive stride. Revalidate your work basis the criticism and edit it in case you feel the need for it. This way you will build confidence to take criticism with a pinch of salt. In todays time you have linkedin, facebook, wordpress and various other media. Choose your platform. This will also build your brand as well.

  1. Mentor

While Mentor concept can be a vey commonly used, when you are in this space where you have a writer block, a mentor with a similar journey can help you as buddy to get through the most difficult stumblers in your path of being a good writer.

  1. Choose your niche & micro niche

So now you have found the purpose, built in a habit and courage to go public and acquired critics. Now it is time to find your niche and micro niche. Wonder why, you need to make a repute in an area you would thrive. You would agree with me in field, generalist is never having a huge value. Take any field only specialists are paid better. While writing is not monetary gain, it is about having an audience who would be able to connect. You have folks writing on technology or gadgets or food or travelogue or self help and various other fields. The intent is about connecting with your audience, repute of yourself and sustain your client base.

  1. Join a community

Find your support community. In today’s there are community that supports individual achieve their goal. Be it weight loss to cooking to travel or even writing, you have community. You need have niche-based community. Do a little research to find a writer’s community of your comfort. I have found my community of comfort – Digital writopreneurs.

  1. Challenge and Reward yourself

Occasionally, try and challenge yourself. Maybe you could challenge yourself by increasing the word limit or try a new area. Or participate in contest. Improve your own standard it is like breaking your own records. Celebrate both success and failure It helps improve your quality and confidence. Remember your biggest competitor is yourself.

An additional tip that would recommend is if at all you are required to write on a topic which is new or you are not an expert, never hesitate, do your research. The internet is never short of information and build your article based on the insights. Never let the fear of the unknown stop you from what you are passionate about. These are the simple steps that has helped me overcome my fear of writing. I am proud of what I am now. It is journey of learning to be a better writer. Last of all be consistent in your approach, its only then you would see the results of your work. You need to do this over period of time for celebrating success. Remember you can’t build your empire overnight. Last is my life lesion that I truly follow which is daily 1% improvement and sustaining it.

Do share steps that has worked for you in the comments section. Incase you steps which is not mentioned here but has worked for you kindly share the same in the comments sections.

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Written by: Reshma Jacob, HR Professional and Digital Writopreneur

Edited by: Rajinder Soni, Writer’s Coach, Digital Writopreneurs Hub

 

This topic was modified 3 years ago by Reshma Jacob

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