“There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure.” - Brenda Ueland

“That is why you must freely and recklessly make new mistakes - in writing or in life - and do not fret about them but pass on and write more. Active evil is so much better than passive good, which is just docility, feebleness, timidity. And do not try to be consistent, for what is true to you today may not be true at all tomorrow, because you see a better truth. “For when you begin to plan such a huge edifice of words, your heart fails you. It is too hard, it will never get done, it is too complex and frightful. No, write what comes to you now. More will come later. The river will begin to flow through you.” “Know that it is good to work. Work with love and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy and interesting. It is a privilege. There is nothing hard about it but your anxious vanity and fear of failure” Brenda Ueland - If You Want To Write - originally published in 1938 and kept alive and brought to me by the great Greywolf press among others !