Don’t be afraid. That simple.
Don’t let them scare you.
There’s nothing they can do to you…a writer always writes.
That’s what he’s for. And if they won’t let you write one kind of thing,
if they chop you off at the pockets in the market place,
then go to another market place.

And if they close off all the bazaars then by god go and work with your hands
till you can write, because the talent is always there. But the first time you say,
“Oh Christ, they’ll kill me!”, then you’re done.

Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage.
And if he has none, he is more than a coward. he is a sellout and a fink and a heretic,
because writing is a holy chore.

~ Harlan Ellison

Harlan says it all, this was the inital post here, surely someday lost to the bottom of the stack, but this is why I write, what I believe, and the reason I spend my time on stuff like this.

 Thanks for asking,

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