Venting is Good!!

I recently received this email and with Stephanie's permission am passing it along. Hope it helps with your angst, too!!
We are not alone.

Hi Emily,
Happy New Year!
I have enrolled in a course to help me with my first novel. My first assignment is due on the 22nd. of this month. I just need to tell someone who will understand(you) I am nervous and scared, I wish that I wasn't but I am.
I know it's the inner critic at work but the fact that I still have just two paragraphs for my first assignment is freaking me out.
Emily, I know I can write but why must I continually succumb to scribe paralysis (what I call writer's block).
Anyway as I close this e-mail I'm heading back to my work. I just needed someone to vent to that would understand.
Thanks for being out there.
Peace,
Stephanie


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