Dancing With Fear...another writer's thoughts.

What follows is a comment that came through on a blog that Claire put up. I loved what the writer said and so am pasting it for all of us to read.

Posting comments to the blog entries is very inspiring for all of us! We need more commenting, so join in. You never know when what you say will inspire another writer!


Claire,

Thanks so much for your thoughts on "dancing with fear."

Don't writers dance with fear each time we sit down to write in search of something that we've never heard or seen before? Writing, like life, doesn't offer any guarantees; some days it feels like we're dancing on a thin wire without a net.

Do you know the Hasidic story that suggests life is like a very narrow bridge? The trick to crossing is not to be afraid. And it's true, isn't it?

There are some days when the wire and the fear vanish... and the dance of our words on the page (and our own dance through life) is pure joy.

Many thanks to you and Emily for such a thoughtful blog.

Bruce