Why Is Being a Writer So Embarrassingly Scary?

Unfettered(ish) thoughts about the personal embarrassment of being a writer.

Writing in the digital age and social media sphere is really strange. When I first had an inkling that I might like to be a writer, I was around 10 or 11. I scribbled ‘notes’ into pocket-sized notebooks – does anybody remember those one-inch keyring notebooks? – and wrote short stories on the family computer, spending so much time on that ancient PC tha…