An amazing amount of worries exists only in your head. Meditation helps see it, but even without meditation, if you simply think about it, your writing is a made-up world that at first exists only in your head, and only later, after you write it, starts existing on paper.

So most of your worries about your writing are just that, WORRIES.

At times in your writing you’ll come across something that’ll scare you shitless. A twist in your story. A path to a darkness you didn’t know existed. A word or a phrase your character utters that makes the hair stand on your head.

Your first impulse would be to shrink away from it.

Don’t.

Whatever scares you in your writing, explore it further. Dig. There is a treasure hidden.

When your writing goes to shit, be a flower. Be a fragrant rose. Or a lily. Or a peony. 

Think about it. 

A flower always smells wonderful, no matter the state of the world around it. Of course, it loses its fragrance as it ages and dies, but I’m talking about a concept. 

Visualize yourself as a flower, something anyone would be happy with, to look at, to encounter, to smell. 

You must.

For all of us to learn to listen better.

Do it.

Or, in stronger terms...

DON'T GIVE A FUCK.