Andromeda’s Reviews > Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear > Status Update

“my fear wasn’t some kind of rare artisanal object. it was just a mass produced item, available on the shelves of any generic box store. and that’s the thing I wanted to build my entire identity around? The most boring instinct I possessed? The panic reflex of my dumbest inner tadpole?”

This makes me think of the study that showed conservatives have more activity in the fear centers of their brains

“if I’d had my way I would’ve spent… my entire childhood indoors snuggled on my mother‘s lap in low light preferably with a cool wash cloth on my forehead.”

the best artists are almost all undiagnosed autistic girlies

Elizabeth Gilbert out here listing off every single fear that stops me from making art including, but not limited to:

“you’re afraid your work isn’t politically, emotionally, or artistically important enough to change anyone’s life”

and

“you’re afraid you’re too fat”

feeling slightly called out