My biggest fear that I have experienced while writing my literary guide to The New York Times was failure. I don’t want to spend hours languishing on a paper and then get to class to see that everything that I did was wrong. During the drafting process I experience this fear a lot. I am unsure of whether or not to include a sentence or focus on a subject because I’m not positive on its validity in my paper. I know that in order to write this paper successfully, I will have to overcome this fear and will probably have to write multiple drafts before my final.
I don’t recognize the person that wrote this post, honestly. From September to December I have shed the skin of my easily intimidated self. I do still worry that I won’t receive grades up to par with what I have been getting, but I no longer feel like I can’t do whatever project is presented in front of me. I have learned that part of being a writer is to be fearful of nothing and to simply dive into the lion’s pit. Now, biology is a totally different story; I’m scared to death in there.