Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Oct/Nov 2014 - Featuring Louise Hay | Page 89

INSPIRED
TO

Write?
CAREER/BUSINESS

FEARLESS WRITING:

What I Learned

FROM MY 5 YEAR-OLD SON
BY LISA TENER

F

earlessness: Boldness, Courage,
Pluck. We often mean these words
when we talk about fearlessness. We
don’t necessarily mean “without fear”
but more something like, “Feel the fear
and do it anyway.”
We may know that acting boldly and
with valor has its rewards, but so much
of the time, we live in the safe zone,
don’t we? And this can be true of our
writing, or any creative aspects of our
lives, as well. So much of the time we
operate where we’re comfortable. And
where does that get us?
A few years ago, I’d been working on a
short article about writing that I hoped
to send into an anthology. I thought it
would be easy to write something good,
if not brilliant. After all, I’d written articles
on writing with a certain ease for years

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