Look Who it Was Random video

Fear of Judgement

3,425 views · Published 6 March 2018 · 7:27 · Indexed 31 October 2026

Channel: The Creative Penn · 2018 · Education

Watch on YouTube

Get your free 7 Steps to Write your Novel cheatsheet at: http://www.thecreativepenn.com/7steps

If you put your words on the page and the book into the world, someone is going to judge you. And that can be a scary thought!

Fear of judgment is something that I've come up against a number of times in my writing career, particularly when I was writing Desecration.
- What is fear of judgement and what does it feel like? 
- Your book is not you
- Find a community online - as it's unlikely that your family and friends in real life will like your art 
- Use a pseudonym
- Why we need to live with it and create anyway

Full transcript here: 
https://www.thecreativepenn.com/fear-of-judgment/

You can find the books mentioned here: 
https://www.thecreativepenn.com/mindset/
https://jfpenn.com/book/desecration/
https://jfpenn.com/book/crypt-of-bone/

More from this channel