The Learning Dreamer

What were some books that impacted you as a child or young adult? The first Wednesday of each month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. As members of this community, we post on our own blog our thoughts, talk about our doubts, the fears we have conquered, and we our struggles and triumphs. The awesome co-hosts for the June 4 posts can be found here . I know: I’m late. Here is my take on June's discussion.  Out of the books I had to read in highschool (one per year, at most) and college, Herman Hesse's Siddhartha and Agaguk  opened my mind to other philosophies and ways of life.  Later, as I entered the working life at 20 years old, I discovered I could travel through books while  facing a new challenge for me:  communicating in English, and with unknown (for me) cultures at work. Through Romain Gary/Émile Ajar's Life Before Us and Amitav Gosh's The Circle of Reason , I found out my trips will always involve getting to know a community and its pe...

Some common fears writers share are rejection, failure, success, and lack of talent or ability.  What are your greatest fears as a writer? How do you manage them? I am posting this one one month later than expected. Better late than never, as we say. The first Wednesday of each month is officially Insecure Writer’s Support Group day. As members of this community, we post on our own blog our thoughts, talk about our doubts, the fears we have conquered, and we our struggles and triumphs. The awesome co-hosts for the May 7 posting of the IWSG were:  Feather Stone,   Janet Alcorn,   Rebecca Douglass, Jemima Pett,   and  Pat Garcia Judgement Comparing my work to others. In fact, I am always afraid of the others' judgment, and afraid to feel demolished by a comment. I was sure I was not an artist, although I was crafting, writing, creating and making stuff... I used to see every creation as less nice and cute than the artists in my family. I thought I  could...