Want to know what stops all of us in our tracks sometimes when we sit down to write?
Almost by accident, I just caught a great interview with writer Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love, among other things) on a podcast I listen to (not for kids, but you should listen – it’s hilarious; this was really the only serious part).
She had some incredibly profound things to say about creativity and fear, and on writing without a safety net (“I just jumped off the cliff…” – it starts around 43 minutes into the podcast)
“What you have to understand always about anything creative and inventive is that creativity and fear are conjoined twins.

