Fear in the creative process rarely looks like fear.
It looks like revising the same piece for the fourth time. It looks like starting something new before the last thing is finished. It looks like calculating every possible outcome before you take the first step.
What is actually happening is simpler. You are trying to stay ahead of where the work is taking you.
Creation has always worked this way. You begin with a vision. The process reveals something you did not plan for. The work changes. You change. That is the creative process doing exactly what it was designed to do.
So the friction is not between starting or finishing work. It is between trusting what the process reveals and needing to control what it produces.
One of those moves the work forward. The other keeps it exactly where it is.
The process of creating will many times, take you somewhere you did not calculate.
Reflection:
What is one thing you have been creating that you already know the ending to? What would happen if you let the process show you something different?
THIS WEEKS CHALLENGE:
Pick one thing you have been revising or holding back. Give yourself a deadline of 72 hours to finish it or release it as is. It doesn’t have to be perfect, but make it done.