1. You must write.
2. You must finish what you start.
3. You must refrain from rewriting except to editorial order.
4. You must put it on the market.
5. You must keep it on the market until sold.

But it clearly seems that when I get out of my own way with my writing, my subconscious layers in all sorts of deep and meaningful stuff I don’t even think about. Go figure. And, of course, that’s how it has always been with writers. We write to entertain. It is up to others to figure out what we wrote.

It takes more courage to write and put the story out than it does to only talk about writing and not do it. You have to dare to fail sometimes.

Not finishing is failure.   So if you are having fear issues, move the fear over to not writing and not finishing. I can tell you this for a fact: The idea of not writing and not finishing what I write scares hell out of me. Get help with your fears, move the fear to a fear of not writing. And move the fear to a fear of not finishing. Because not writing and not finishing are true failures.