Here is the World.

Training yourself past the fear of ‘they’re going to laugh at me’ or ‘this will just get rejected anyway’ isn’t difficult–the habit of writing every day chips away, little by little, water over rock. it will never go away completely, because the fear’s telling you where the juicy bits are, the parts that other people will read with their hearts in their mouths, feeling that jolt of connection that we all want so badly.