Books·Posted on Aug 31, 201519 Fears That Plague All Writers"I hate writing, I love having written." —Dorothy Parker, and also youby Alex AlvarezBuzzFeed StaffLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Sitting in front of a blank page and feeling nothing. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 2. Legitimately not being sure if what you've written came from you or was something you'd read before. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 3. Sharing your writing with other people. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 4. And, then, the torture of having to watch people AS they read your work. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 5. People asking you to explain your jokes. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 6. Reading over your work and feeling like you're a giant garbage machine. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 7. Setting aside time to write and then spending that time watching Netflix and googling pictures of llamas. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 8. Turning on some music to write to and then having a dance session instead of writing. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 9. Dreaming up the perfect story arc, character, or line...and then promptly forgetting it upon waking. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 10. Your work disappearing because technology is out to get you. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 11. Becoming trapped in a simile you can't escape, like a sea captain going down with his ship and also the ship is your heart. 12. Staring at a single word so long that it begins to look incredibly strange, like something you might've just made up. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 13. Beginning a sentence with no idea of where it's going or how to end the sentence because you were trying to make a point that a sentence is... Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 14. Reading an author's work and then not being able to help writing in that author's voice. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 15. Worrying you're actually not much of a writer. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 16. Killing your darlings. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 17. Struggling to find the perfect word. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 18. Rereading something you thought was amazing and realizing it's a little closer to TERRIBLE. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 19. Acknowledging that 90% of writing...is rewriting. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF ...But knowing it's all worth it. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF