The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear Book

This started as an easy read, with me nodding along, and going "huh, that's /exactly/ it", then it started to poke into my head and began to dig deep whispering hard questions that I'm still trying to come to grips with, and before I knew it, I'd finished the book-- the second "writing" book I've ever managed to finish so far, and I have shelves full of 'em.

Anyone who has struggled to write, wondered why they subject themselves to the madness, and yet kept coming back as if unable to stop needs to read this book.

This is not so much of a how-to or a commentary, but a sort of chat with a fellow writer. A chat that reassures the solitary writer (the internet has helped in that regards, but when we're writing, it's really just the writer and that blank page) that they're not alone... and that courage (or the "chops") to write isn't a matter of fixing things so you're no longer afraid/struggling... it's to write through it. To sometimes embrace it. Or trick it. Maybe minimize it for a time. But really, to acknowledge that it's there...and that perhaps, it's /supposed/ to be there.