Tag: fear
Posted on November 26, 2018
by Catherine Austen
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I posted a motivational blurb on the SCBWI Canada East website today, about slogging it through the last days of November’s novel-writing challenge. I have never actually made the NaNoWriMo journey, meaning I’ve never done a start-to-finish draft in the month of November. I’ve…
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Category: writing, writing procesTags: books, Canadian writers, children's books, children's novels, creative process, discipline, fear, inspiration, motivation, nanowrimo, novels, orca book publishers, procrastination, revising, walking backward, word count, writers, writing, writing practice
Posted on October 1, 2018
by Catherine Austen
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It’s the first day of Inktober. Illustrators know this. The rest of us might not — but we should, all of us. Because Inktober is awesome. And it’s for everyone. Inktober began in 2009, by artist Jake Parker, as a challenge to improve drawing skills…
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Category: art, illustration, writingTags: creative process, daily practice, discipline, drawing, fear, illustrators, ink, inktober, learn to draw, october, picture books, procrastination, writing
Posted on February 27, 2014
by Catherine Austen
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Life got busy and I missed a week of blogging. That never had any effect before Fearless February, but now I’m many phobias behind. Let’s catch up quickly: 20. Public Spaces can be terrifying because they are full of people and maybe even zombies…
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Category: fearless february, phobias, writingTags: 28 tricks for a fearless grade 6, chorophobia, fear, fear of colors, fear of dancing, fear of dentists, fear of dolls, fear of going to bed, fear of sharks
Posted on February 19, 2014
by Catherine Austen
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Chronomentrophobia. The fear of clocks. No, I don’t mean the Cold Play song. I mean the thing the mouse ran up. This unusual phobia is not to be confused with Chronophobia, the fear of time (which is much too hard to get your head…
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Posted on February 18, 2014
by Catherine Austen
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Acrophobia. The fear of heights. If you have this common phobia, you don’t want to live here: You don’t want to walk on this street: And just looking at these old construction photos makes you queasy: Acrophobia can hit you at any time in…
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Posted on February 17, 2014
by Catherine Austen
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Ophidiophobia. The fear of snakes. Like Arachnophobia, the fear of spiders, and Apiphobia, the fear of bees, Ophidiophobia is a rational fear gone mad. A few snakes are deadly poisonous. And all snakes will bite if you try to pick them up. But that’s…
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Posted on February 16, 2014
by Catherine Austen
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Aichmophobia. The fear of sharp or pointy things. Now, how could anyone develop this weird phobia? The Rx? Change your viewing habits. Have a fearless day.
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Posted on February 15, 2014
by Catherine Austen
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Apiphobia. The fear of bees. We’ve all seen Apiphobics at sidewalk cafes, knocking over wine glasses as they frantically wave their arms and shriek because a bee has flown close. If that’s the extent of your phobia, thanks for entertaining the rest of us….
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Posted on February 14, 2014
by Catherine Austen
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Xocolataphobia. The fear of chocolate. I’m not going to write much about this one. I don’t have it, I’ve never met anyone who has it, and I’m not sure how it would manifest itself: breaking into a sweat when you pass a Laura Secord?…
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Posted on February 14, 2014
by Catherine Austen
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Brontophobia and Astraphobia. The fear of thunder and lightning, respectively. These two phobias usually go together, often combined with Lilapsophobia, the fear of tornadoes and hurricanes. (It’s not often someone is afraid of thunder but totally cool with tornadoes.) We’ll call them all Astraphobia….
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Posted on February 12, 2014
by Catherine Austen
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Sciurophobia. The fear of squirrels. Are you serious? While some of us are charmed by these little cuties, others can’t get past the orange teeth and fleas. If you suffer from Sciurophobia, your skin crawls and you just want to die when a squirrel…
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Posted on February 11, 2014
by Catherine Austen
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Mysophobia. The fear of being contaminated by germs. It’s what Howard Hughes, Howie Mandell, Saddam Hussein and Joan Crawford had in common. (And probably the only thing they had in common.) Ever since Louis Pasteur discovered the germ theory of disease, humans have cleaned…
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