Writing Through My Fear

Kelly Burns
5 min readJun 28, 2021

I struggle with letting myself be seen.

Woman with blue eyes hiding behind green foliage and looking directly at the camera. Her face is partially covered with greenery. Her eyes look turquoise blue. She has dark brown eyebrows.
Photo by Alex Iby on Unsplash

I don’t like being seen.

But words are a roadmap to the human heart. It is easy to see a person’s intent on the page. You can tell with only a few sentences where a person is coming from. Sometimes this terrifies me. But it also inspires me. I am moved by my fellow writers who seem to put it all out there with no stone unturned.

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Kelly Burns

writer and sometimes singer/composer & painter. Italian-American. INFP. I write fiction and nonfiction. www.kellyburns.com