My next fear to face was sharing my creative work with a very critical friend before I'd been able to make sure it was perfect. I'm writing a fiction novel and am no where near being satisfied with it's state, but the writing of it needs outside input and I'd put off letting him read it for too long. So, despite my fear of him hating it and making me not want to continue working on the project, we had a reading of it. I did my best to not make comments about how I hated sections, or how it was horrible, etc. And I braced myself for his comments after we were through. I did tell him to go easy on me as this was a fear I was facing, and I think he did. But he had good things to say, which bolstered my confidence in the project, and he had some constructive criticism that will really help me in moving forward.
One thing I'm learning, lately, is to acknowledge that I can be my toughest critic and to not let that stop me from doing the work or sharing it with others. I have to look at things that have been created by others which have the same (or worse) faults than my own work and realize that I don't entirely suck like I've always let myself believe.
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