"Fear is at the root of most bad writing."

Stephen King talks about how "Fear is at the root of most bad writing." I actually think that that's very true. You can tell when writing is forced, and you can tell when writing is written with passion.

I think that when people are scared to write, scared of how the reader us going to view them, self-conscious and weak about it, it shows in their writing. Everything seems just really forced, the sentence structures, the description, the plot, and even the theme. But when a person writes just for the heck of it, because it's what they love to do, that's when it's good writing.