Writing Passionates discussion

I'm trying to find a fear for one of my main characters, so if you don't mind, could you tell me some of your worst fears, so I can get a general idea? It's okay if you don't want to.

Ummm, unrealistic, but everyone around me dies and I'm all alone.

well, there's always the dark but that's a little cliché. um... let's see. what about that thing where a person hears about a disease and they automatically think they have it? let's see... what other fears can people have?... idk. railroad tracks? spiders? murderers? germs? these aren't my own fears, btw, i'm just thinking of some that could be used well in a story :)

claustrophobia maybe?

Oh yeah, I'm claustrophic. And afraid of heights. Thanks, you guys!

hypodermics. i hate needles so much. its like my worst fear, coupled with claustrophobia

being blind. Try explaining the story from someone who cannot see what is happening around them. Almost like facing monsters in the dark as a kid.

aah!!! needles!!! so scary... (shudder!!!)

I know, I hate them too!!

im afraid of......
1. CANCER or any other deadly sickness (cancer is my #1 top fear and then those other sicknesses are like 1 1/2)
2. Needles
3. Moving (its hard!!!)
4. DEATH
5. boys (lol. theyre just freaky no offence...........)
6. My siblings/parents dying
7. short books (not really but short books that are good but so totally short annoy me)
Thats my top 7 fears. Im sure i could think of more, but just thinking about those things freaks me out.... maybe i will think of more someother time......

oh and and 8. SPIDERS
9. Bees/hornets
10. When my computer busts and i cant email/get on goodreads/ type my latest story/do anything on the computer. That freaks me out!
kay now its top 10

Some of my characters have strange fears....namely Selemaphobia (fear of the moon) and fear of mirrors. But they all have good reasons....
I'm deathly afraid of heights. And POISON'S spiders. Don't mind others.
Someone I know hate snakes.

did you know that there is a phobia for the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth?

Really? LOL!!!!!

yeah, I forgot what it's called though...

there's a word for FEAR OF THE GREAT MOLE RAT... lol. there's like a website called phobia.com or something that has all the phobias in the world... some of them are really weird.

ooh, how about fear of being buried alive? that's an interesting one... i think edgar allen poe had that. lol. XD

Being burned alive isn't a realistic fear now...but it would have been during the salem witch trials...and I just got a good idea! somebody's ghost looks back on the days when they were alive, and then they were burned at the stake when they were 19 because they were a witch, and the accusation was actually right, but then she didn't know how to protect herself against fire yet and that is why she died!

or wait, weren't they hanged? but weren't they burned and drowned too?

Veronica it's called Arachibutyrophobia. What a mouthful. That came from our agenda.

no not BURNED alive; BURIED alive. !!!

theres a name for the fear of turning into a pumpkin.... but i cant remember it

There's a fear for fear of long words and it's like a loooong word something like hippoblahblahblahblahblahblahphobia

oh yeah... haha. it's ironic because it IS a long word. so your psychologist would be like, 'hmmm... i think you have hippoblablaphobia' and you'd be like 'AAAAAAAH!!!" lol.

there's this person i know who is afraid of psychologists, and to get over the fear, all she has to do is go to a psychologist, and by that time, she'll be over it. But she doesn't believe me.

Fear of turning into a pumpkin? You're kidding! Lol, that's funny!

no not kidding lets see its..... Apocolocynposis. isnt that funny!

somebody's watched cinderella too many times...

talk about it. lol i dont have it or anything, but i think it would be funny to have it. Haloween would be your worst nightmare

lol. i made this movie w/my friends once and someone got turned into a pumpkin. lol. it was funny...

ha ha ha. that sounds funny.

Lol Kenzie!! Wow, long name.

Edgar Allen Poe had a fear of water, Hydrophobia. Which proved even more that he had rabies!!

OMG Lol Acolocynposus. TEEHEE!!! I love how fear of long words is a long word. XD The thing is, do people actually HAVE these fears, or are they just made up as a possibility?

Oh and isn't it funny how LISP has an S in it. It's torture for people to say "I have a lisp!"

well, i know i wouldn't really want to turn into a pumpkin, but i know that i never will so i don't know if it would exactly be considered a fear of mine...

yeah. I mean, I wonder if there are people who go to their psychologists and say:

Psychologist: So, Mr. Brown, is there anything you are afraid of?
Mr. Brown: T-turning into a...a...p-pumpkin! *screams and starts bawling*
Psychologist: Ah, I see. Why do you fear this?
Mr. Brown: B-because pumpkins h..have crappy lives!! *cries again*

Yeah... a little strange...

pumpkins DO have crappy lives. they spend all that time growing just to be made into a jack o' lantern or a pie. or a carriage... hahaha.

lol...they may get lucky if cinderella's godmother comes along and chooses them to become one. XD then at least they dont get eaten

heehee XD

hee hee this is funny!

I'm listening.

My friend says she has a phobia of goldfish. NOt the fish, the cracker. Except I don't think it's as phobia, she's just afraid of them going down her shirt.

See, at lunch I had some goldfish...and I was tossing them for her to catch in her mouth. Well, I don't have very good aiming skills. The goldfish liked visiting her under shirt. It happened more than once at lunch.

shes afraid of them going down her shirt? huh. i dont think that thats a phobia..... lol

no not really... hahaha. that happens to me too, though. food going down my shirt, i mean. but i'm not exactly AFRAID of it

the fear of everything is panaphobia. I remember that from my school's announcements in 7th grade. The announcements last 20 minutes, and most of it is talking about sports and weather and weird facts. and the joke of the day. They actually shortened them a little bit, but instead of getting rid of the joke(which are WORSE than the ones on popsicle sticks and laffy tafy wrappers, I swear) they got rid of announcing birthdays! That was the one part of announcemets that I liked, besides the, you know, actual announcements!(which last between 1 and 4 minutes) Then I stopped caring about even those, and nobody even bothered to try to listen in my third hour. (that's when announcements are. It's weird.)

I didn't like announcements, except for getting the free time.

we like never have announcements at my school... we had more in middle school...
OMG, at my middle school we had this dumb thing called like... wow, what was it called? OH YEAH! The Constitution of Caring!!! lol. XD it was the dorkiest thing ever. and they read it during the announcements once a week, to remind us all to be nice to each other!! :p god, that was annoying.

The Constitution of Caring! OMG Thats so stupid!

at the end-ish of the year, we switched announcements to video. its okay and they can be really funny. but mostly its just real announcements, not like the constitution of caring. but our principal does some weird moral thing on mondays but i never listen XD
we get video announcements with great little skits that demonstrate like "dont steal" "dont bully"
there actually pretty good

haha. that sounds funny. XD

haha, i can still remember some of our school announcememnts and whatnot. we used to do it by video, but then a certain teacher moved and everyone else got lazy and we kinda gave it up....but for those few short years that we did the video, it was amasing. a few times, we had some puppets that would go thru the announcements, and then the usual rivalry between band and orchestra...not to mention a few mockeries stuffed in..of certain bald teachers, or those notorious ones who just need to b mocked...
and of course there's the usual crap that nobody listens to about being nice and all that...
but those were funny too. mostly because i question the sanity of those directing them...
i should try to get those things on youtube sometime...lol, then u could all see how my school was!

haha XD puppets! i luv puppets, they are so funny... last year my friends and i did all our spanish projects w/sock puppets. it was hilarious XD

hee hee XD

awesome!