Are you afraid that you'll lose it?

Do you ever get the thought that you'll lose your talent for writing?
I get that all the time. I get very insecure as I plan to make a career out of it; and I constantly need to get myself reassured that I haven't lost it.
Whenever I don't write a story or a poem for a long time I almost panic!
Sometimes I force myself to write but of course that doesn't help as a story without any inspiration is empty.
I just hope that this fear of mine is completely baseless.

Bless you. People get better at writing over time.

I'm terrified that I'll lose it! I can totally sympathize! Its been a while since I've written and I'm so scared that I won't be able to write again!

You should avoid writing completely. It's like when you get a dream saying that your going to be in a car crash and die, so you move to Amish country. It's a great idea, if I do say so myself.

I'd say it was baseless, but I can empathize with how worrying it must feel!
Inspiration tends to have a mind of it's own. It strikes whenever it feels like, in no logical pattern whatsoever. There's no need to worry when you haven't had any for a while, 'cause it could well strike twice a day next week. But it's not something that fades away- unless you completely change as a person and become cynical and unimaginative. But I don't think that's very likely!

I can't really empathise at the moment cause I have like ten ideas a week. However when I was eight I got worried cause I didn't have any inspiration until I was like ten. I f you really are a good writer then you'll always have your imagination it will just go away sometimes.

I never feel that way. It's impossible.

Because I'm afraid I'll never get it to begin with!

I get that fear on any vacation. I love writing enough that I write when I shouldn't (say, in the middle of a test), but if I'm stuck in a hotel room, out of town, anywhere outside of my average schedule, I can't write. I can't write, I can't edit, I can't read, I can't do anything! I just goof around, and don't do anything, then I get a shakey start when the vacation ends. Eventually, I pick it up again, but I just lose all my thoughts within a vacation. But so far, it hasn't completely disappeared, so I can't say I expect it ever will. But the fear will always hang around.

Yes.

I think whatever talent I may have originally had-- if I ever had any, I lost before I came to YWS, and frankly, I have no confidence in my writing, which is why I never post on here.

I never had it. XD

I had it my middle school years, but initially upon entering High School I seemed to had lost it. I gained it back my Junior year of High School. And now I am living it.

At least I hope.

Its amazing so many people feel the same way as i do!