Second Guessing

You know that feeling... when you tell somebody something that is really exposing to you? It's like getting out of the shower and realizing that there is a stranger standing there. That shiver that makes you feel naked, sitting there even clothed?

It's like someone has seen you in a state that you didn't want them to see? Like they know more about you than you intended on telling them?

I told somebody the story behind my novel today. Just bits and pieces, all of which were painfully exposing. And even hours later, that feeling of exposure and nakedness trails me.

So if by telling one person gives me that feeling... How am I going to feel making my story available for the world to see? Will that sort of exposure be healing or create some sort of permanent scar?

I have some thinking to do.