I’ve been doing some research lately about phobias. I’ve got a couple that I’m sure a lot of people share:
Heights (boring).
Giant black beetle waking me up from a sound sleep to find it inches from my face then making a sound like it’s sharpening its claws. (is that just me?)
Of course, that’s just the generalized phobias. When it comes to my chosen profession, that’s a different story.
Clocks or time- Chronophobia.
Hmm, close, but no cigar. Mine is Deadlinephobia. Oh, yeah. Especially when my story is giving me grief, I get the flu or I’ve overbooked myself.
Coitus- Coitophobia.
Well, not doing it. Writing about it. Would that be Graphocoitophobia?
Computers or working on computers- Cyberphobia
You can’t imagine the lengths I’ll go to sometimes not to sit down at the desk. I’ve actually cleaned my house. No. Really.
Mad, becoming- Lyssophobia.
Ooops, too late.
Opinions- Allodoxaphobia
Everyone else’s of course. Unless they love my book, then I’m fine.
Pleasure, feeling- Hedonophobia
I must have this one, right? Or else why would I torture myself day after day, worrying about the books? The reviews? The copy edits? Oh, wait, that’s just writing. Never mind.
Words- Logophobia or Verbophobia
The wrong ones. They totally suck.
Work- Ergophobia or Ponophobia
Well, duh.
Writing- Graphophobia
To be honest, not every day. And when it’s good, it’s very, very good. So Graphophobia-lite.
There are some that don’t have names – yet
Ohnococoaphobia – Running out of M&Ms in the middle of a scene
Crapmypagesphobia – power outage just before the backup
Hereitisagainaphobia – repeating myself in a book
Badcommaphobia – knowing I’ve put the commas in all the wrong places
And perhaps the biggest phobia of all -
Holyshitmyassaphobia – accidentally seeing the size of my ass when I walk past a mirror
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LOL! How about:
Itsduewhenaphobia – fear of missing a deadline
or
synopsisiscrapophobia – fear an editor will reject your book on the fact that your synopsis is lousy
and of course there’s aracnophobia – fear a small spider will crawl across your keyboard while you’re trying to write
The last five I am WAY too familiar with!
Is there one for fear of running out of something to read? Librodroughtophobia?
alreadygotaphobia: fear that manuscript you’ve been slaving over for a year will be rejected on the basis that Bestselling Author surprised everyone by departing from her genre of choice and handing in an eerily similar story just hours before you
Which is closely associated with
brainrapeophobia: fear that people who write faster than you do are telepathically surveilling you and stealing your ideas
sephoraphobia: fear that the one day you don’t put on makeup and tame the bedhead, the hunky UPS driver will show up with a surprise delivery requiring a signature
owowowophobia: fear that your leg pelt has reached the stage that no mere razor can conquer it, leaving only wax rippage as an option
materinlawphobia — fear you mother-in-law will call while you’re working and attempt to guilt you into doing something that interrupts your writing time.
This is closely related to:
materphobia — which does the same thing, but carries a far, far higher guilt content.
felineflashphobia — fear your cat will attempt to gnaw on your flash drive as it extends from your laptop. (My grey and white monster just tried to do this.)
noslumberophobia – fear if the kids don’t shut and go to sleep you are going to lose your precious writing time
Lifusinterupusophobia – when you have to stop writing because you have to go to that stupid place called WORK
overloadaphobia – when you have too many ideas running around your head and can’t sleep.
gnatbladderophobia – where the coffee you are living on kicks in and you have to run and pee every 10 seconds
LMAO! Those are great Jo!
Ah… it’s good to know my fear of running out of M&Ms while in the middle of a scene has a name. Here I thought I was just suffering from cocoa addiction.
LOL! I definitely have the last one. I’m pretty sure someone snuck in and replaced my bum with a larger model. *ggg*
OMG – I have all of these! LOL!!!!
LMAO, too. You’ve nailed them, Jo! Perfect.
What about…
Titleaphobia – a category writer’s fear that the marking department will decide the word baby or billionaire must be added to your title.
Jo — Crapmypagesphobia – power outage just before the backup
I can actually solve this one for you.
The magic phrase is “uninterruptible power supply” or UPS. My husband and I each have a big, clunky box under our desk and they’ve saved us any number of times. When the power goes wonky, whether it’s a full outage or just a blip, there’s a split-second blink — both visual and aural, since the monitor blinks and you can also hear your system go silent for like a tenth of a second — and then everything just keeps going. Since I started using this thing I’ve never lost anything at all to a power outage. You can get one that’ll keep you going for ten or fifteen minutes for less than a hundred bucks, which means you have time to actually finish your paragraph before saving and shutting everything down. No one whose job depends on their computer should be without one. Get one. Now! Shoo! 
And I’ll add:
Nomencopraphobia — fear that every title I think of is crap and I’ll have to send my next six stories out as [Title] by Angela Benedetti. I hate thinking of titles, seriously, and I hardly ever come up with anything until it’s time to hit [Send] on a story.
ADDFabulaphobia — the fear that I won’t be able to stick with one story until it’s done, but instead will keep starting new stories. Seriously, I have a deadline on the 19th and I’ve started three stories in the last week, each one more appropriate for that particular submission call than the last. [headdesk] The upside of this one is that it’s sort of like biorhythms and at some point I’ll also finish a bunch of stories bam-bam-bam and that feels pretty good. For now, though, it’s really frustrating.
Angie
OMG, too funny! Love the last one the best.
ROTFLMAO – Loved this! It made my day (or,I should say, night).
I would have to say I’ve got some form of all of them, especially the last one!
Killthecarrierphobia—fear of the urge to take out the mailman whenever he delivers a large brown return envelope.
InsertpegAintoslotBphobia—the fear that it’s been so long since you had sex you don’t remember how to write it.
Phonophobia – the fear of actually being in a position to talk to an agent on the phone.
I love all of these. Maybe you should collect a huge list of phobias and publish it!
LOL
Dottie Reyes
Okay, I’ve added “Ergophobia Support” to my in-house sig line here at the day job.
It’s more subtle-erer than my current header: “Memo from the Department of Redundancy Department Memo” so it’ll be hailed as an improvement.
Loved these. Am a victim of most.
LOL – this reminds me of Lucy and Charlie Brown!