I'm experiencing a truly horrible kind of writer's block, and it's starting to drive me crazy.
I have a novel that's all planned, and ready to start writing. It's been ready for ages. But try as I might, I just can't seem to start!
I so badly want to write this book - it's a terrible yearning - but it's as though I'm scared of messing up the story which is here, fully formed, in my mind - as clear and detailed as a film.
I can see all the characters and settings and everything - I just can't get over my fear of the blank computer screen. It's like I have this fear of my new novel being less than perfect.
I've finished writing three novels (unpublished) so I know I CAN do it...but I'm worried I won't be able to do it a fourth time.
I know that I should grant myself permission to mess up - especially in the first draft - but I am so scared I'll muck it up to the point where I lose all confidence.
I work in a secondhand bookshop, and I'm surrounded by wonderful fiction, which can be rather intimidating - maybe that's contributing to the problem!
I just wish I could stop being so scared! It's starting to drive me quite mad.
Please help me...
Thanks in advance,
Hafwen x
I have a novel that's all planned, and ready to start writing. It's been ready for ages. But try as I might, I just can't seem to start!
I so badly want to write this book - it's a terrible yearning - but it's as though I'm scared of messing up the story which is here, fully formed, in my mind - as clear and detailed as a film.
I can see all the characters and settings and everything - I just can't get over my fear of the blank computer screen. It's like I have this fear of my new novel being less than perfect.
I've finished writing three novels (unpublished) so I know I CAN do it...but I'm worried I won't be able to do it a fourth time.
I know that I should grant myself permission to mess up - especially in the first draft - but I am so scared I'll muck it up to the point where I lose all confidence.
I work in a secondhand bookshop, and I'm surrounded by wonderful fiction, which can be rather intimidating - maybe that's contributing to the problem!
I just wish I could stop being so scared! It's starting to drive me quite mad.
Please help me...
Thanks in advance,
Hafwen x