Hi all,
I'm a well-known regular but I've created a new identity for the CW topics because I'm shy about my writing and I prefer to keep my MN persona and my writing persona separate.
I have had the bare bones of a novel (I suppose you'd call it chicklit) on the back-burner of my brain for years. I still believe completely in the plot, and think it has legs, but I can't seem to just start writing.
I have notebooks full of characters, timelines and most of the plot outline, (some of it in great detail) but it loses direction and purpose two-thirds of the way through and I don't know where to take it or how it ends.
The trouble is, because I'm a ridulous perfectionist, and an obsessive planner, I can't move forward and actually start writing the flipping thing until I know where it is going.
I know, I know, I just need to bash out some writing and hope it comes together as I go -but I feel paralysed, and clueless.
I can write on here for England, with nary a pause for breath, but as soon as I sit in front of the screen to write my book I become frozen with fear and my head empties! Help!
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AllTalkAndNoAction · 15/10/2010 14:40
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