Ack…I started my new book with gusto a few days ago (after a few months of chronic procrastination) but after 3,500 words I’ve now come to a crashing halt. It’s just a teensy bit frustrating because I know people are waiting for it and I’ve had a few emails recently asking if people can sign up for a preview (how cool is that?!?) – that’s one reason I got going with it in the first place.
Firstly I struggled with the structure of it and just couldn’t get going – and now I’ve got “empty chapter” paralysis…I can see the empty chapters waiting to be written and just can’t muster the effort to fill them with words. It’s not like it’s going to be as long as the first one – it’s going to be much shorter and sweeter than that but that’s still long enough.
Anyhoo, I’m hoping that a glass of bubbly will start the writing flow…it usually seems to help me twitter!
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I am so glad that I am not the only person with this problem!
Hey,
You could start with jotting down some notes on the points you won’t write about in each chapter. At the same time listen to yourself and you might begin to hear all the things you do want to write about. You never know, the reverse psychology trick might work!
@Lissie – I think there’s probably an army of us!!
@Greg – that’d be far too much like hard work! I know what I want to say, I’m just being too lazy to sit down and write it all out at the moment!! Now if only I had someone who would write it for me… ;-)
Good post. You make some great points that most people do not fully understand.
“Ack…I started my new book with gusto a few days ago (after a few months of chronic procrastination) but after 3,500 words I’ve now come to a crashing halt. It’s just a teensy bit frustrating because I know people are waiting for it and I’ve had a few emails recently asking if people can sign up for a preview (how cool is that?!?) – that’s one reason I got going with it in the first place.”
I like how you explained that. Very helpful. Thanks.