Feeling the Writing Blues

Yesterday, while attempting to work on my outline for NaNo, trying to figure out questions that I don't know the answers to, I felt the outline was rubbish. The story just doesn't seem as powerful as it does in my head. Then the despondency that it's all shit, and it's never going to get better, and even if I spend all the time writing the draft from the rubbish outline, it will still be flat. I am sure you know how it goes ...when one negative thought starts, the whole lot of them follow close behind. I still think the plot isn't good enough, and while a part of me is worried that I would never complete a book that is good enough, a logical part of me notes that I write much better now than the very draft I wrote many years ago. There is an improvement. It's just damned slow. Still hoping that I can make the plot good enough so that it won't ruin my excitement about writing the book for NaNo. I just wish I had picked a better time to get all frantic. Not long left now to change stuff, but let's see how it goes.

Coping with Writing Fear

I think most of us here are aware by now that becoming a published writer is not easy. Most of us have had our taste of rejection (I received one just this evening *sigh*), we have come across discipline issues, confidence issues, writers block, and I am sure there are many many other issues that different writers face. So here is a neat little post (and bit scary) about coping with writing fear. The scary bit is about facing difficulties as a "published author" - one does wish that difficulties would end once we get through the hurdle of being non-published. Have a read and let me know what you think