Stop procrastinating, start writing
“Remember it’s far harder and more painful to be a blocked artist than it is to do the work.” Julia Cameron.
Today, I was struggling with my writing. I’m the nearest I’ve ever been to finishing a novel. (I have two novels and three screenplays nearly finished….)
I know that this is the part of the process, many of us may want to give in, give up and pack up our pens.
For as we start to turn the corner onto the finishing straight, we can get very scared and our old fears can come back to haunt us and we can find ourselves resorting to old sabotage patterns.
As I struggled to switch the computer on, I found an old post about procrastination…..
Are you procrastinating…?
You may be harbouring fearful thoughts such as:
- This is no good.
- Who am I kidding?
- Who is going to read this s**t?
- I’m not going to embarrass myself by showing this to anyone.
- I’ve completely been wasting my time and energy for the past 6 months.
- I can’t write
You know you are sabotaging when:
- You are too busy to write a minimum of 100 words a day.
- You find yourself watching successful authors being interviewed by Richard and Judy rather than writing.
- You clean the house/drink tea/read magazines/walk the dog/rearrange your sock drawer rather than write.
- Say yes to everything and suddenly get ‘too busy to write’.
- Create a big drama in your life.
- Get over-involved in the dramas of others.
Ok, so I’m procrastinating!!!
But the new term of The Big Writing Club is about to start with lots of new writers coming to talk to us about how to get back to the page.
We start 5th October with award-winning novelist Lucy Atkins, author of The Missing One and The Other Child talking to us about how to not only start a novel, but finish one too!
