I was kicking ass on my fanfair until I hit the point where I was facing *gulp* smut.
It took TWO WEEKS to write ~1 page. I whined, I websurfed, I looked for any kind of distraction because I was completely 100% certain I wasn't going to be able to do it. Some people advised me to skip ahead and keep going, some people advised me to just write and let my beta sort it out later. I ended up powering through (but, again, 2 weeks effectively lost to it) and I STILL feel I haven't completely gotten my feet back under me.
Currently, I'm kinda doing a hybrid. I'm starting to work on the end, knowing I've got a good chunk of middlebits that still need to be filled in before I can consider the draft done. Just doing what's easy, I guess, as a reward to myself for getting over it.
So, anxiety is my problem, and a carrot/stick is my means of accomplishing?
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I was kicking ass on my fanfair until I hit the point where I was facing *gulp* smut.
It took TWO WEEKS to write ~1 page. I whined, I websurfed, I looked for any kind of distraction because I was completely 100% certain I wasn't going to be able to do it. Some people advised me to skip ahead and keep going, some people advised me to just write and let my beta sort it out later. I ended up powering through (but, again, 2 weeks effectively lost to it) and I STILL feel I haven't completely gotten my feet back under me.
Currently, I'm kinda doing a hybrid. I'm starting to work on the end, knowing I've got a good chunk of middlebits that still need to be filled in before I can consider the draft done. Just doing what's easy, I guess, as a reward to myself for getting over it.
So, anxiety is my problem, and a carrot/stick is my means of accomplishing?