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Afraid of Starting the New Chapter?

January 16th, 2008

I really don’t know what’s going on. I’m having such a horrible time getting Chapter 10 started. I keep trying to find excuses to not start writing. Like right now. I opened up my Chapter 10 file, took one look at it, and what am I doing? I’m writing this blog entry.

One reason, I think, may be fear of screwing up. What do I mean? Well, I can see two obvious options for Alex. Option 1 could end up revealing too much too soon for the plot. Option 2 would have her go somewhere else, but there’s not much she would or could do there that would further the plot. There is a third option, but it’d be far-fetched. And I just thought of a fourth possibility. It could work, though it takes me in a direction I hadn’t really thought about. Hm. Maybe I should give that a try.