Let’s go shopping! Wait, no. I’m not much of a shopper, either. I know, I know, among these ladies, I’m a heretic, but I really don’t get into shopping. Unless we’re talking about book shopping, but then I’m sure I’ve gone on about that before.

I have been working on a particular project for quite a while now. Most of the time, when I near the end of a book, I write faster. The end is in sight, the story’s wrapping up, and I can do a mad dash to the end.

Not so with this book, and I tell you what, it’s driving me nuts. I have achieved new heights of procrastination on this one. I would rather organize the clutter in my house than write another 500 words on this book. Why? I’m not entirely sure.

Maybe it’s rootless wandering. I do something between pantsing and plotting and usually when I’m stuck, that means I’ve gone in the wrong direction. But I’m not stuck. I know what I want to do, I just don’t want to put my butt in the chair and write it.

Maybe it’s fear of finishing. What will I do if I don’t have this project to fall back on? (Answer: One of the other seventeen projects I’m meant to be writing.) Maybe it’s fear of success?

Whatever it is, it’s got to end.

Does anyone else have this problem? How do you get through it?

4 Responses to “Writing is hard!”

1. Loribelle Hunt Says:
   April 5th, 2007 at 1:50 pm

   I’m having the same problem with the book I’m writing now, Sara. I think I’m just having a hard time getting back in the groove after my (loooong) holiday break from writing. I’m just pushing through. If I can get five pages a day, I’m happy.

2. Shelli Stevens Says:
   April 5th, 2007 at 9:47 pm

   I kind of do with one book I’m writing. I’ve been writing it for almost two years. And I can’t finish it. LOL. It’s the only time this has happened to me, this book.

3. Dayna_Hart Says:
   April 6th, 2007 at 2:24 am

   um. I have a sequel to write…but this OTHER story is calling my name. Seductive lil whispers of “I’m more fun. I’m more interesting.” And the sequel? it’s half finished. The sexual tensiony part is solid, and I can move on to the plot points that so excited me when I started it a few *aherm* months ago…when I stopped to write a monsterbook that caught me unaware…

   *sigh* so yeah, Amen sistah and all that jazz. Write on, is all I can say…write one, push through the contraction and get that baby out…

4. Crystal Jordan Says:
   April 9th, 2007 at 4:41 pm

   I have 800 projects in the works at all times. I’m insane. Stop the madness, Sara!