What is stopping you from writing?

[AussieSim]

• Mumsnet

- DS
- The sheer enormity of it
etc etc
- good excuses ...

[spacemonkey]

NO TIME ... !

[Heathcliffscathy]

mumsnet. lack of inspiration sometimes. fear. procrastination.

[coppertop]

At the moment - ds2. Everytime I sit down to write he grabs my pen and either runs off with it or scribbles all over the paper. Giving him his own makes absolutely no difference. If I use the computer instead he presses all the keys and tries to switch it off!

I've managed 3 of the exercises so far. I've started no.4 but it's not easy when you have to keep stopping to referee fights and act as general slave to 2 small boys. Oh well...

[goosey]

Probably self-criticism and lack of self-motivation. I've really enjoyed getting stuck into these exercises, but I'm not very good at making up plots for stories. If I had a good plot in my mind then I think that would be the impetus for an obsession with a novel and neglect of my family until it was completed.
Any tips for plot planning anyone? Or do you just make it all up as you go along?

[Janstar]

Still thinking about it

[AussieSim]

Goosey, Stephen King plots his books from a 'What if ...' statement. Like, What if a woman was so busy on MN that she didn't notice that her husband didn't come home from work? Or maybe something more tension filled.

[papillon]

Spirtual threads
not knowing where to start
major slackness

[ponygirl]

Me. Fear of failure. Lack of time. General laziness.

[Thomcat]

• exhaustion

-lack of time
- don't know if i can

[mummytojames]

a baby do i need another

[celandine]

Constant procrastination.

Never seem to have more than an hour's real free time a day and then I'm feeling so lazy that it's easier to watch tv or read.
Also, a frustrating feeling of perfectionism in that I want things I write to be witty, informative, engaging, amusing etc, and the pressure to write something to that standard kind of puts me off a little!

Daytimes are tricky cos of entertaining 9 month old ds but if we didn't have a tv I reckon I would write more in the evenings. Listen to me blaming everything else... I guess my reasons are mostly down to lack of self-discipline to be consistent. I need to be inspired

[SenoraPostrophe]

lack of time.

and mumsnet.

[lemonice]

End of year
tomorrow tomorrow
dgs
disorganisation

[popsycal]

lack of ideas.....
not strictly true - lots of ideas but none of them coherent or linked!

Oh and mumsnet