What is stopping you from writing?

[AussieSim]

• Mumsnet

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

NO TIME ... !

mumsnet. lack of inspiration sometimes. fear. procrastination.

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...

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?

Still thinking about it

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.

Spirtual threads
not knowing where to start
major slackness

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

• exhaustion

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

a baby do i need another

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

lack of time.

and mumsnet.

End of year
tomorrow tomorrow
dgs
disorganisation

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

Oh and mumsnet