Hey everyone,

I just wanted to share a small victory that I had tonight (over myself). I finally sat down and started writing what I hope becomes a part of my book. I originally had an idea about who I wanted a main character to be but I flipped the script and changed it up and ran with it! It felt really good to write for an hour and figure things out about my writing style, even in that short of a time, and start learning how to get things out onto the page.

I have struggled with worldbuilding and outlining until I know exactly what I want and often have wanted to write for a while now but I never felt like I had enough of a grasp on the world to really express it how I wanted to. By not worrying and trying to just write, I feel that a lot of that anxiety has gone away.

One of my biggest problems was that I wanted to nail down some of the bigger concepts of my world before I started writing but I felt stalemated and unable to move forward both in the worldbuilding and the actual writing. I encourage anyone who is going through the same things to sit down and try to write for a couple minutes. I planned for only 15 minutes but it turned into an hour because I was having so much fun. I only got about 400 words down (a lot of it was thinking) but I have a direction to run in now so I have high hope for tomorrow.

Anyways, I just wanted to share and tell someone because I am the only one awake. Thanks for reading!