I am Stuck in an Eternal Abyss of not Being Able to Write, and it's Scaring Me.

Writing shouldn't be this hard. All it is, is choosing the right words to string together in order to make some kind of sense to anyone outside of your own mind. Plan, plot, write, thats usually the process, right? You think of something, you plan it, and then you go for it. But what if it doesn't work that way, what if you just can't?

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I have been published (sort of)

I have been working on a novel for the past year or so, and although I have written thousands of things before, this is one of the first things I have actually been confident about finishing. I am not going to go into too much detail about it, I don't want to bore you or anything, but I just wanted to share a little part of it with you. When I say a little part, I mean a quote.

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Due to the confidence I felt over the piece, I decided to enter one of the chapters into an anthology competition, where a team of people would read through all of the entries and decide on which ones that they wanted to publish. As the weeks went by I had let copious amounts of self doubt build up inside of me, so imagine shock when I received an email to say that they wanted to publish it. In fact, I almost deleted the email without even reading it, as I was sure it was going to be a rejection, lucky for me that I didn't.

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