The Steven Bradbury of Writing

It has been one of the those weeks.  A week where I haven’t enjoyed writing.  Where I have felt discouraged.  Where I felt overwhelmed with the fact that there is no way to know for sure that I will ever get published.  Where I read a great book and wonder how I think I can ever compete?  Where the idea of handing work to my writing group makes my fingers shake above the keyboard?

When I first started writing I followed a pattern:

• Write regularly for a while.
• Have one of those days where everything I wrote and everything I read that I had wrote seemed awful.
• Stop writing for two months out of discouragement.
• Open the document again and decide maybe it isn’t that bad.
• Write regularly for a while.
• And repeat…

And surprise, surprise, I never got my novel done.

I know that every writer feels this way…