How to overcome fear of a clean slate

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How to mentally prepare yourself for the fakaps and protect yourself from the writer's block


 Almost every author experiences a paralyzing inner fear and panic over failure.  A little moral preparation and five questions will help to avoid or mitigate this condition.
 If you are determined to write the PERFECT text immediately: a novel, a story, a story, and so on - stop and change your mind.  Believe me, fakap is good.  Fakapy is a component and inevitable part of our life.  This does not mean that we must immediately surrender without a fight.  No, just allow the very thought of the possibility of failure and lower the bar for overstated requirements for yourself and the text.  If you feel that panic and inner tension are paralyzing your will and actions, breathe and do the exercise.
 Take 15 minutes.  Answer the questions in writing, follow the reaction to them.

 The questions are:

  • What happens if I do not finish the text?
  • What will happen if I do not achieve my goal?
  • What happens if I hate the result of work?
  • What will happen if the end result is not at all what I expected?
  • What happens if I finish the job and it fails in the end?

 Skidding on?  Repeat one more time.  Presented a fakap?  Drowned?  Have you felt sorry for yourself?  Now get to work.  Write!

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