I'm just about the most anxious person I know, both clinically and in terms of my normal personality. I've managed to write 600,000 words in the past two years, and here's how I did it.
1.) Try warm-up writing. Write about silly things like what you want to have for dinner and what you'd do if you won a million dollars. This gets your brain working and your fingers moving, even if you write: "I am anxious, I am anxious, I am anxious," over and over again. At least for me, what happens is that my brain gets itching to write the actual story, and I do.
2.) If you're stuck on something in the beginning of the novel, try working on another scene you're sure about. I skip around a lot. Sometimes I'll write snippets of the end first. This is especially easy if you have an outline. Harder if you don't know the whole plot.
3.) You can always make notes to yourself in the manuscript: "I'm cutting this scene in editing. This part needs to go at the end. I'm changing the main character's name to Lord Moldybutt." Bold them so you can come back to them later. That way you won't have worry about forgetting. Then you can just move on.
4.) If you know what you want to write, talk yourself through it in the document. In the simplest language possible, describe to yourself what you want to happen. "OK, so I want Lord Moldybutt to get caught stealing his neighbor's palm tree. He'll have it under his arm when the porch light comes on, and then the neighbor will be like: "Stop, jerk!" And he'll be like: "Oh, crap."
I hope this, or other suggestions, will help you. Good luck!
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1.) Try warm-up writing. Write about silly things like what you want to have for dinner and what you'd do if you won a million dollars. This gets your brain working and your fingers moving, even if you write: "I am anxious, I am anxious, I am anxious," over and over again. At least for me, what happens is that my brain gets itching to write the actual story, and I do.
2.) If you're stuck on something in the beginning of the novel, try working on another scene you're sure about. I skip around a lot. Sometimes I'll write snippets of the end first. This is especially easy if you have an outline. Harder if you don't know the whole plot.
3.) You can always make notes to yourself in the manuscript: "I'm cutting this scene in editing. This part needs to go at the end. I'm changing the main character's name to Lord Moldybutt." Bold them so you can come back to them later. That way you won't have worry about forgetting. Then you can just move on.
4.) If you know what you want to write, talk yourself through it in the document. In the simplest language possible, describe to yourself what you want to happen. "OK, so I want Lord Moldybutt to get caught stealing his neighbor's palm tree. He'll have it under his arm when the porch light comes on, and then the neighbor will be like: "Stop, jerk!" And he'll be like: "Oh, crap."
I hope this, or other suggestions, will help you. Good luck!