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[cathubodva.livejournal.com]

Is anyone else struggling with a diagnosed generalized anxiety disorder and trying to do NaNo? How about completely paralyzed by plot holes? I was stuck on a particular part of my novel last night so when I went to bed I made the mistake of talking about it with MY STUPID HUSBAND, hoping he would help talk me through it. Instead (completely unintentionally, I know... he doesn't quite get that NaNo is supposed to be quantity over quality) he pointed out all of my OTHER plot holes.

Now that anxiety disorder is kicking in, the same one that makes all other decisions impossible, and I'm really struggling to write a single word.

What do you do to get past it?

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[flavour-of-nano.livejournal.com]

I keep a seperate file from the one I'm writing in where I make brief notes of everything I need to fix or change. Having written them down somewhere seems to enable me to pretend I've already fixed them, or at least that I won't forget them when I got back to edit after NaNo. It slows me down a bit but it really helps.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

This is a good idea. During my first two years, I actually highlighted anything in my novel that I felt I needed to go back and fix or change, and that freed me to keep moving on. I should try that again.