Writer's Fallout Shelter

I'm AngelCelestine, and I believe I'm still considered a newbie here at WDC. ::can't remember when she joined... is a dork::

I'm working on a couple of novels, independent of each other (well, one novel, and then one novel that is going to be the first in a series of novels, dang it), and I have two major issues.

1) I seem to have some difficulty getting from beginning to end, from point A to point B to C and on down the line. I think I have helped myself on this a bit by actually writing out plot outlines (or seven pages front and back of handwritten summarization...), but every so often I still come across a point where I say to myself: "Okay, you've gotten them this far, now how to you move them along to the next part?"

2) I am afraid of writing. O.o Insane, I know, but I seem to have this fear of failure that keeps me from even trying. It's been so constantly and brutally pounded into all our idealist heads that writing isn't worth it, that very few writers ever really become successful, it seems like it's not even worth it to try.

Perhaps, it seems, issues one and two are linked. Anyone have any thoughts?

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