This blog is to help the part of your that wants to write fool the part of you that doesn't want to write

Pardon the partial duplication from a post at Novel Goal, but I think it will make sense.

Why not combine Novel Goal and Novel Struggles?

First, a quotation from Maria Irene Fornes, a playwright:

"You must always keep changing your process. Because there are two of you, one who wants to write and one who doesn't. The one who wants to write has to keep fooling the one who doesn't."

Novel Goal is for the one of you who wants to write. This blog is for the one who doesn't want to write, to let that side talk and vent and get over it and for Pete's Sake get out of the way! And then help the one who wants to write figure out how to fool the one who doesn't.

We'll strategize and vent here.  In both places, we'll try to outrun the one who doesn't want to write.

Maybe I'll end up combining the two, but my initial vision is that Novel Goal is pure hope (and progress) and Novel Struggles is "is anyone else having this struggle?"

We can learn from each other, and fool that part that, for whatever reason -- fear, sabotage, laziness -- doesn't want to write.