u/Major_Cable_8079

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For the last six months I've been telling everyone I'm "in the planning phase." I have a notebook. I have a Pinterest board. I have voice memos to myself from 2am about what the magic system should do.

What I don't have is pages.

I sat down yesterday and forced myself to be honest about it. The planning isn't planning anymore. It's hiding. As long as I'm planning, the book is still perfect in my head. The second I start writing, it becomes whatever I can actually do, which is going to be worse than what I've been imagining for half a year.

I don't know how to get over this. I know the answer is just write the bad version. I keep not doing it, idk if this is me being honest or just having a mid-mid life crisis