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I constantly run into two problems, the first being that I keep thinking that there’s an easy remedy, a secret sauce. There isn’t. I need to remind myself that it takes actual work. The second is that I expect myself to churn out a thousand words in fifteen minutes. Have you ever done 60 words per minute, thinking up the words yourself? I think not. (Don’t we all wish.) I need to just set it in my mind to do the first one hundred words. Actually, there’s a third. I keep thinking that, ‘Hey! I finished a 50,000 word novel. I must be the best writer ever!’ Actually, there’s a fourth, too. I keep thinking that I have plenty of time to get my writing done. I end up going to bed with nothing done because of this mindset.