The blank page #sortofamwriting

Things I do when putting off writing:
Netflix
Reading to be “productive” and review
Book promotion to be “productive”
Facebook
Twitter
Blogging about not writing…

This is what I find so daunting:

It’s not that I don’t have ideas for what to write, because I do.  I’ve known for some time that I want to do prequel/spin-off short stories that tie in with my book series.  I’ve had one particular character’s story rolling around in my head, and I pretty much know everything I want to say.  I NEED to get it on paper.

It’s not that I don’t have an itch to write, because I do.  I took a break after writing the final book in my series to branch out and do some other things (real life included).  Now, enough time has gone by that I have the bug again.  I want to spend hours and hours on this weird little hobby – writing fiction.

However… It’s been forever since I’ve started from a completely blank page.  That blinking little cursor with nothing on either side of it, that naked slate, is so weird to me that it’s a little intimidating.  For The Kota Series Books 1-4, I had notes and drawings and even Word docs on floppy disks (ask your parents if you don’t know what those are, kids).  Now, even if I’m doing a kind of spin-off, I’m starting with completely new information.  A completely new story.  A completely blank page.

Soooooo… We’ll see how this goes.