The fear you greet at every major threshold of your life is simply based on a fantasy of a danger that has not happened. Rather than stay frozen on the future, get out of your head.
Feel your body.
Seize this moment and write something, anything.
Keep moving.
Write through the fear.
Today, detach from the outcome and concentrate on putting one world after another on the page.
Forget the duality of good versus bad.
Marvel at the miracle of words appearing out of nowhere and you writing them on the page.
Replace fear with blind trust that you will be supported and that all is well.
Make the act of writing or whatever you do an act of love...
My last post was a bit harsh. I take it back. It is not necessary for a writer to have to go through all that.
In my own defense, my purpose here is to support writers achieve their dreams of completing a worthy project. So what about all those half-written stories that end up in the trash bin or at the bottom of a cabinet drawer? Not reaching it, our dreams hound us relentlessly. We never truly forget that which we long for.
People who have faced death say they do not think about the work they missed at the end but of family and friends. Really? Don't you think for even a moment your story might flash before your face and ask, what if?
How does a resistant writer make it all the way to the end?
I wish I could say with grace and splendor but my way is messier. Commit to your own hero's journey as your protagonist embarks on hers.
Learn as much about yourself through the process as you learn about your character.
Recognize the similarities.
Invite in the antagonists.
Ask for answers.
Push yourself.
See what happens.
I'm on the edge of my seat. Will she or won't she?
I left her last time right after she had written the Crisis. Euphoric for having faced every one of her own demons in order to send her protagonist to death -- metaphorically speaking, of course. Still, she wrote it and survived. An embarrassing mass of slop? Likely. All that matters now is getting the scenes written. Before we hang up last time, I gently coax her to face what is coming. She hears my words but does turn around and thus has no idea of the size of the mountain behind her still left to scale.
This time, when she calls, I hear it the minute she speaks. For the first time since we started working together and at the base of Climax Mountain, she hits a wall. Her voice has no energy. She sounds wary. Shell-shocked. Numb and filled with disbelief.
I scramble to assess the damage and uncover something quite unexpected.
From the time she left the middle of the Middle, I worried about her writing the scenes leading up to the Crisis around the 3/4 mark and the Crisis itself. I never even considered her real demons would hit at the End on the way up to the Climax.
Both the protagonist and the writer are drug addicts. The protagonist is killing herself because of her addiction. The writer is in recovery. Not, however, for long. "Two years," she told me. "This time." Having fought my own addictions, I shiver when I heard the second part of her answer. It implies there could be a next time.
Of course, the protagonist has to hit rock bottom at the Crisis. The fact the writer survived the writing of it herself is a tribute to her heart and her spirit.
Now what I think is happening is that because the writer herself has not experienced her own personal transformation fully nor seized her own personal power, she can't quite see the way for the protagonist here at the beginning of the End.
I encourage her to let the protagonist do what she needs to do (the writer knows exactly what she wants to happen at the Climax and thus has only to get her there for now).
Let go of trying to get in the character's head and body. Write purely action now.
Ask the protagonist to reveal herself to you as the powerhouse she can and must be.
Then let her loose, sit back and watch what comes...
Like I said, I'm on the edge of my seat.
The fear you greet at every major threshold of your life is simply based on a fantasy of a danger that has not happened. Rather than stay frozen on the future, get out of your head. 
Hi Plot whisperer. I have just written a rousing first chapter of my suspence YA novel but I'm not sure where to go from there. I'm great at thinking up an opening hook, but the rest slips through my fingers like dry sand. Today I've been researching conflict in an attempt to decide which direction to take now :O)
Ahhh, that hits the spot. Thanks yet again, Martha!
Hi Anne, Yay! so glad the post helped. Thanks for your feedback.
Madeleine, hope you'll view plot whisperer vlog (just recently learned that's what the youtube plot series really is: a vlog. http://www.youtube.com/user/marthaalderson#p/u/1/61QFdblwzNs
lots of steps to get you from "rousing 1st chapter" to The End, or so is my fervent wish...
Hello!
I just wanted to let you know that I'm really enjoying the Plotting Series on your YouTube channel, and it's helping me a lot with a stalled novel I've been working on for a long, LONG time!
Thank you. :)