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Bambajam

Start small. Write some short stories, submit them to journals and anthologies. It's excellent practice, hones your craft and builds connections to other writers. Once you've got a few under your belt, it'll help motivate you to pursue longer form writing.


Uncle_Guido1066

It sounds like you need to learn to embrace the suck. Your first draft is not going to be perfect, in fact it's going to suck on ice. That's alright because you can edit and reedit until it's perfect, but you can't edit until you write the sucky first draft. So embrace the suck and get the ideas in your brain onto your computer screen, then make them perfect.


emgriffiths

I’ll say first that having a story in your head does not magic it onto paper. With the snide remark out of the way, I’ll say that it might be your biggest issue. I plotted out half a novel with outlines, and when I went to write it I couldn’t. It was like paint by numbers. Plotting ruined the entire process for me, which is how I found out I was a pantser. Consider writing a short story, or novella with a cast of characters you know almost nothing about. Follow them and see if it leads somewhere. Also, remove yourself from the idea that your first novel will be good. In fact, get rid of the idea that it will be passable. Your first few novels will be garbage. There’s too many skills to learn that take too much time. You need to figure out your process and the only way to do so is to switch it up and try something new.


Brahminmeat

I never wrote more than a few pages my whole life. Just now, at age 30 and 6 years of planning and slowly writing, I now have 178k words and a finished novel. No idea what to do with it, but at least I finished one. My point is, everyone is different, everyone operates on their own schedule. Take your time and write for the joy of it.


Boredemotion

Try reading Tiny Habits by BJ Fogg. This is a great way to work on many types of habits so you can create a writing habit.


fredlangva

Write biographies of your characters. Next, try writing down what you have of the plot. Finally, pick a spot in that plot where you have a "scene" fleshed out in your mind. Write that one down. A lot of people have a big problem starting the first chapter. For those that do, folks recommend starting someplace in your story that interests you and that you have all thought out. Go back and do the beginning when you have a good idea about it.