Writing and Performance Anxiety

If you're holding yourself to such a high level in your writing, that it has to be brilliant, all you're going to do is feel anxious. When I was working on my last book, my goodness, I tortured myself so much. And I felt so blocked because I had this inner fear that it wasn't going to be great. That just locked jammed everything. Trying to be brilliant rather than trying to be of service is a key.