Plot your anxiety

Anxiety can be a horrible thing.

For writers, it can feed that little voice in the back of your head telling you you'll never be good enough and that there's always something missing from your writing.

If you let it, anxiety can also be your plot inspiration, however.

All those things that you're worried about, what if they really happened? What kind of story would that make?

What if all the things you worry you would do wrong, your character does wrong? Make it tragic. Make it funny. Make it the most coincidental jumble of errors that eventually lead to a big prize.

Anxiety can be horrible, but you don't have to work against it. See where working with anxiety can take your story.