Science Writing is Being and Doing

As a budding writer I have many fears and excitements.  Originality is a fear that halts me in my tracks.  As I write, my thoughts will slip away: am I creating my 'own voice' within the piece?  The simplicity that to recognize that 'it is just a draft' or to practice respecting the process is key.  Hancock poses this eloquently and simply in her book, Ideas Into Words.  She suggests that an article has to be authentically intriguing.  This phrase nails it.  I have found myself staring at a brick wall, so focused on my 'being' as a writer that the 'doing' does not proceed.  To respect the process can allow the reader to just get to the point.  Getting to the point is worth more than obsessing 'how' the words are being perceived, in the first draft.  How many of us, have found ourselves stuck at this point?  Don't try to be original.  Don't become surrounded by material that negatively influences the personal voice.  All to many times, I have sat down at the computer over thinking every sentence, trying to perfect it as I write.  I do not know if it is laziness that overcomes.  The idea of having to draft becoming exhausting before I even dive into the process.  Maybe it is that it is easy to feel discouraged when the first draft comes out bad.  To accept that all first drafts (or at least the majority of them) will always be bad.  The idea has be told and heard over and over.  Accepting and running with it is key!  It really is just practice.  To let go.  Follow routine.  Write.  Revise.  Write.  Hancock lays this idea out bold and strong.  Drafts improve every time.  "It is more useful than self-esteem because it relies more on constructive action."  For me, I can easily resonate with all that Hancock presents in her book.  Writing is a practice.  Without the practice, without the doing there is no writing.  It is as simple as that.  What is it that can change how hard it is too?  Routinely scheduling times to write seems to be the most effective way I have found.
I am excited when I learn something new.  I want to share these ideas.  Although it is a little scary when considering the possibility of not being able to convey the research and ideas correctly to the audience and coming off as ignorant.  The guidelines presented in these first couple of chapters provides a recognizable and understandable method to hopefully avoid these fears.
To not stop before starting.  To respect the process.  To grant a beginners permit.  These are helpful.