"The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down, stream-of-consciousness, you'll do yourself a service." - Stephen Sondheim
Bedlam, honey, get away from the computer and go knit for a while, then write that essay for the Seattle Times contest, then work on your novel. Then go look at the pretties on scans_daily