When you finish your novel, your life won’t be any different than it is now. Your anxiety and depression won’t disappear. Your dreams of making millions of dollars won’t magically come true. You won’t suddenly attract the love of your life because you’ve done something worthy of their notice.
The sooner you realize you’re projecting a fantasy onto the moment you’ve finished your novel, the sooner you’ll be able to come back to the present and stop living for an imagined future.
In other words, how do your thoughts about writing change when you realize you’ll feel the same way you do now even after finishing your novel?
What feelings are you avoiding feeling right now?