Lovely by Surprise2007

[first lines]

Marian:
Hey, I was writing this thing, and I believe in it. It can be good.

Jackson:
Of course.

Marian:
And I just couldn't get over the hugeness of writing a novel. I mean, the enormity of it. And I didn't feel this way until I got to this hard moment in the book. And now I can't seem to recover it. I keep shutting down when I try to write. It's scary.

Jackson:
That's not a new problem for writers, of course, you know.

Marian:
But it passes, and books are written, and life resumes again. Right?

Jackson:
Only if you write.

Marian:
Sounds so easy.

Marian:
[in a low voice] I'm only 3 chapters in, but I get the sense that one of the characters I'm writing knows he's being written.