Research is all well and good, but books don't get written without actual writing taking place.

So. Flipping. True. I have struggled with this fact for years--part of it's that I'm putting off writing, so I hide in the research, and part of it is that I don't feel I have enough authority/knowledge to write about something--even something fictional--unless I know everything there is to know about it. I think I'm getting better, though, at kicking myself into just actually sitting down and writing something. I tell myself that I have to get to the end of the thing (play, story, poem) before I can go back to the beginning and make it good (in whatever way I am fearing that whatever I write won't be 'good').

Good luck to us!