Feeling the Fear…and Doing It Anyway?

I wish…

A couple of weeks ago now, I got a long revise/resubmit letter for Midnight Sun. I printed out the manuscript because I need to break it into chunks–and the manuscript is just sitting here. Now, granted, last week was rough–family drama starting on the snow day and not over yet, and 3 late nights at school. But you know me, I can usually push through all that. Heck, I wrote Beneath the Surface when my grandmother was in the hospital, just so I could have control of something.

So what's stopping me? Fear. I'm scared to death I can't meet my editor's expectations. It's not that she wasn't very clear. She was. But she wants me to dig deeper into the characters, into the story, and I just don't know if I can.  I know I need to, but to rise to the level she's asking? I don't know. And the mechanics of doing it–I don't know that, either. I thought of going scene by scene, but I can't make myself even open the document.

How do you overcome this kind of fear?