Performance Anxiety

Nope...this is not what you are thinking. It has nothing to do with sex at all. I have been getting a lot of flack about my long overdue book and i really understand why. You all saw glimpses of the book and i guess you also felt that it is something that you will find valuable. Now....here is my problem. As many of you know, this book was conceived on Facebook. The idea of a book happened almost by accident. I was just writing notes, addressing topics that friends kept coming to me about over and over. Somehow, the writing struck a chord. People loved it and asked for more. By the third note, everybody was asking when the book is coming out and i jokingly said "This is the first chapter". Next thing i knew everybody was talking about the book. Fortunately for me, it was practically writing itself. The words were flowing out of me. I was literally just a conduit through which the words flowed. Now....this is the dilemma. Everything i wrote at the time, i shared with friends on Facebook. I got their reviews, their opinions and most importantly, their VALIDATION. They loved what I was writing and they approved. But, at some point i had to stop putting the notes up. I mean, what would the point be if i am going to write a book and then put it up on Facebook in it's entirety? Who will buy it, then. I have since written quite a lot, and kept it to myself. But herein lies the conundrum. Now i have a lot of untested material. And i am uncertain of it. I am very insecure about it. I could have finished writing this book months ago, but i am EXTREMELY insecure about all the untested material. I keep writing, deleting, shelving some material. I keep worrying that the book is too short, i keep worrying that only the first chapters that i wrote are good and the rest is just rubbish. It is driving me insane with worry. It keeps me up at night. I wake up and write some more. You know how some musicians will put out an album with three or four great songs and the rest of the album is just made up of fillers? I don't want that. I want every single chapter to be a hit. I want you all to sleep with the book on your night stand because you just keep going back to it. I want to write a book that you will keep in your handbag and keep on reading all the time. So please do bear with me. Here's a thought; I would like to include some Qooh.me Questions and Answers in the book. Opinions?