I'm Writing Garbage. You?

"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Have you ever felt utterly incompetent as a writer? As though you have this amazing story inside you and you can see it, like a movie, in your head but you can't get it down so that anyone else can see it?

Man, I hope so, because misery loves company ;-)

I've been writing lately, quite a bit actually, but it's all crap. Seriously. And it really frustrates me, because I can see the scene, really see it in my head. I can watch the characters walking around and talking and doing their thing, but I Can. Not. Get. That. Down.

Still, I write. At some point, I imagine, my brain and my fingers will connect and make nice with one another. But this has been the most frustrating week. It's vaguely reminiscent of when I did NaNoWriMo and hit the second week. It was an effort to get anything out, but because I HAD TO in order to get my word count, I pushed through and wrote and when I got about halfway through that week, I had a breakthrough, and it was all pretty easy after that.

What do you do when you feel like you can't write a decent sounding word? It's not writers block, exactly. I know what I want to write, it just isn't coming out well... Any and all advice appreciated.

But, hey, on the brighter side -- at least it's cooler here. Finally. Phew!