Not to mention the amazing research boon of the World Wide Web. The global village is here. Use it and enjoy it. We all daydream of being transported to some remote villa, in a bare room without phone or fax, where we could spend weeks at a time writing whatever strikes our fancy. Its not going to happen.
Every writer has to start somewhere.
The only place any of us can start is, pardon my grammar, the place we're already at. And the only time is today. True, you might fall on your rear. Any number of times. But again, you might dance.