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11 years ago
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So I see it's been about 2 months since my last journal that wasn't a character biography, and I thought I'd just give an update about how I'm doing ^^
As I mentioned a couple of months ago, I'm currently on a writing hiatus, basically just a big break from writing to try and get my drive back, which was waning quite a bit.
Since then, I've managed to get back some drive briefly, which is likely when I wrote the couple of submissions I've done since then, but overall my motivation to write has still been a lot lower than I'd like. I'm not sure why this is, it could just be burnout, it could be a lull in interest for what stories I have planned, it could be the number of stressful/anxiety-inducing things that have cropped up over the last few months, it could be the inability to find a quiet, private place in my home to write, or it could simply be that I've just fallen out of love with writing. I don't want to think it's the last one, and I doubt it is, given that when I -have- gotten some drive to write lately, I've still enjoyed it thoroughly, but I'm still kind of at a dead-end with getting my drive back.
I'm currently writing a request for my partner. It's been surprisingly-difficult to write, well, not really the writing as such, well, no more difficult than usual, but getting myself to -do- the writing is the challenge. I think I started it a couple of weeks ago, and since then I've probably done about... 70% of the story, and I'm just finding it impossible to bring myself to finish it. Not because I don't like it, I do, it's got characters, kinks and a story that's exciting, but I just have no spark that draws me to finish it. I know I will finish it, probably in the next couple of weeks, but after that, I really don't know what to do. I have a lot of planned/semi-planned stories that I'd love to do, but I can barely even see myself finishing the one I'm on, let alone starting more after.
If anyone has any advice/help/pointers of what might be able to fix things, or even just some reassuring works, that'd be greatly appreciated ^^
As I mentioned a couple of months ago, I'm currently on a writing hiatus, basically just a big break from writing to try and get my drive back, which was waning quite a bit.
Since then, I've managed to get back some drive briefly, which is likely when I wrote the couple of submissions I've done since then, but overall my motivation to write has still been a lot lower than I'd like. I'm not sure why this is, it could just be burnout, it could be a lull in interest for what stories I have planned, it could be the number of stressful/anxiety-inducing things that have cropped up over the last few months, it could be the inability to find a quiet, private place in my home to write, or it could simply be that I've just fallen out of love with writing. I don't want to think it's the last one, and I doubt it is, given that when I -have- gotten some drive to write lately, I've still enjoyed it thoroughly, but I'm still kind of at a dead-end with getting my drive back.
I'm currently writing a request for my partner. It's been surprisingly-difficult to write, well, not really the writing as such, well, no more difficult than usual, but getting myself to -do- the writing is the challenge. I think I started it a couple of weeks ago, and since then I've probably done about... 70% of the story, and I'm just finding it impossible to bring myself to finish it. Not because I don't like it, I do, it's got characters, kinks and a story that's exciting, but I just have no spark that draws me to finish it. I know I will finish it, probably in the next couple of weeks, but after that, I really don't know what to do. I have a lot of planned/semi-planned stories that I'd love to do, but I can barely even see myself finishing the one I'm on, let alone starting more after.
If anyone has any advice/help/pointers of what might be able to fix things, or even just some reassuring works, that'd be greatly appreciated ^^
Fuzzball
~fuzzballfox
Just keep at it! I know what has been happening as we've chatted about it before so I can understand fully why the drive to hard to achieve- all I can say if you have to stick to it! That final product will be awesome and you can be proud of yourself knowing that you've not failed yourself! ~~ Many hugs from meeee -snuggles-
Minsc9
~minsc9
OP
Thank ya ^^ I've got a couple of things I'm gonna try and do, see if that spurs on more interest in writing, so there's still hope!
Fuzzball
~fuzzballfox
You can do it!
