Gah! I know (and curse myself everyday) that I have 2 open stories - Dead Ringer & Summer of Love - that I have seemingly abandoned.
Not entirely true.
Due to life distractions, I seem to have scared away the muse that was fueling both stories, and I continue struggling to advance them on my own... initially, offline.
Trust me - muse-less story continuation is not publishable. But I am determined to finish what I started,.. with or without my muse.. however long it takes to do it right,
The most vexing thing is that when I forced myself to sit down and work on my two on-the-fly stories (each the counterbalance to the other) I found myself drifting to another story,,, one I'm thinking of calling 'secondhand life'. It's not entirely unlike the premise of the movie 'Dave' or Woody Allen's 'Bananas' - in which an unsuspecting schmoe gets pressed into becoming a stand-in for a public figure (only this time a celebrity of the opposite gender) by various behind-the-curtain forces...
I'm delighted by the possibilities of this premise, yet I'm stubbornly determined to finish what I started in Dead Ringer and Summer of Love ...before beginning something new.
Arggh! My fickle muse. I despise you... and I miss you terribly...
Two tales need satisfactory conclusions. ...and yet another yearns to be told... let me be the conduit through which these stories flow...
Out of sight, but not (entirely) out of mind,,,
K@
Ack! My muse has ADD.
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thats called writers block
It happens to every writer. Yeah dont stop and wait for it to return. That just makes it stop and harder to retun to writing. Just keep trying, keep writing crap that is unpublishable. Eventually. your creative energy will begin flowing again. Might take a while.
Either that (usually works for me) or just start screaming and ranting at the desktop. Shout I wont quite no matter what.
I heard that works too. Never tried it but it is what I am told.
Anyone have any other ways to fight the dreaded writers block.
I thought, perhaps, dynamite but
all it did was create a fissure in the wall. Information still didn't flow.
A. (LOL)
Ok, give this all the attention a complete tyro deserves, but
I've always been told, don't stop ... you stop, getting started again requires overcoming great, possibly infinite inertia.
Read an essay once, by a professional romance writer, who said, simply, she could not afford writer's block. She didn't deny it happened, but she simply refused to succumb to it. Her advice? Write something else.
Don't stop writing, but if you can't write for one project, pick another, and do it before your frustration grows to the point it's causing you more damage than the loss of inspiration. She said she never had less than three projects going at any given time, specifically to deal with this issue.
Also, keep in mind you are doing this because you want to ... ultimately, your satisfaction with this is the only recompense you will get.