I dont know if its because i have been working too much or what, but it feels like my creative well has run dry. I hope this doesnt last.
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You've been under a great deal of stress lately, dear heart...
...family issues, work issues, transition issues; put that together with the undeserved guilt and the usual doubts and anxiety, and you've been thru the wringer big time. I know that your poetry has helped give voice to you in very stressful times, and may help you write.
Dio vi benedica tutti
Con grande amore e di affetto
Andrea Lena
Love, Andrea Lena
Take some time off!
Everyone needs a sabbatical now & then. That includes your Muse as well!
Peace!
The Rev. Anam Chara+
Anam Chara
Drought
Stress and stuff do funny things to you. I had a hard time with the last one, and couldn't see me doing anything else, then an image surfaced, and I now have something ticking away. You can't force it, it comes or it doesn't, and it will come.
Dorothy Colleen,
ALISON
'take a few deep breaths and stand back and all will be well.The impossible takes a little longer.
much love,dear one,ALISON
ALISON
Just Write Anthing
Writing gurus suggest sitting down at your keyboard and simply starting to type. Just go with stream of consciousness. After a while what's pouring out of your head will probably become more and more cogent.
It's worth a try.
Or, you can be a reader for awhile.
It sometimes feels like the world is full of more writers than readers. That isn't a sustainable mix. Writers need feedback,
I'm pleased by the response to the reposting of "Mister". I'm also mystified how anyone can read that story and not either leave a comment or a kudo -- or both. It would seem many can, because many have read it without doing either.
My ego is huge, but even my ego can understand that "Mister" is better than all but a very few of my stories. (if not all, which my ego just can't accept).
You have great abilities and might do what I do when I don't feel like writing . . . edit for others. Your comment on "Mister" showed that you got to the heart of the story. The general theme of that story is that if you do the right thing consistently everything else will take care of itself. Your ability to pick up on that tells me that you could help other writers find and stick to a central theme, which is what editing is really all about.
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Want to borrow an idea or two from me?*
My muse may go into extended hibernation mode periodically, but new story ideas are always running through my head.
Stories involving
A United States Special election for Congress
Deportation
Two husbands and their wives body swap and the former husbands contemplate running off with each other
A Heaven Can't Wait plot involving Horse racing
and Dung Beetles
Yes that's not a typo. I got other ideas too. Some of which have a few words written some don't. My well is never dry. It is just the reverse.
"Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie."- John le Carre
*- The offer isn't serious. I can't write other people's ideas, and think most writers are the same.
Daniel, author of maid, whore, bimbo, and sissy free TG fiction since 2000
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.- Oscar Levant
Some Wells Run Slower
There is a good chance your well has not run dry, its just running slower than you would like.
In this community there are a few writers who can put out a steady stream of quality work, but they are a minority. Most of us are going to publish on an irregular basis, constantly go through fits and starts, not be able to bring ideas to fruition, and just create as the muses allow us to create. Honestly, I believe (or convinced myself) that this is normal.
I agree!
I have been working on my story "Unexpected Attractions" and until today, couldn't figure out where to go with it. It was a simple, not so well written short story, but then I got an editor. It's hard to please my editor sometimes, but it's worth it. Angela Rasch is a fine editor, and she makes me write a better story. Dorothy, I agree that the best thing to do is relax, then just sit down to write, without worrying about what to write. Let your mind and your fingers wander. Cast a line out with your mind, see if you can catch a muse!
Wren