by Flippity-Floosy » Sun Jan 22, 2023 6:48 pm
Ah, writer's block... the surmountable wall that seems insurmountable.
Glad you've received a lot of feedback. I tend to get writer's block every now and then, and so far, I've got a few strategies that have been working for me.
One thing I realized about myself is that if I'm the sort of person that gets distracted very easily if I'm writing in the confines of my home, and just lose the motivation to write altogether if I'm doing something else. I have a library that's only about five minutes away from my house and depending on if I've got free time, I might spend a few hours there just typing since it kind of forces me to be in a position where I will focus on actually writing. The same if I go to Starbucks or something; usually, if I'm out of the house and on my laptop or the library computers, I'm going to be working on a story idea. It's a habit I developed in college to study because my roommates, as wonderful as they were (and still are, I'm still in touch with them), were distracting and I'd sequester myself at the computer lab or library on campus.
Now, in the case of when I just don't know how to proceed with a story, I tend to work on future scenes, but lately, I've been writing my stories "backwards<" or to put it bluntly, I know how I want my story to end, see what events leads to that ending proceeding it, and continue to write to the scene leading to it. But nowadays, because I have an outline of my story before I start actually writing it, I've been able to kinda push past the writer's block since, so long as I know how its going to end, I just got to make the scenes eventually flow into it. '
And, of course, if no matter what, I don't feel like writing, I just don't write. I get enough of the writing bug that inspiration will eventually spring up at some point or another, and when it springs up, I can write dozens upon dozens of pages in the span of a day or two. But if I'm just not in the mood to write, I just do something else.
Ah, writer's block... the surmountable wall that seems insurmountable.
Glad you've received a lot of feedback. I tend to get writer's block every now and then, and so far, I've got a few strategies that have been working for me.
One thing I realized about myself is that if I'm the sort of person that gets distracted very easily if I'm writing in the confines of my home, and just lose the motivation to write altogether if I'm doing something else. I have a library that's only about five minutes away from my house and depending on if I've got free time, I might spend a few hours there just typing since it kind of forces me to be in a position where I will focus on actually writing. The same if I go to Starbucks or something; usually, if I'm out of the house and on my laptop or the library computers, I'm going to be working on a story idea. It's a habit I developed in college to study because my roommates, as wonderful as they were (and still are, I'm still in touch with them), were distracting and I'd sequester myself at the computer lab or library on campus.
Now, in the case of when I just don't know how to proceed with a story, I tend to work on future scenes, but lately, I've been writing my stories "backwards<" or to put it bluntly, I know how I want my story to end, see what events leads to that ending proceeding it, and continue to write to the scene leading to it. But nowadays, because I have an outline of my story before I start actually writing it, I've been able to kinda push past the writer's block since, so long as I know how its going to end, I just got to make the scenes eventually flow into it. '
And, of course, if no matter what, I don't feel like writing, I just don't write. I get enough of the writing bug that inspiration will eventually spring up at some point or another, and when it springs up, I can write dozens upon dozens of pages in the span of a day or two. But if I'm just not in the mood to write, I just do something else.