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mare:
For the people in a writing funk, what is something that would help get you out of it? Why do you think you ended up in a writing funk in the first place?

usako:

--- Quote from: mare on November 09, 2013, 06:58:53 PM ---For the people in a writing funk, what is something that would help get you out of it? Why do you think you ended up in a writing funk in the first place?

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To me, it helped so so much all the pictures and videos of Brian and Nick from the cruise and now from the European promo.   ;D ;D
As for the reason why I end up in a funk, it's pretty simple: my insecurities. I started thinking that what I was writing just sucked, then that all of my ideas were bleah and no one would really read them or like them, even myself. Plus being half sick and always out of home.

RokofAges75:
I think if I had a story idea I was really into, I would probably make more of an effort to write during the free time I do have in the evenings after school or on weekends.  When I was writing Curtain Call, I sometimes wrote on school nights because I was so into it that my enthusiasm made up for my lack of energy.  I also wrote By My Side throughout college, student teaching, and my first year of teaching, which couldn't have been any less busy than this year has been for me.  The difference is, I cared so much about that story that I made the time to write, whereas now, forcing something out on one of my in-progress stories that I'm already kind of "meh" about feels like way too much effort, so I usually choose to watch TV instead LOL.  I think if I were to be hit with a truly inspired idea or a wave of inspiration on one of the stories I've started, I would start writing again.

Sakabelle:
I don't actually know what would help me get out of it. I thought the new album would help a bit to click my brain back into BSB mode, and it did but it didn't last long enough for me to complete Thesis of a Cruel Angel, even though I think I do have 5 or so chapters of that sitting in my folder unposted.

I was also banking on the cruise to bring back some of my BSB mojo. I even worked my butt off to finish a 1D story before that because I was so sure I'd be back into BSB mode afterwards. But that didn't happen.

I actually did open up Running Up That Hill last week and read over the entire thing, and I wrote about 100 words on a new chapter of it before getting bored/frustrated with it and giving up.

I don't know what it is because it's not that I don't like them anymore, I really do and I still keep up with them and I listen to IAWLT often. But for some reason, writing 1D stuff is a lot more appealing to me - oh and that's another issue I have. With BSB I largely write about Nick and it's always been that way, I've never had much interest in writing about the other guys (which is part of the reason Running Up That Hill is such a big challenge for me) but in 1D I will write about any one of them or any combination of them as main characters. So I feel like I have 4 more main characters to play with rather than just one in BSB.

Carter-Orange:
I know that if someone came and stole my TV, that would get me out of this slump.  I've become a real TV junkie!

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