Check In Day 16

[fleetsparrow]

Forget a month of Sundays:  if January was a month of Mondays, then February has felt like a month of Tuesdays.  We know what's happened, we have an idea of what's still to come, but it still feels like everything has to get done by climbing uphill both ways.

With that minor bit of depression out of the way, how is everything else?

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How goes the writing?

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Going well!
3 (50.0%)

Going poorly.
0 (0.0%)

It's going.
2 (33.3%)

Writing?
0 (0.0%)

It did not, in fact, go.
1 (16.7%)

Discussion time:

I'll tell you what, there are few things more frustrating that getting in the writing-stress cycle:

Writing relieves stress-->When I'm too stressed, I can't write-->When I can't write, I get stressed-->Repeat 5ever.

But when I manage to break this cycle--even with just a sentence written during 3 minutes of "hiding in the bathroom" time--I do always feel better for having written.

So, the main question is:  How do we remind ourselves that writing helps our brain?  How do y'all get to that point, if you do?

Comments

[linaewen]

Fic writing did not go, though I did think about it a bit and lament that it was not going. The writing-stress cycle was in full effect, at least as far as my WIP goes! I did get some boring writing done, like a newsletter and a report, so hopefully that will relieve my stress enough to be able to focus on the fun WIP.

I am going to try to remind myself today that writing is good for me by putting on some music and sitting with my fic until I get a new paragraph written. Or even just a sentence. This will probably be all it takes to prime the pump, but I have to give myself the time and space to prime the pump or the water won't come out!

[omens]

When I get stressed about not being able to write, I write something new and fun and absolutely stupid. Eventually, I start taking it way too seriously, so there's diminishing returns. But for about a week, it's glorious. Will I go back to the old wip once the new one gets too hard?? Or will I start a newer funner stupider one? :| ANYWAY, very much enjoying my new goofy wip