WIP Check-In: August 30th

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Poll #11585 Check In: August 30th

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

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How has today been?

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Awesome!
1 (20.0%)

Pretty good
0 (0.0%)

okay
2 (40.0%)

meh
1 (20.0%)

Why are you taunting me?
1 (20.0%)

Today I have...

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wrote
3 (50.0%)

edited
0 (0.0%)

posted
0 (0.0%)

researched
1 (16.7%)

will explain in comments
3 (50.0%)

Discussion Topic!!

Another guest question, and probably one that has been seen around these parts before, but I didn't notice it recently, so it is probably time for it again. How do you deal with writers block?

Just start writing whatever, putting on mood music, brainstorming with someone else, opening a WIP and hoping for the best?

I must admit, I am a "open an existing WIP and hope it inspires me" kind of gal. Sometimes I need to open 4-5 documents before I find the one that speaks to me, but it usually works and then I am ready to be creative again.

Is there anything that works the best for you?

Comments

[barbayat]

Unproductive Day, headache, my tooth hurts ... slept most of the timeb ut never more than a few hours. Oh well, it can only get better. :D

[sperrywink]

I hope you feel better today!! It does sound like you were having a rough bit of it yesterday and well-deserved to not be productive.

[barbayat]

It seems either I am productive or not at all. It is easy to slip from productive to not productive and so hard to get back to being productive.

A belated answer to the question would be: What always helps me is talk about fanfic, either my plot ideas, my ideas about the genre or similiar fanfictions. I seems just talking and sharing enthusiasm for writing down ideas got my creative juices flowing.

At least I do not think it is a coincidence that once they went busy with real life I quickly stopped having the "high" that helped me previously. Then I got talking just briefly and bam wrote a couple of words.

[snowynight]

It's very unproductive as my brainstorming hasn't led to anything yet. During a writer's block,I'll brainstorm with someone and set a period of time that I watch the computer screen and prepare to do nothing but write. They work sometimes.

[omens]

Oh yeah, that works for me sometimes too!

[sperrywink]

Bummer!! I hope your brainstorming helps soon.

It's funny, but I write better when I have a certain level of distraction. SO if I really want to write, I will ask for comments in my journal and then write in-between answering them and that goes much better than trying to write with nothing else going on.

[omens]

Huh, I didn't get around to writing anything yesterday, or doing much of anything in general :P

I do like the "open various stories" until one pings system, myself, but it doesn't usually work for me.

So mostly - I just don't fight it. And do something else. And sometimes beat myself up about it, though I'm getting better about that. Sometimes telling people about my wip can get me really excited/inspired, but sometimes if I tell to much it's like I get it out of my system and I lose ALL interest. /o\

I think the biggest thing I do against writer's block is just to write consistently and stop caring about what I'm writing and just put words out. In a couple days it starts looking less like mindblather and more like a story again. :P :P

[sperrywink]

Some days, you just need a break. Maybe today will be the turn-around. It is almost the weekend! \o/

Yes, I can excite myself with WIPs, but sharing them tends to make me lose focus and interest. I've learned that lesson well and avoid that nowadays.

Just getting words on paper is such a key thing.