WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 22 -- Sunday

[linaewen]

Greetings, fellow writers!  linaewen here, to serve as your writing encouragement person for the week.  It's a fresh new week of writing challenge, full of possibilities, so let's start things off nicely with a quote that strikes a chord with me whenever I see it:

Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
~ William Wordsworth

With this thought in mind, how is writing going for you today?  Are you:

• having a day filled with setting the breathings of your heart to paper and all the excitement that comes with that flowing of words?
• having a day of getting ready to listen to those words, through research and outlines?
• staring at the blank page, unable to figure out how to start explaining what your heart wants to say?

For Discussion: I have personally had a long period of not being able to write due to real life responsibilities.  The "breathings of my heart" are pretty shallow at the moment, though I am hoping I can resuscitate them now that I'm on a bit of a vacation.  Do you have trouble getting back into writing after a long spell of inactivity?  How do you manage it?

Comments

[sharpiefan]

I have a baby plotbunny that I'm pretty sure will go into hiding if I so much as open Word. Meh.

I WILL get it to grow into a big grownup plotbunny one of these days and then I'll get this fic written. :D

It's been rather a long time since I wrote anything and it always takes time to get back into it, because things get rusty and seize up if not used, and the writing muscle is one of those things.

[rebecca2525]

Did the last few tweaks on my Yuletide fic. Yay! I also started working on a new fic. I think it needs to be told from a different POV than I first thought while outlining, so lets see how it turns out.