WIP Challenge Check-in, Day 1 -- Monday

[linaewen]

Hello on Monday!  What kind of a writing day has it been today?

• I thought about my fic once or twice
• I wrote
• I did some planning and/or research
• I edited
• I've sent my fic off to my beta
• I posted today!
• I'm taking a break
• I did something else that I'll talk about in a comment

For Discussion:  I have personally had a long period of not being able to write due to real life responsibilities.  Do you have trouble getting back into writing after a long spell of inactivity?  How do you manage to overcome it?

Comments

[merryghoul]

Tried to write, but couldn't. Ended up editing projects I've already written.

I do have trouble going back to writing after dealing with RL; I let time pass before I can get into my groove again.

[lilly_c]

I'm having some trouble getting going again and it is mainly down to work and doing a ton of overtime each week after my day centre shifts, which means I'm too tired to do anything that require brain when I get home.

In the past I've got back to writing by using drabbles, ficlets, anything short enough to be crap really and then going to the longer fics. Although that isn't working too well for me just now.

[the_rck]

I've written about three paragraphs so far today. I'm hoping to write considerably more (assuming I can stop myself from cat-waxing).

Getting back to writing is a challenge. I often need an external push like a deadline or a writing buddy to get myself moving. It's so easy to coast along and not do anything (or to do anything besides writing).

[samuraiter]

*clicks Option #3*

Started by prewriting today. (I did this by hand on a beat-up notepad I keep for the purpose; forgot just how helpful that could be.) Have a clear idea of where I want the story to go, and outlining the scenes helped show me what material I could add to flesh things out. Going to try and do a (brief) prologue tomorrow to get that moving.

Discussion: Well, that's kind of why I'm here. I'm trying to get my groove back after a period of multiple job changes, all of them disruptive to the way I used to write. (I had the same job for a long time, so I got used to having my Writing Time ™ pretty much at the same time, all the time.) I'm also in a long-running contest against myself to try and recapture all the energy I used to have when I first really got into fanfic and could do thousands of words at a stretch; even if I never get back there, I can at least try and re-form the habits that made it possible.