Hello Wacky!
I have been in absentia far too long from this group.
Lot’s has gone down in the past year. Been struggling to write as of late, starting and halting on many short and long projects in my files. Nothing seems to be sticking, which is frustrating, because the seeds of the ideas I have are solid.
My Manuscript for Michael: Saying No is Harder Than it Sounds is stalled very near the end of the story, which seems to be a theme for me… I do great until it’s time to wrap up the story and then BOOM my brain balks and forward momentum grinds to a halt. BAH! And this is the final book in the Michael (high school) series too!
Beyond that, I got a major blow in the RL side of my life with the recent passing of my father. So I’ve been “brain too full” with trying to figure out how to help my mom in the aftermath. They were less than prepared for this and we are in a bit of a scramble to get her in a place where she can be comfortable and thrive in her changed dynamic. That, in turn, has left my brain little room to be creative.
I am slowly, EVER SO SLOWLY, getting to a place where my brain is allowing glimmers of creative hope.
So I’m back to reengage with the community in the hopes of blowing these embers into living flames of creativity.
I’m so sorry for your loss and I hope things settle and resolve well for your mom. I know how a death in the family can upheave a whole lot of lives. Don’t put too much pressure on yourself to write. If you are having trouble wrapping up the story you are more serious about, it might be a good idea to do some smaller writing exercises instead to just help creativity flow without the expectation of it having to be “good”.
Honestly, my first complete 0 draft is from my mother’s passing. It was wanting something simple, and it holds echoes of her death that probably only I could see.
Welcome back! So sorry for your loss, but fingers crossed that Wacky will be able to provide a fruitful diversion And the writing will no doubt come back, too, sometimes it just likes to be stubborn…
I hope you know that it’s okay to be unable to do a thing for some time. It’s okay to not create especially if you’re going through a lot of stuff.
I was in a slump with creating not so long ago because of life stuff. I wasn’t able to do anything for quite some time and it did bother me, but I decided to just take it slow. January was weird. It was so weird. Idk why but I felt like I was running the entire time and never catching up. To what? Idk.
One thing I did do was come on Wacky (like you have!) and hope into conversations about other peoples’ stories. I thought maybe that would bring a spark out in myself. I also started fixing the lore pages of my world on my website.
Actually, writing about story facts rather than the story itself has helped spark some editing willingness back into me recently (yeah, I haven’t been able to write anything since December last year). Only recently I’ve started editing Project Demon Friend a little bit.
Maybe you could make character profiles or list up the names of towns, or something. It’s information you already know and revisiting the story from a factual angle could help?
And the writing will no doubt come back, too, sometimes it just likes to be stubborn…
