I’ve been re-blogging quite a bit lately.
No, I don’t have writer’s block. Thankfully, I have never suffered from that disease. With a notebook full of ideas and two novellas in need of some TLC and beta reader feedback, I could easily keep myself busy.
But I don’t feel like writing.
Since I’ve gotten back from my holiday last month, it feels like EVERYTHING around me needs 100% of my attention – RIGHT NOW or YESTERDAY. And my post-vacation drama trauma set the downhill tone for this past month.
I can’t catch my breath and the harder I try to keep up with everything, the more it feels like I’m getting nowhere fast with the things I want to do and need to do.
Everyone suffers from stress but when it’s your stress, you feel like you’re drowning.
Writing usually relieves my stress but being too busy to write, the stress is accumulating and making me feel blah.
And feeling blah means that I have no creative flow.
And no creative flow means that I don’t feel like writing.
Blah…
It’s like a stupid catch 22.
Blah…
What do you do to get back into your creative flow?
M xoxo
Marquessa 
I don’t believe there is a turning off or turning on. It’s just always there.
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I guess that doing other things will help.
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I wish I had some great advice… but I have huge issues with writing at the moment, too. Different, though. I think I have had writer’s block for months. I think it’s permanent. And it’s awful because when I can write, it’s an escape and I desperately need an escape. But the notes I have (I guess I have some ideas) for anything — fiction, poetry, whatever — all those notes are just blah to me right now. Nothing excites me… or motivates me. You’d think that if not writing isn’t working and writing makes me feel better, I’d just write. But I just… can’t. It doesn’t make sense.
And this was not helpful at all. 😦 Sorry. I hope you get your groove back…
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I know that you get it. I’m trying to take it day by day. Started doing some crazy cleaning as a de-stress defense. It’s helping me to clear my mind (and living space).
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I loved when I got into my cleaning phase… I find that so helpful. But I guess I eventually got bored with that, too, and I have no motivation for that anymore.
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I’m not bored yet. But I sometimes just sit unsure of where to start/continue…
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Maybe if I force myself to start again I’ll get back into it…
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I guess we shouldn’t force certain things…
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I don’t know. Lately if I don’t force myself, I won’t do much…
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It depends on what. If its essential, yes. If not, like writing, then no I guess.
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i just take few days off and go with the flow: I know for sure that I am going to get back to writing no matter what. I always have. I always will.
I guess I am at a stage in life where I don’t want to stress much on doing something too religiously. If something’s good for me, I try to do it regularly, but I don’t stress myself to be able to do it every single day. Coz, in the days that I am not doing that, probably I am busy with something else that needs my attention, and for the time being, that’s okay too. 🙂
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Thanks for that Arpita. Yes, it’s good to take a step back and just breathe.
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Oddly enough, I often write best when I know I should be doing something else. So maybe leave some of that cleaning unfinished…?
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I used to do that too…procrastinate on other to write. But it kind of feels like the opposite now.
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I listen to music, watch films, muck about in twitter. A few seconds of observed conversation can spark. I’ve tried a photo prompt or the 22 Pixar questions. I’m still plodding away at getting my 10,000 hours in.
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10,000 hours as in that book o how to master a skill?
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Master a skill. If I write often I will probably get better at it.
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I’ve listened to that audiobook. Very interesting!
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I find other writers help and some kind of challenge (A to Z or CampNaNo or NaNo)…
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True. But tiredness just drains everything out of a person so challenges aren’t even tempting.
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I hope that you can find what works for you!
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