Snowflake Challenge - Day 3
snowflake_challenge Day 3
In your own space, talk about your creative process - from what inspires you to what motivates you to how you manage to break through blocks. Does your process change depending on the type of creating you're doing? Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
I feel like I've rambled on about my creative process a whole lot, so I thought I'd talk about what I do to break through blocks, since I'm blocked right now. Or rather, I am my own block, which, let me tell you, is the hardest of blocks to break through.
I've never bought into the idea of waiting for the muse, or inspiration, or feeling like writing. Writing is work, and generally I'm good a things that are work, things that require you to put your head down and just make it happen. There's magic in writing, too, but if I waited for the magic to bubble over enough to stop everything else, I'd never get anywhere. So I adhere to the ass-in-chair theory of writing.
Except when I won't sit down and write. Which is what's happening right now. I'm out of the habit, which is the first roadblock. I had a tough time recently where nothing mattered at all (oh, insidious depression!) and so I'm still in the process of coming out of the nothingness and remembering that I like ANYTHING, so that's another hole in the road.
But the real true hard part of what's happening now is the whiny little voice in my head that says, "But it's HAAAARD!!" It is hard, little whiny voice, it's true. I'm trying to finish a story right now that needs some empty spaces filled in, and that's a really challenging stage. I am also ALMOST done a short thing, that needs some slight tweaking before I send it to beta, and final tweaking stages are hard, too.
One thing I've done in the past and am considering doing now is starting a new story and building in editing time on the old stories, so that I get to have that fun rush of NEW while I work on the difficult stuff, but I'm also really hesitant to do that, because that's how I end up with so many stories that are NOT FINISHED.
I need to do the hard thing, and then I need to do more hard things. I'm psyching myself up for it, and every day I get closer to getting back into getting it done. I want those stories to be read, and they can't be read if they're not finished. So, yeah, it's hard, but I'm fucking awesome and that won't stop me.
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