On writer's block

[barbarienne]

sksperry has a discussion of writer's block here.

I find writing fiction very difficult. I am in awe of writers who can come up with 1000+ words any day, much less every day. When I'm on, I can do 1000 words in a little over an hour, but...

The hard part is flipping the switch to "ON" at all. I can sit down and start writing, and it is unbelievably

Comments

[malkatsheva]

I love your determination!

[sksperry]

I find the hardest part is getting started, and making it a routine. Once I've been doing it for three or four days, I'm good. It comes easy after that. The problem is it only takes a break of as little as two days to throw a wrench into the process and make it difficult again. Two days and it's like pulling teeth. Grrrrr.

[barbarienne]

Routine helps, but it doesn't make the writing any easier. It just makes the discomfort more tolerable, because I get used to it. The aversion factor becomes less, but the words don't come any more readily.

[frigg]

Couldn't have written it better myself. I wish I was one of those writers who love writing and can get down 3000 words in each session.

[la_marquise_de_]

This happens to me much of the time. The flood of words thing is rare and usually only near the end. It's as if I need to have a huge weight of momentum behind me before the brakes come fully off.

[renakuzar]

Let the writing become a conversation - give yourself permission to be telling your story to an imaginary other