Discussion Question

[bookblather]

Why is writing so goddamn hard?

Or, is anyone else having a hard time writing this year? Everything seems to be going to hell in a handbasket so my writing might as well go along, is how I apparently feel.

Comments

[kay_brooke]

I am having a super hard time writing this year. Well, it actually started last year, because it turns out when you spend most of your day working a job you despise, you have no energy or motivation for anything else. And now this year has been even worse, because the entire world is awful, and I just wonder what the point even is.

[rootsofthestories]

Yeah, writing is slow as hell this year and I don't entirely know why. I'm tired so often, it's just like...how? How do people make words all the time as well as doing all the other things they do?

[greenling]

My motivation in general has tanked. First six months or so of the year I was depressed and sick all the time and everything just kinda fell out... it's been better since then but it's hard getting back on all the horses.

Plus like. The world, yeah. So much angry-making.

[k_a_webb]

This year has been bad. I've kept up with the writing I need to get done, but a lot of the time that's been like pulling teeth, which completely tanks any urge I have to write anything for me.

I keep trying to take my own advice - to stop pushing myself so hard. It doesn't work. :D

[p_cocincinus]

Even John Scalzi has mentioned on his blog that this year has been hard on his word count. It’s hard to care about fictional problems when the real ones are so present.

[finch]

If even John Scalzi can't write, I'm fucked. XD

There's that "joke" about how dystopic it is to have to regularly call your representatives and tell them you'd rather they didn't vote to kill you. All of our word count is going towards letters to senators.

[feline_scribe]

Yeah.
Not a good writing year for me *at all*. And we're up to October.

Though I'm toying with idea of trying Nanowrimo again this November. Not that I think I can make the word count in a single month. But maybe trying would at least crack me out of my writing slump. I dunno.

[finch]

That's what I'm doing. I have won Nano enough times that I stopped just having fun with it, but I think just trying to cheat my way to 50k will be a heck of a challenge this year.

[gandolforf]

I actually have gotten much more writing done in the last six or so months than I have in the last five years. It's dwindled just lately, though.

[auguris]

I'm on a three year drought. Yay depression. On the other hand, I HAVE been outlining a lot, so that's something.