Finally.

[Deleted member 42060]

I’ve been disinterested in writing for the past few months, and now I’m back, baby! I guess there are times when you literally stop becoming a writer for months or years, and then when you start enjoying reading again, you eventually enjoy writing again. I just want to go back to the good old days when I used to write an unintentionally stupid story for fun. The only problem is I don’t have the same discipline I had when I used to be “serious” in writing. I used to look at writing like my life depended on it, and now I just look at it almost trivially. But no matter. What’s most important is that I’m starting to get into it, regardless of how undisciplined I’ve gotten after being disinterested.

It’s weird how you change so much every after month. It’s jarring.​

 

[RepresentingWrath]

My condolences.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

You have given me hope. I am going through something similar but I want to jump back in soon.

 

[lambenttyto]

It’s weird how you change so much every after month. It’s jarring.

You have given me hope. I am going through something similar but I want to jump back in soon.

Yeah, you--and you!

To the principal's office. Now!

"I used to look at writing like my life depended on it"

That's why you quit. Creativity, which is what writing a story is, is not sustainable in that regard.

This regard: "I used to look at writing like my life depended on it"

I think I have a headache now.

Haha, I'm just kidding.

It's the creative side of the brain vs the critical side. You want to lean on your creative side. When writing is "hard" or "important" you're using the critical side.

There's a really great book on this subject. It's called Writing Into the Dark by Dean Wesley Smith. Get it. Read it. I've read it at least fifteen times. Whenever I start to feel even a hint like you guys do, which seems to not be happening anymore, I would read the book. It's short. You can read it in one sitting, but wow, is it a game changer.

Do it.

All right, now get outa my office.

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Yeah, you--and you!

To the principal's office. Now!

"I used to look at writing like my life depended on it"

That's why you quit. Creativity, which is what writing a story is, is not sustainable in that regard.

This regard: "I used to look at writing like my life depended on it"

I think I have a headache now.

Haha, I'm just kidding.

It's the creative side of the brain vs the critical side. You want to lean on your creative side. When writing is "hard" or "important" you're using the critical side.

There's a really great book on this subject. It's called Writing Into the Dark by Dean Wesley Smith. Get it. Read it. I've read it at least fifteen times. Whenever I start to feel even a hint like you guys do, which seems to not be happening anymore, I would read the book. It's short. You can read it in one sitting, but wow, is it a game changer.

Do it.

All right, now get outa my office.

I'm just overwhelmed with school, work, and social life so once I figure one out I'll have time to actually sit down and write freely.

 

[Deleted member 68927]

Yeah, you--and you!

To the principal's office. Now!

"I used to look at writing like my life depended on it"

That's why you quit. Creativity, which is what writing a story is, is not sustainable in that regard.

This regard: "I used to look at writing like my life depended on it"

I think I have a headache now.

Haha, I'm just kidding.

It's the creative side of the brain vs the critical side. You want to lean on your creative side. When writing is "hard" or "important" you're using the critical side.

There's a really great book on this subject. It's called Writing Into the Dark by Dean Wesley Smith. Get it. Read it. I've read it at least fifteen times. Whenever I start to feel even a hint like you guys do, which seems to not be happening anymore, I would read the book. It's short. You can read it in one sitting, but wow, is it a game changer.

Do it.

All right, now get outa my office.

This book has been very enlightening. I just finished reading it and found that, when I was not taking the approach to writing like it was a competition and was just writing for myself, I had more fun and wrote longer. Therefore, I take back my pledge that I will write a 100k word book, I will buy a notebook with colored papers for outlines after the chapters, and I will go back to writing the same way as I did when I just wrote fan fictions. Like a child playing in a mud puddle, in the summer rain.