What's your longest record of experiencing writer's block that made your novels go on hiatus?

[Eldoria]

What's your longest record of experiencing writer's block that made your novels go on hiatus?

 

[ArchlordZero]

I don't know if it's called a mental block, but I put some of my novels in hiatus to write another novel lol

 

[Corty]

24 hours.

 

[LuoirM]

This question is like 9/11 to authors

 

[Hoshino]

Notice: The only thint that makes me go on a hiatus is depression, and depression gets me back to it-nya.

 

[FRWriter]

2 days.... Afterwards, I feel guilty enough and immediately get to work, trying to make up lost time. Trying to create chapters daily. There is literally no excuse, because I waste at least 5 to 6 hours every day doing useless shit, so I have the time to use two or three hours to create a chapter.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

*sigh* At least I have a smart 4-year-old.

 

[Rhaps]

A pint of beer solves all

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

Cocaine exists for a reason.

 

[servo]

have to have one yet , stories have been compiling for more than 18 years now , its time to write them

 

[JayDirex]

June 23, 2022 I posted Chapter 25.

This week I finished chapter 26 and, as we speak, in the middle of writing chapter 27.

So 3 years and 5 months.

 

[TASTYLEADPAINT]

does being in a slump count? i went from posting weekly to posting once every 3 to 4 weeks.

 

[Paul__Michaels]

A pint of beer solves all

But then when you sober up the next day and you reread your work for editing. You have no idea what the hell you just wrote

 

[CharlesEBrown]

2012-ish (pretty much the year my old desktop died and I started jobs that I had to drive to commute to instead of taking public transportation) to 2019 (just started back up before COVID hit and got into it during the lockdown)

 

[FionaRobinsong]

I was almost a decade without writing, and my two WIPs from that time are long gone. Depression and then having kids killed my ability to put words down (not to mention ate up my time). But I’m in a better place emotionally now, kids are thriving and I’ve been able to write 114 chapters since February! (Not all are posted, because editing is important lol)

 

[Fakeminsk]

Stopped writing around 2008, I think. Picked it up again in 2022. So 14 years-ish. Been writing it ever since.

 

[Rhaps]

Stopped writing around 2008, I think. Picked it up again in 2022. So 14 years-ish. Been writing it ever since.

Thats quite a long time charging your inspiration

 

[abu_nur]

Funny enough i think 3 years. Never happened for that long since.

 

[Eternauta86]

Mine is however long revision and editing take. I just can't both come up with the story and tear and refine it in the same time frame. I write a book, then go back at it and pause my story.

 

[Fakeminsk]

Thats quite a long time charging your inspiration

Dunno if I was charging it - I just walked away from writing, distracted by other things in life. Then, other things happened that brought me back to writing. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to pick the same story up again - but I did, and it's been fairly steady sailing since, to the tune of about 400k words.