Give yourself time because sooner or later everything will happen as it's supposed to and you'll write again

When I was growing up, the song that I liked the most was probably "Time in a Bottle." Sure, X-Men: Days of Future Past brought the song a whole new level of cool for me, but the reasons that I like "Time in a Bottle" still haven't changed. With November, and the start of Nanowrimo, I've decided to participate to basically combat my own "writer's block." And thus far, it's worked.

I suppose that this is always going to be an insecurity for me...the fear that I won't have anything to say or that my ideas will dry up, and I'll be caught with nowhere for my characters to go. Maybe that's why I stayed away from my stories for a few months, putting off the dreaded task of facing a blinking cursor. But the return to writing wasn't so bad. Once I started on November 1st, the words began to flow. First a thousand, then another and another. I can feel the end of my book approaching whereas before, it seemed so far away.

And admittedly endings are the hardest things for me to write. For me, starting a new project and being full of new possibilities is always far more tempting than revisiting the idea I've been spending time with for years. But always starting and never finishing is the hallmark of failure. The first cardinal rule of writing is to always finish. And that, my friends, is what I'm trying to do.

So here's some advice from me to you if you happen to share my insecurity toward writer's block...
Just give yourself time. Soon or later, everything will happen as it's supposed to.
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Published on November 04, 2014 23:03
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message 1: by Helena (new)

Helena Soister I understand that fear of stories drying up and I'll never come up with a good one again. But then a story starts to grow in me, and another and another. You're so creative and damn good, Mike, that I don't think you have anything to worry about--your stories will keep coming, which is good news for us readers. But once in a while we all have to step away from writing or just being creative and give ourselves a rest.

Oh, and I too get tired of the story I've been working on and cheat by playing around with another one.


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