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Ruxandra Grrr [in a slump :(((((]
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Charlie Jane Anders:
How do you convince yourself to write when (or if) you have a few really shitty days? Do you ever feel like you can't access that creative space?
Charlie Jane Anders
There's a bunch of answers to this. I'll try and be brief....... :)
1) Over a long period of time I've gotten into the habit of writing and I have trained myself to just write no matter what, even if I'm feeling like hot garbage and the words are sucking.
2) Sometimes you have to "cheat on" your project and just work on something else.
3) Sometimes I just write a paragraph and it takes me like three hours and doesn't feel worth it, but it totally is because I'm still working the problem in my head.
4) On the same note, staring into space is writing. People-watching is writing. Listening to music and zoning out is writing. I count all of those things as part of my "writing time."
Hope this helps!
1) Over a long period of time I've gotten into the habit of writing and I have trained myself to just write no matter what, even if I'm feeling like hot garbage and the words are sucking.
2) Sometimes you have to "cheat on" your project and just work on something else.
3) Sometimes I just write a paragraph and it takes me like three hours and doesn't feel worth it, but it totally is because I'm still working the problem in my head.
4) On the same note, staring into space is writing. People-watching is writing. Listening to music and zoning out is writing. I count all of those things as part of my "writing time."
Hope this helps!
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