Bye Bye Writer's Block

Na Na Na Na, hey, hey, hey - Good Bye! Sorry, I am just so very glad that the dreaded, miserable writer's block is gone! I thought, since I've been whiny about it - that I'd share my happy news.  Apparently my writer's block was getting to my husband, too.  I have admitted that I get grouchy when I'm not writing.  Anyway, he told me this evening to go out and get some writing done.  Thank goodness he did because I had the best writing session I've had this calendar year.  And now I have all sorts of scenarios running through my head again.  It is, quite honestly, an enormous relief!

Do any of you get really grouchy when you have writer's block? And are you completely relieved and ecstatic when it takes a hike? Please, do share.

Have a great weekend!

Writer's Funk

I am in a serious writer's funk.  This happens to me once or twice a year - so I'm not surprised by it - but I am thoroughly frustrated with it.  I keep telling myself it will pass and to just 'keep writing'.  In an attempt to follow my own advice - I have indeed kept to my writing over the past week or so.  And have really disliked nearly every thing I have written.  As I said, thoroughly frustrating! Today, I barely wrote anything.  I am finding that I just want to read.  I want to stick my nose - and my imagination - into the pages of books and go to places that are not of my creation.  Maybe I should just take this path for a few days and see if I feel more inspired.

I am wondering what other writers do when they have the inevitable writer's funk.  Stop whining (I know that's what I'm doing) and just keep writing, read a book or take a break in another way?

A Bit of Writer's Block

I'm having the dreaded writer's block.  This happens to me a couple of times per year.  The thing is - I know the tricks for getting past it but they just are not working for me right now.  I think part of the issue for me at this time is that I'm at a critical point in the novel I've been working on - and it simply is not reading as well as I want it to.  I only have about ten percent of this book to complete but it's an important part of the story.  I don't know, maybe I'm putting too much pressure on myself to get it perfect.  And yet, I want it to be perfect.  Imagine that.

I've tried putting the book aside and writing something else.  While I did get a lot done on some other writing - I just feel guilty that this book is so close to being complete but I can't get it there.  It's actually really frustrating.  Especially as I have a sequel in mind for it already.  My first sequel at that.

Maybe this is another of those situations where I need to silence the internal editor and just write whatever comes out of me.  Finish the story, put it on paper and then revisit it in a couple of weeks for the editing.  I just want to get the darn thing done.  I'm really hoping that just complaining (yes, I know that's what I'm doing lol) will get through the writer's block and allow me to finally finish the darn novel/

Wicked Writer's Block

Last week I said I'd have 25,000 words written by today. Well, now it's time for me to just laugh at myself because I am nowhere near that goal. The thing is though, I'm not laughing, not one little bit. If anything, I want to cry in absolute frustration! I have no idea what the heck my problem is but my writer's block is wicked bad! I don't know how to get out of this writer's funk. I can't concentrate at all when I do try to write and the few ideas I do have feel super weak. Great, now I'm being whiny, too. Fabulous.

A friend gave me a book called A Writer's Space: Make Room to Dream, to Work, to Write by Eric Maisel, Ph.D. I am going to read this book and hopefully it will inspire me and get me back on a positive writing streak.