Mar
19th
2024
Irony · 8:17am March 19th
I tried to write a blog about how I haven't been able to write. I accidentally hit ctrl+r and refreshed the page, losing everything I had written. A cruel bit of irony. I am tired and angry with myself and scared for my future as a writer and I do not have the energy to retype it, so pretend there is some sincere and heartfelt explanation here and you're moved by the struggles of some weird rabbit girl and all that.
If I do not write soon, then I will... I dunno, steadily grow to hate myself more and more or something?
Never write a fic on fimfiction. Use anything else that doesn't refreshing the site and removing all progress
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I wasn't writing a fic, just a blog. I would certainly not write a fic on Fimfiction lol
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Oops, my bad
But yeah, heard of several who actually wrote stories right here
Do you think just trying a few sentences a day, a one shot, or visiting a neglected project would help?
oh noooo D:
Slumps happen to all of us, Krickis. You have perfectly legitimate reasons for not being able to write.
Stop attacking yourself. Instead of treating it as a slump, treat it as a purposeful break. You have a lot going on right now, and can't focus. You need a break for some self care. When you're ready, you can come back.
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Unfortunately not with how my brain works. Basically I cannot do schedules, the only thing that's worked for me is writing and doing very little else consistently. So that's what I want to do, but now I'm in college and can't afford to do that "neglect other things to write" shit.
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Lmao is this really surprising given what you've seen of my writing habits on my Discord...?
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The thing is that ultimately this is not self care. Self care is taking care of myself, not just doing what's easy. And allowing myself to go almost two years with little writing progress and a full year with much of any progress at all, that's been actively harmful to my mental health. Like I get what you're saying and I appreciate it, but sometimes taking it easy is not self care.
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Oof I fucking feel that; college derailed my productivity so much.
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I feel like you should be allowed to take a 'sabbatical from writing to do college and other things that are worth doing.'
If there were other issues in your life that make college a better way for you to spend your time and energy right now...I really don't think that means you won't be able to write in the future.
I think maybe those issues were just interfering with your writing temporarily, and because you're addressing them you might very likely be bringing closer the time when you can write again.
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I only just started college a couple weeks ago, that's not why I haven't been writing. And I'm not going to give up writing for four years just because I'm in college. I need to balance the two somehow.
And trust me, I have not been doing anything that needs doing. I've been 100%ing every game in the Final Fantasy series, which is not particularly important to me but has been what I've been focused on anyway.
Really, when I say I have not had a reason to not write, I mean it. And yet I haven't. And if I wasn't writing when I didn't have a reason not to, what will happen now that I have a reason not to (college)? I'm not sure, but I need to figure it out because waiting until college is done is not an option in the slightest.
Hey there, long time no see! I have been absent for a while!