Whinge

[indri]

I can't seem to write fiction at all at the moment. Every time I put fingertip to keyboard the result is decidedly uninspired. Oh, the individual sentences are OK but I can't seem to get them to hang together into a coherent story. I'm going to have to email Marieki and apologise that her fic is so late.

But I get some pleasure in checking my reader logs. In the last twenty-four hours my website has amused people in Portugal, Edinburgh (anyone I know?), Florida, Ohio. Michigan, Nebraska, Dallas, Vienna, Belgium and the Bay Area.

Anyone got any hints on how to get one's groove back?

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I know it's not what you want to here, but in my experience the only cure for writer's block is time. It just came, eventually it just goes.

Meanwhile, I would advise not ruining your current projects by messing with them when you aren't in the zone. Stick to drabbles or try some short exercises (describe three things at random that you can see from where you are sitting. Write a scene of dialogue between two characters. Now write it again without any dialogue etc.) This might get your writerly muscles moving again, and if it doesn't you won't have done any harm by trying.

[indri]

I would advise not ruining your current projects by messing with them when you aren't in the zone

This is tremendously sound advice -- would that I had followed it in the past! I think the block has cleared up, but when it comes back I will try the sort of exercises you recommend.