worlds longest case of writers block

[Kat]

i have a few stories that i started about 2 years. I go back to them once in a while when i have some free time, and i'm COMPLETELY frozen on every single of them them. It's horrible, i wrote one of them in print and never got around to typing it, and trying to keep track of the whole thing is terrible because the notebook has since fallen apart

I keep thinking i should just hand them off to someone to finish, but i really want to do them myself, i just cant inspire myself to write these days!

So thats it basically, just wanted to rant a bit on that

[jellicle]

i have exactly the same problem. I have started a story 5 years ago and i even had the sequel (since the first part was only 20 something chapters) and i really like that story, i have it completely finished in my mind but i just can't type it out. Moreover, i need to rewrite most of the part that i've written until now since some parts sound awful considering the fact that i was just a teen back then.

I thought about giving the whole story to someone else to finish but i felt like i'd be betraying the story and myself. I need to get out of this writer's block as well!

Also, i have at least 5 story outlines in my mind and scribbled somewhere in my notebooks but i'm actually to scared to start off another one since i can't trust myself if it will turn out to be as good as it plays in my mind.

What should we do??

[Kat]

I have that problem too, anytime i DO try to write new chapters i never feel like theyre as good as they should be and i end up deleting them because i think theyre no good and then i get frustrated because my ideas arent coming through so i stop writing.

[Julie]

I have that issue too, with Not Another Teenybopper Fanfic and, to some extent, my collaboration Now or Never (although technically it's not my turn to write the next chapter, so I can use Bianca as an excuse ). Every once in awhile I get going on Teeny, but those times are few and far between lately. I still plan on finishing the thing; it's just my "side project."

I don't really know what to tell you. Sometimes I try to just force stuff out, but if I can't get myself going and it's obvious that I'm just forcing my way through it and BSing just to get something done, I stop because I know it won't be any good that way. I have to wait till my heart's actually in it. But sometimes it takes awhile LOL.

[Gravity]

Writers block sucks! I have a Howie story that I started several years back and got stuck on. I am determined however, to complete it come hell or highwater!!! I'm thinking I may attempt to tackle it after AWKOL.

[dewfreak]

I feel ya on this whole thing. I'm notorious for having severe bouts of writer's block that I rarely get over. I started writing a first-person Nick story set in and around 2015 or so, and reflecting back on his life, how he met and lost his first wife, remarried, and all the problems he ran into as a father and again as an expected father, where my story begins and was supposed to end with the birth of his new child. Kinda lame, I guess, but I started it about 2 or 3 years ago and I haven't been able to break my writer's block. There's another story I started recently that I'm having a lot of trouble writing, but that's for a different reason...kind of...I dunno, it's just hard for me to write this one. Maybe it's just that I'm not really motivated to write and then when I am, I get really hyped up about it but if I can't get to it within about half an hour, I guess, I just lose my drive and it doesn't come back. It sucks. I'll keep trying, but I dunno how long it'll take to get them finished. I don't want to start posting my stories online if they're not finished because I don't know when I'll be able to update. I don't wanna leave my readers hanging if I can never get around to finishing the thing. I started a fanfic once with a vampire/forbidden-love theme and I had been sending it out through email, but I left it at 10 chapters or so and totally lost my inspiration, so it went unfinished. The people I was sending it to were really disappointed in that, and I don't wanna do it again, so I'm gonna try to finish my stories now before I post them.

[Gravity]

dewfreak said:

I feel ya on this whole thing. I'm notorious for having severe bouts of writer's block that I rarely get over. I started writing a first-person Nick story set in and around 2015 or so, and reflecting back on his life, how he met and lost his first wife, remarried, and all the problems he ran into as a father and again as an expected father, where my story begins and was supposed to end with the birth of his new child. Kinda lame, I guess, but I started it about 2 or 3 years ago and I haven't been able to break my writer's block. There's another story I started recently that I'm having a lot of trouble writing, but that's for a different reason...kind of...I dunno, it's just hard for me to write this one. Maybe it's just that I'm not really motivated to write and then when I am, I get really hyped up about it but if I can't get to it within about half an hour, I guess, I just lose my drive and it doesn't come back. It sucks. I'll keep trying, but I dunno how long it'll take to get them finished. I don't want to start posting my stories online if they're not finished because I don't know when I'll be able to update. I don't wanna leave my readers hanging if I can never get around to finishing the thing. I started a fanfic once with a vampire/forbidden-love theme and I had been sending it out through email, but I left it at 10 chapters or so and totally lost my inspiration, so it went unfinished. The people I was sending it to were really disappointed in that, and I don't wanna do it again, so I'm gonna try to finish my stories now before I post them.

Yeah I'm the same way usually about posting stories only when they're finished. AWKOL is a first for me of posting while still writing, tho it is nice sometimes because feedback gives you the motovation to write. Sometimes just posting is a good idea because then you can get suggestions from others and help with getting past that block.

[mare]

writer's block sucks monkey butts!

[dewfreak]

gravity said:

dewfreak said:

I feel ya on this whole thing. I'm notorious for having severe bouts of writer's block that I rarely get over. I started writing a first-person Nick story set in and around 2015 or so, and reflecting back on his life, how he met and lost his first wife, remarried, and all the problems he ran into as a father and again as an expected father, where my story begins and was supposed to end with the birth of his new child. Kinda lame, I guess, but I started it about 2 or 3 years ago and I haven't been able to break my writer's block. There's another story I started recently that I'm having a lot of trouble writing, but that's for a different reason...kind of...I dunno, it's just hard for me to write this one. Maybe it's just that I'm not really motivated to write and then when I am, I get really hyped up about it but if I can't get to it within about half an hour, I guess, I just lose my drive and it doesn't come back. It sucks. I'll keep trying, but I dunno how long it'll take to get them finished. I don't want to start posting my stories online if they're not finished because I don't know when I'll be able to update. I don't wanna leave my readers hanging if I can never get around to finishing the thing. I started a fanfic once with a vampire/forbidden-love theme and I had been sending it out through email, but I left it at 10 chapters or so and totally lost my inspiration, so it went unfinished. The people I was sending it to were really disappointed in that, and I don't wanna do it again, so I'm gonna try to finish my stories now before I post them.

Yeah I'm the same way usually about posting stories only when they're finished. AWKOL is a first for me of posting while still writing, tho it is nice sometimes because feedback gives you the motovation to write. Sometimes just posting is a good idea because then you can get suggestions from others and help with getting past that block.

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely keep that in mind. Maybe I'll start writing one of my old stories again and try posting chapters as they're finished. This new one I want to be a total surprise, though. I have to finish it before I post it.

[Bianca]

admin said:

I have that issue too, with Not Another Teenybopper Fanfic and, to some extent, my collaboration Now or Never (although technically it's not my turn to write the next chapter, so I can use Bianca as an excuse ).

I fully admit that! We should SO work on that sometime soon... maybe that could get me to write more. We both know that I've got some MAJOR writer's block issues going on most of the time. I mean, I've been workin on the same series for YEARS.

When I get blocked, I try reading something that has inspired me before or using music that inspires me. Sometimes I can get my muse jump started and sometimes I can't. It's hard to deal with a lot of the time.

[kristy]

This thread is really making me want to go write something on one of the several stories I have started. I have nothing else to do today, and I can't sleep anymore, damn dogs, and I just really want to finish them. Even though I get discouraged because I have all these ideas in my head, and when I go to get it down, it doesn't turn out like I want. So when I reread it, I don't like it. LOL

[Julie]

kristy said:

I get discouraged because I have all these ideas in my head, and when I go to get it down, it doesn't turn out like I want. So when I reread it, I don't like it. LOL

That's what happens to me half the time LOL. I hate it, and yet, I hate rewriting too.

[kristy]

^Yep, in my case, I just throw it down and do not touch for months. It's weird, Julie, you don't like it but we LOVE it. LOL

[Julie]

LOL I've kinda realized that; maybe that's why I let it go. Like the other night, I ALMOST posted on here at like 4 a.m. looking for someone to read 198 for me because I felt like it was really disjointed and lacking something... but I almost always feel that way when I've written something in bits and pieces, so I decided to wait until morning and reread it myself then, after I'd stepped away from it for awhile, and I did, and it wasn't that bad.

And oddly enough, sometimes it's the parts that I really like when I write them that make me cringe when I read them later LOL. Usually because they're incredibly cheesy.

[sweetyfranzi]

beanstalk said:

admin said:

I have that issue too, with Not Another Teenybopper Fanfic and, to some extent, my collaboration Now or Never (although technically it's not my turn to write the next chapter, so I can use Bianca as an excuse ).

I fully admit that! We should SO work on that sometime soon... maybe that could get me to write more. We both know that I've got some MAJOR writer's block issues going on most of the time. I mean, I've been workin on the same series for YEARS.

When I get blocked, I try reading something that has inspired me before or using music that inspires me. Sometimes I can get my muse jump started and sometimes I can't. It's hard to deal with a lot of the time.

I totally feel you there. I haven't touched my story in about a year. But now things are different and old feeling are coming back. I have been reading fanfics for a couple of weeks now to get a feeling of writing again. I came up with two chaps so far but I dunno if there are good are not! lol
I know where I want to go. I have several scences in my mind but most of the time it doesn't feel right to write. It's not only the feeling to write but the feeling to write in English, too. I am German and it's my first fanfic ever.
Sometimes I feel like posting it somewhere or getting it hosted but Julie but I don't wanna disappoint anyone by not writing in months, you know?
It's a constant conflict! lol