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But for whatever reason, I can get anything done! I've got a fantasy, an action-horror, short story ideas, an a random bundle of papers that I could be working on, but no matter what I do, I just can't seem to put words to paper (or screen as the case may be). It's like pulling teeth with a string, but none of them are loose.
It's not that the multitude of ideas are fighting with each over for who gets to go first or anything, and almost every idea is fleshed out to the point it should be easy to start. I have characters, settings, plots.
I dunno. Maybe it's the existential dread from the real world seeping in. Maybe I subconciously doubt my skills enough to get in my own way.
I just know it's frustrating as hell. I have ideas. I WANT to write. I have TIME to write. I'm not heavily distracted by social media, I'm just sitting here at my computer, staring at a blank word processor.
Maybe part of it's because I don't have a dedicated writing space? My laptop just sits on a fold-up dinner tray table in my living room. My chair is the couch, and my mouse pad sits on the corner of an ottoman.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? Anything?
It's not that the multitude of ideas are fighting with each over for who gets to go first or anything, and almost every idea is fleshed out to the point it should be easy to start. I have characters, settings, plots.
I dunno. Maybe it's the existential dread from the real world seeping in. Maybe I subconciously doubt my skills enough to get in my own way.
I just know it's frustrating as hell. I have ideas. I WANT to write. I have TIME to write. I'm not heavily distracted by social media, I'm just sitting here at my computer, staring at a blank word processor.
Maybe part of it's because I don't have a dedicated writing space? My laptop just sits on a fold-up dinner tray table in my living room. My chair is the couch, and my mouse pad sits on the corner of an ottoman.
Any thoughts? Suggestions? Anything?