You probably know what I'm talking about -- that time when you've hit a snag in your writing process and feel like you're stuck and just can't go on with it. It's something like writer's block, but a little bit different. Right now I have a book that I'm editing and I can't seem to get myself motivated enough to go back and work on it, so I can get it finished and sent off to an editor. We all know the feeling of working on a book til we're sick of it, and feel like we don't want to see it again for a long time, if ever. This can be especially tough if you have the internet on the same computer where you store your WIPs, and it can be EXTREMELY tempting to stay online and not work on your projects.
Sometimes switching to another WIP helps. But because I have a tendency to hyperfocus when it comes to writing novels, I have a hard time moving onto another project when I haven't completed/edited/sent the other one off to a publisher. Even with another WIP I could possibly switch to that's about one-third finished, I still can't bring myself to work on it again until I get my first one completely edited and sent off.
Since I'm not dependent on my writing for making a living, I guess I probably don't feel the same pressure to write that a professional writer would. But just the same, I do feel guilty when I go for more than a few days without writing anything. It's just that motivating myself to work on editing (which actually takes more self-discipline than writing because it's a story I've been over a gazillion times already) can be EXTREMELY difficult. Anybody else ever feel like this, and how do you get past that slump?
Sometimes switching to another WIP helps. But because I have a tendency to hyperfocus when it comes to writing novels, I have a hard time moving onto another project when I haven't completed/edited/sent the other one off to a publisher. Even with another WIP I could possibly switch to that's about one-third finished, I still can't bring myself to work on it again until I get my first one completely edited and sent off.
Since I'm not dependent on my writing for making a living, I guess I probably don't feel the same pressure to write that a professional writer would. But just the same, I do feel guilty when I go for more than a few days without writing anything. It's just that motivating myself to work on editing (which actually takes more self-discipline than writing because it's a story I've been over a gazillion times already) can be EXTREMELY difficult. Anybody else ever feel like this, and how do you get past that slump?
