Writer Sanctum
Writer's Haven => Quill and Feather Pub [Public] => Topic started by: Lynn on March 21, 2020, 02:00:09 AM
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I'm bailing on the news today. I've been reading far too much of it and leaving no time for creativity. I'm not good a separating my writing from whatever is going on in my head, so things that make me anxious tend to stop my writing cold.
Have you been inspired by the craziness going on around us right now or are you too distracted (worried, etc) to write? Are you writing more or less than usual?
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Are you writing more or less than usual?
More.
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Are you writing more or less than usual?
More.
You're working out your frustrations with humanity's idiocy in your fic, aren't you? :D
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Came down with a case of writer's block earlier in the week. WIP is 80% done, but I can't motivate myself. So, instead, I spend my time designing and building scale models from scratch. This too shall pass.
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Are you writing more or less than usual?
More.
You're working out your frustrations with humanity's idiocy in your fic, aren't you? :D
To some extent, yes.
Also had a change in meds, which seems to have helped.
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Have you been inspired by the craziness going on around us right now or are you too distracted (worried, etc) to write? Are you writing more or less than usual?
I would replace "distracted" with "fascinated". I've never before had my suspicions and doubts so vividly confirmed. The bulk of mankind is in a horrible state.
My work(s) in progress will ultimately benefit. The actual "crisis" won't be of much use to me, just the idiocy surrounding it.
But to your quesion--I'm not advancing my WIP much these past few days because my fascination with idiots is too distracting at the moment.
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Are you writing more or less than usual?
More.
You're working out your frustrations with humanity's idiocy in your fic, aren't you? :D
To some extent, yes.
Also had a change in meds, which seems to have helped.
Drugs, yep, they help! (The legal kind, obviously - I like red wine.)
I'm editing just now, which is always a bit hit and miss, but trying to keep going after a couple of bad days earlier in the week. If I get my headphones on I can generally forget about the world for a bit in fiction.
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You know what? I should pull out my headphones. It might make me feel a little more cut off from the noise! :)
My life hasn't actually changed much at all (unless you count the fact that I now don't have to feel guilty over staying home ALL THE TIME). :D I just let myself get sucked into daily news reading (hourly, in fact) and it's been a huge distraction.
If I were better at routines, I might not have stopped writing through this. But I was already avoiding my WIP so this came at just the right time to pull me away completely.
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Are you writing more or less than usual?
Less. Hard to have any motivation when (a) you have no idea if you'll even survive to finish anything and (b) if there will be anyone to even read it later.
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Business as usual for me.
I abandoned the news years ago. So it doesn't distract me.
The only content I read related to CV is on this forum and the memes on Reddit ("COD" = Call of Duty):
(https://i.imgur.com/k19UTqP.png)
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Having everybody home is my biggest hurdle to overcome. The kids should get their work from school next week and I will sit outside if it is nice or in the car in the garage if it isn't and try to write every morning while they are doing their work. If I can do that and type it in every evening, I can keep making progress.
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I scheduled an appointment with a podiatrist regarding the abscess on my toe. Perhaps the infection won't kill me after all, assuming I can hold out a few days.
Came down with a case of writer's block earlier in the week. WIP is 80% done, but I can't motivate myself. So, instead, I spend my time designing and building scale models from scratch. This too shall pass.
Got any pics? I'd be interested in seeing your models if you're willing to share.
(https://i.imgur.com/k19UTqP.png)
Say what you want about the tenets of social distancing, Dude, but at least it's an ethos. :icon_mrgreen:
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I spent all day yesterday outside. We don't have a large property by country standards but it's large enough to get in plenty of exercise just walking from one end to the other, and the old orchard apple trees are in full bloom, plus our one peach tree and many hundreds of bulbs. It's a great time to be outdoors, and the weather has been balmy. There's always something to do on the property.
The world situation is very distracting, and there is a certain element of deprivation in self quarantining. Today I finally got back to my WIP and started writing a new scene. I feel confident I will continue working on it tomorrow.
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When I attempt to write on any of my WIPs, my ideas and plots seem to pale into insignificance with the real-life drama at our doorstep. So, one way to look at it may be that any plot I can conceive of has no hope of competing with the present circumstances. The other way to look at it should probably be, that our books, our febrile imaginations, are what is going to assist the world to escape their terrors for a brief moment. It is almost our duty to see to it that our voices are not silenced by the horror surrounding us, that we continue to provide that glimmer of freedom from the living nightmare unfolding around us. Even a best case scenario/outcome has many millions across the globe perishing, financial ruin for a host of businesses and investors that no amount of governmental rescue packages can hope to forestall, death affecting almost the entire population of the planet we call home.
Though I absolutely struggle to write even a word or two each day, I am compelled to at least give it a try, for without our form of reachable entertainment, that briefest of respite for millions of human beings caught up in the worst calamity to befall our planet for many years, they may begin to lose hope, or worse, turn on each other. If my pathetic attempt at this writing gig helps even one soul to find some hope in the bleak forecasts offered by the experts, then I see it as a privilege I am not able to shun for selfish reasons.
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Actually, I find myself alternately inspired by the craziness but then too distracted to write. Overall, I seem to be getting as many pages written as usual, but somebody else might think they are complete drivel. I
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I keep trying to get started writing again, but so far I'm having no luck at all. I have definitely been seeking solace in TV. I've watched more movies in the last two weeks than I had watched in the previous 6 months or more. I prefer TV series but movies feel like less of a commitment. :D
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I always spend 2-3 hours on the net every AM, taking the pulse of current events, technology, politics, and the writing business. When the virus story started breaking in December, it caught my interest. I was nearly ready to send out my current WIP to beta readers, but a virus based story line kept intruding on my concentration. On January 15th, I gave up, and started writing what has become
‘After The Virus Apocalypse’, which is fiction today, but...
What if a bio-weapon escapes after mutating and the cure no longer works. Suppose it mutates again while infecting the initial victims, goes dormant if the victim -recovers, and returns, without symptoms, to be contagious again before killing the weakened host.
Now on Amazon at: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0861GSR81
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I don't even want to watch anything new. Just things I have seen before. Surprises are not my friend right now.
Rumor here is that school will soon be cancelled until May 1st. Once the homeschooling settles into a groove I may try to figure out when I can write, maybe.