Sometimes you just need to call in the plumbers.
I’ve been struggling with Writer’s Block in one form or another for the last couple of weeks. It never got so bad that I was sitting down to write but no words coming out.
Instead, I was finding that I just couldn’t get to the writing stage. There were ideas and scenes bouncing around being mulled over, but nothing was coming out onto the page.
With a couple of deadlines rapidly approaching, I was beginning to get a little bit concerned about not having written anything down for a while, when things just unblocked themselves in the last 48 hours.
After so long without getting anywhere with the stories I have under development, I was very pleased to find that after a couple of good writing sessions, I was a lot further along the path to completion than I thought I was going to get.
It’s a good sign. Not just for the short stories coming out soon, but also for the range of stories that are sitting in various stages of completion.
I hadn’t taken any time off writing on purpose, but it just kind of happened. I was always busy, but now things are settling back down again and it should be all better.
Speaking of time off, I expect that my pace of writing will be slowing over the Christmas / New Year period. I have been wrong before about thinking that my muse was going to take some time off, so there may be even more to enjoy than I initially thought I was going to have.