The Phases of Not Writing
Jul. 4th, 2025 07:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The writer does well to intimately familiarize themselves with the phases of not-writing, so they can identify the portents. I have three.
- Doesn't Want to Write (But Does Anyway)
- Doesn't Want to Write (Does Everything Else) a.k.a Blocked
- Burnout (💀)
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Anyway, I'm at #2. The blogging engine is going great, thanks for asking!
As for my book, I'm (As of this moment) 80/20 this is a legacy problem. This is my 3rd attempt to write this book, and I've changed a lot as a writer and now I'm pivoting aggressively away from romance (both for personal and practical reasons, and that's a later post lalalala) so there are things that need to be recalibrated. I'll get to it, after I'm done playing with my toys! skips away into coding wonderland