Writing Frustrations

[kiranwearsscienceblues]

Bah, writing has been such a mess for me this past year and it's driving me insane. When I was in grad school, I managed to write more than 120K of fic in a year, even while working on my dissertation -- but now that I'm out of academia (hell, currently unemployed), with much more reasonable hours and more free time? No siree, can't write at all. I think I probably wrote maximum 500 words all of 2021, and I'm getting pretty close to two years of just no writing. I've never had a block this bad; before, even if I wasn't in a writing swing, I would still write a oneshot every few months.

Not sure what to do at this point. I gave it time, to see if the inspiration would come back on its own. I've tried to push through the block and just write, but to no avail. Even when I do get my daily 500 down, I lose the thread the next day and can't seem to finish even a one-shot. I definitely need to find the inspiration again, but I'm not sure how. I'm sure the insomnia isn't helping much, but my insomnia is getting marginally better (although I say this on three hours of sleep), and the writing isn't coming back.

Anybody have any tips about breaking out of a bad writers block? 

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[kiranwearsscienceblues]

Thanks! <3

Yeah, I'm trying to branch out and revisit a bunch of old WIPs and poke at new half-baked ideas. I'm still only managing about 500 words a week, but it's far more creative energy than I've had for the past year and a half. And then the days I'm literally just not getting anything, at least there's some creative energy in things like cooking. So. Slow improvement, which is frustrating, but it's there.

Guess I'll just have to keep working with what I do have and slowly kindle it back up, bit by bit. :) Thanks for your support!