I had a post like this a while back as well (http://xtinethepirate.livejournal.com/77765.html#cutid1) and the best advice I got? Was to sit back and relax. You're not being paid to write this stuff, it's supposed to be FUN, not work. And the moment it becomes work, the moment it brings you down and makes you teary, it's time to get up and get away from the computer. Sometimes stories aren't just meant to be, you know?
BUT. Something that might perk you up. One of my favourite authors is Neil Gaiman, and I only just recently got a chance to read one of his more recent books, "Coraline". And in the back of the book, he says (and I quote)
"More than ten years ago, I started to write [Coraline]. The story, which I had been writing in my own time... ground to a halt. Years passed.... I bought a notebook, and started to write in it. It sat on my bedside table, and for the next couple of years I would scrawl fifty words, sometimes a hundred words, before I went to sleep. ...It's the strangest book I've written, it took the longest to write, and it's the book I'm proudest of."
My point is that writer's block like this happens to everyone. Write what you want when you're inspired to do it, set it aside when you're not, or else you'll lose the reason that we write in fandoms.
Believe me, I definitely know what you're going through. I have written a grand total of one fic since January, and it was a 2 page extended drabble. But you never know what's lurking around the next bend. Last summer I was in a fandom and writing rut, hadn't written anything for 3 months. Then ALG came along, and all of a sudden I couldn't turn the creative side of my brain off.
You're an amazing writer. That isn't just going to dry up and blow away. Wait for it to come back and it will... and try not to kill yourself in the meantime. ♥!
(and I have -- FINALLY -- your CD all made and in the envelope and addressed... only to be told at the desk that they didn't have any more international stamps. I'm checking back on Monday, and then it will be on its way.)
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BUT. Something that might perk you up. One of my favourite authors is Neil Gaiman, and I only just recently got a chance to read one of his more recent books, "Coraline". And in the back of the book, he says (and I quote)
"More than ten years ago, I started to write [Coraline]. The story, which I had been writing in my own time... ground to a halt. Years passed.... I bought a notebook, and started to write in it. It sat on my bedside table, and for the next couple of years I would scrawl fifty words, sometimes a hundred words, before I went to sleep. ...It's the strangest book I've written, it took the longest to write, and it's the book I'm proudest of."
My point is that writer's block like this happens to everyone. Write what you want when you're inspired to do it, set it aside when you're not, or else you'll lose the reason that we write in fandoms.
Believe me, I definitely know what you're going through. I have written a grand total of one fic since January, and it was a 2 page extended drabble. But you never know what's lurking around the next bend. Last summer I was in a fandom and writing rut, hadn't written anything for 3 months. Then ALG came along, and all of a sudden I couldn't turn the creative side of my brain off.
You're an amazing writer. That isn't just going to dry up and blow away. Wait for it to come back and it will... and try not to kill yourself in the meantime. ♥!
(and I have -- FINALLY -- your CD all made and in the envelope and addressed... only to be told at the desk that they didn't have any more international stamps. I'm checking back on Monday, and then it will be on its way.)