How do you guys get yourself out of a writing funk?

[ixris]

Endings are my worst nightmare. I used to never end things, and as a result, my endings now are awful. I'm so bad at them.

I can set-up a conflict, sail through build-up and release of tension. I can A and B plot until the cows come home. But that final conflict and resolution ... woof.

The only thing I can do for it is to just keep plodding. It's no fun, and it's honestly a pain in my neck, but I won't get better without practicing. So while I feel like my entire body is on fire every time I sit down at the keys and I have so many BETTER ideas for my next project, I keep chasing those magical words 'The End.'

Ultimately, writing is work. I treat it like work. Sometimes work sucks. Sometimes it sucks to write. But this is the price I pay for being lazy about my stories when I was a fledgling writer.

Two things that actually help me feel motivated to finish:

• This might be the time I get it right! (I live in hope - I haven't first-tried an ending yet lol!)
• Building my next story in notes form in a notebook that I'm only allowed to add to, not to read, until I'm finished my current project. Eventually the pressure gets so big to start the new thing that I just say screw it and hammer my way through to the end, because gosh dang it I want to start my next new thing!

Hoping your funk passes soon and you can get back into things.

 

[Theraig]

As the title says. I seem to have this issue with my writing where I'll get to a point in the story that I just cannot figure out how to continue. I'll revisit it several times but nothing ever comes so the project just stays unfinished.

So I was just curious if you guys ever have this issue and I'd love to see you're strategies for fighting writers block.

I try to imagine the end of the story and then start to work from there. i try to imagine how to get there.

 

[MudDobber]

seriously i just start writing, even if its gibberish. i think the real issue is not necessarily being in a funk so much as stopping your process. you're your greastest enemy in that sense.

 

[Gurkhal]

seriously i just start writing, even if its gibberish. i think the real issue is not necessarily being in a funk so much as stopping your process. you're your greastest enemy in that sense.

Being your own greatest enemy is very true in my case.

 

[pmmg]

Always pays to be insightful.

 

[Gurkhal]

Always pays to be insightful.

Yes. But its only really useful if it can lead to something being done.

 

[pmmg]

Maybe we need some insight on why stuffs not getting done