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[avrelia]

I have this strange aversion to writing lately. It’s not that I don’t like it – it is one of my favorite things to do, but I can’t seem to write anything longer than 500 words. I start and abandon things – posts, essays, reviews of stuff I read and watched, stories. I don’t have an excuse. Or maybe I do, but I don’t think it is useful. I suddenly feel my age, and I don’t like it. I feel the weight of all the dreams and plans and hopes I had that are not going to be realized ever. I keep thinking what I should have done, and I keep doing nothing, besides functioning. I still have dreams and plans and hopes, but I am afraid to commit to any of them, fearing I will have to abandon them.

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[shadowkat]

Yup, go through that from time to time myself. Then I realize - I'm writing to get the story out, the rest doesn't really matter. And that helps, sometimes.

Struggling with revising a story at the moment. Seemingly unable to write much else.

[avrelia]

I walk around with a story in my head, and then I sit down to write, and I am distracted. Even using all kinds of fighting distraction tricks, it is hard. With the added "bonus" of realization that time is not on my side anymore.

Good luck with the revisions!

[shadowkat]

Having the same issues. I honestly think social media has hurt it a bit - or my knowledge of the insane amount of content out there. I swear if I see one more advertisement about how to market your novel, how to write a book, or look at "the book I just wrote and sold millions, you can do it too", or "how great is Colleen Hoover and how did she do it?" - I will kill my connection to the frigging internet.