This happened to me when I started getting out of depression. I found that the stories I’d always had bouncing around in my head were no longer there suddenly, because that energy was in the present instead of my head.
Something that helped me was changing the direction the words were coming from. I was so used to drawing the words out of longing that for a while I couldn’t draw them out of happiness. I had to actively work on tapping into that source, and changing how I viewed people’s motives/thoughts (in real life and in story context). Once I did that I could relate again, and draw inspiration from that common frame of reference.
Another thing that helped me was beta reading. I would be editing someone’s paper/fic, and find myself going “this is how I would have done/said it”. And things progressed from there. Also, I started listening to a broader range of music/reading a broader range of books, which helped because a lot of my inspiration came from clicking with something, and since my personal reference was changing the same things didn’t click with me as they had before. When I started branching out, I found things that did.
Also, I find that “just writing” does help. When I’m not feeling something, I just throw generic stuff out there, and it helps kick-start my brain and give me a foundation for ideas to come from.
**gives you big hug, because she isn’t sure if any of this will help you**
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Date: 2008-10-27 08:29 pm (UTC)Something that helped me was changing the direction the words were coming from. I was so used to drawing the words out of longing that for a while I couldn’t draw them out of happiness. I had to actively work on tapping into that source, and changing how I viewed people’s motives/thoughts (in real life and in story context). Once I did that I could relate again, and draw inspiration from that common frame of reference.
Another thing that helped me was beta reading. I would be editing someone’s paper/fic, and find myself going “this is how I would have done/said it”. And things progressed from there. Also, I started listening to a broader range of music/reading a broader range of books, which helped because a lot of my inspiration came from clicking with something, and since my personal reference was changing the same things didn’t click with me as they had before. When I started branching out, I found things that did.
Also, I find that “just writing” does help. When I’m not feeling something, I just throw generic stuff out there, and it helps kick-start my brain and give me a foundation for ideas to come from.
**gives you big hug, because she isn’t sure if any of this will help you**
Glad to know the boy makes you happy though.