Inspiration

[maplemood]

...is tricky and frustrating and never arrives on time, but I can't keep up work on a story without a little of it, at least at the start. Still, I don't always have the time or the energy to work on every single idea that pops into my head (and honestly only about a quarter of the ideas I get are workable once I try getting them down on paper) so right now I'm telling myself that it's okay to work on just one or two things at a time, and that I don't have to be constantly writing, or working on ten different stories at once. But I still have so much anxiety when it comes to productivity. Like, if I'm not writing those ten different stories, and if each one isn't perfect, I must be doing something wrong. Which is completely stupid and illogical. But it's how I feel right now.

Comments

[paynesgrey]

I hope inspiration comes to you!

[maplemood]

Thanks. It always does, sooner or later, but for some reason I can never stop stressing about it. Oh, well.

[strangelyjonathan]

I find that completely relatable. I have a lot of ideas for stories, and a lot of partial stories. Lately, I just can't seem to complete any of them. It's like there are some gaps, and what I have for them either isn't good enough, or I'm drawing a blank.

[maplemood]

Exactly! And then I usually get to as point where I start to wonder if those ideas and beginnings were really any good after all. But that blank feeling where you just can't figure out what to write next is the worst.

[springviolets]

i don't know how you could work on so many stories at a time! doing one or two is definitely okay, and i hope more inspiration for them finds you :)

[maplemood]

Yeah, I could never work on that many stories at once. It's definitely an anxiety thing, where I feel like I have to be constantly productive and constantly good, and what ends up happening is that I stress about it so much that I can't be either. It's been getting better over the past month or so, though. I just have to keep reminding myself that not being some kind of writing machine is okay.