Why my creative energy has been zapped.

[tju_tju_tju_tju]

(originally posted on my tumblr)

I actually think I know part of the reason I don’t really write anything anymore.

It’s partly because I’m not in school anymore. I got so much writing done during class time. My senior year of high school especially I was writing during so many of my classes. I rarely ever wrote at home, and when I did it was only for short spurts, like drabbles. There’s the exception of the novella-length Heroes/Music & Lyrics adaptation I did, since I wrote that over… the summer I think? But still.

Even when I worked the customer service desk for that brief period, I wrote a couple of short and stupid stories with my Friends Like Enemies characters during the stretches of time I wasn’t doing anything. I suppose it has to do with being stuck in a place where there either isn’t anything to do except write something, or I don’t want to do anything except write something. I’m having other problems with my “writer’s block” besides just that, i.e. lack of motivation, being out of practice, not having any confidence in myself, etc. But not being trapped in a place where there is nothing to do except write or read is definitely one of the issues (because I’ve been having a problem with not reading NEARLY as much as I used to).

lol real life ruins creativity guys

Comments

[blueeyelinerx.livejournal.com]

Oh man, this is so true of me. I wrote SO MUCH in college and now I'm lucky if I finish 1 piece a year. I just can't muster up the energy. Real life, why must you interfere??

[tju-tju-tju-tju.livejournal.com]

Real life is stupid. >:( And while I was at work today I suddenly got inspired for... well, I've been playing the Elder Scrolls games and I got a huge burst of inspiration for two of the characters I created, and I was in the back madly scribbling down backstories for both of them and now I want to write Elder Scrolls fanfic but I would never post it anywhere since I don't know the lore well enough and no one would even read it probably BUT MY IDEAS ARE SO COOL UGH. Also I really shouldn't be writing fanfic now, anyway. I should really be writing my screenplay. But the problem with the screenplay is I do get excited to write it, but it's only when I am away from my computer, and by the time I come back home I don't want to write it anymore.