Angela Scott
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8/22/2016

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I'm going to be honest: Writing used to be a joy and a pleasure. The little voices in my head constantly nagged at me until I TRULY felt no choice but to listen and to write their stories. My characters were my friends and my family.

Lately, I feel none of this--no joy, no pleasure, and the voices have fallen silent. It's been like this for months now. Lots of months.

It scares me a little. Am I dried up? Am I done? Am I no longer a writer? (Well, you can't be a writer unless you write, obviously, and I haven't really been doing much of that).

I thought taking a break, pulling back from the writing scene, might be what I needed. A break is good when you feel burned out, right?

Only this break seems to hanging onto me, not wanting to let go any time soon.

I need to find the joy again. I need to find the voices.

But where do I even begin to start?

This is where I am right now, taking baby steps to get out of this "funk," because this isn't a fun place to be.

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Stephanie Welch
8/27/2016 10:08:23 pm

You are an awesome writer!! I have been patiently waiting for anyone else. Please don't give up!!!

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Ale
9/21/2016 11:44:39 am

I am in the same boat as you. I love writing and I spent for the first time in my life one month of just writing and writing in August. I wrote a lot, around 40,000 words and edited the first part of my novel. Now it's September and I have realized that I cannot be a full-time writer because I nearly loose my mind, I started to hate my characters and to doubt myself. I blamed them for my frustrations. But my characters don't have the fault. I give myself deadlines and those deadlines kill me. It's September and I haven't written a single word. I am drained. What most help me now is to read and give myself time. Writing is my solace, but I cannot live solely through it (which saddens me). I am giving myself time to get back on track and now I know that I cannot force myself upon it.
Though we all writers experience hardship, we endure. Hope you feel better! Don't give up, my friend!

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