Re: Output, oh output. Wherefore art thou, output?

Date: 04/12/2019 18:05 (UTC)
thrillingdetectivetales: Davie and Alan from the play, Kidnapped, kissing on the moors. Both men's faces are obscured. Davie has a hand on Alan's cheek. (Fury - Bible laughing helmet)
From: [personal profile] thrillingdetectivetales
/sigh If I could in any way ensure myself a reasonable amount of free time, I would. Unfortunately working in a creative field doesn't leave a tremendous amount of time to work on one's own personal passions.

And yeah, I mean, I'm definitely also writing in my head all the time. Like, even beyond just trying to get a general feel for where a story's going to go, I'll start to craft actual sentences I want to put down on paper, so to speak, the next time I have a moment. This does not, of course, mean that I always know where a story will go but I think getting stuck on plot development is a separate issue from what I'm trying to get after here.

I'm with you on the whole, "writing as stress relief" thing, which I used to do at my last job—it was terrible and I was so wildly depressed that I was writing like 5K a day just to be able to dissociate from life for awhile, but that's obviously not sustainable for a multitude of reasons. I still write for stress relief a little bit, but I think as I've started to approach writing as a thing I might want to actually do as an eventual career my confidence has taken a slight downswing because I'm coming at it from too serious an angle? I guess maybe I need to get my head on straight about that bit, but in the meantime I don't know if I ought to try a schedule or something?

Part of the issue, I think, is maintaining my enthusiasm for a current story when I already know how it ends in my head and I keep stumbling into other exciting ideas courtesy sources like the prompt meme or chatting with folks like yourself. Anyway, I feel like I'm just whining and navel-gazing about it now, so I'll stop.

I'm sure it's a surmountable goal in one way or another, and I appreciate your feedback and advice, friend~ <3
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