Over the past couple of weeks I have become increasingly exhausted and have found I haven't been able to find he energy to write, and what I do write doesn't seem to me to be as good as I'd like (as with my recent poem I have uploaded) has anyone got any advice on hoe to get back into the swing of writing as often as I used to? I feel so odd being too tired to write o.O it's never happened before :(
Definitely try writing in a different place. I don't seem to be able to write in my bedroom anymore. Or at home, for that matter. Worryingly, I keep finding myself in the Ikea cafe eating rhubarb crumble. Tonight I bought an egg pan so I didn't have to go through the tills empty handed again.
*blushes*
Well, I don't think I'm in position to advise, but – if help in something – I'd say you take a rest for a few days wouldn't wrong, but that yes, maintaining your story in your head.
Good luck! :)
I know exactly how you feel, Victoria - I am experiencing the same and it's really getting me down. I have loads of competitions I'd been planning to enter, but I've spent the last week at my computer and have written very little at all, and nothing I'm proud of. I'd been trying to improve my poetry too, and I'm finding that suddenly impossible, far, far worse than prose.
I know this sounds silly, but I was wondering whether it might be the weather?! It's so hot :-( I don't seem to have much energy for anything at the moment and my creativity levels are underground. These are some of the things I've been trying - some have worked, some haven't. Hopefully you'll find that many work for you.
1. Put on some music (no lyrics). Film music is good - then just write SOMETHING, even if it's just the emotions it's trying to convey.
2. Look for competitions with a brief - a given theme might strike your imagination.
3. Try writing in a different place.
4. Edit something you've already written.
5. Write a review for a product on Amazon - it'll satisfy the urge to get something interesting down and though it's not fiction, it's still technically creative.
6. Flip through a poetry/short story anthology or look at your bookshelf. Pick a title and adopt it - then write something with the same title. This works better if you don't know the original story/poem.
7. Write down your dreams (I honestly had one last night about two married puppets who lived in a mansion. The female puppet wanted to leave the male puppet, so he hired a gang of parsnips and carrots to chop off her nose.) Then either write the story, or base a dialogue around it - for example, pretend that a character has had the dream and is relating it to a friend. Then build up their backstory, their relationship, the friend's reaction, why the character had the dream in the first place - it's weird, but at least you have a definite starting point and saves you from thinking of something really creative (I know I would never have thought of the puppet thing! It has left me utterly baffled.)
All easier said than done, but hopefully something will take your fancy. Good luck - and I hope that the creativity returns! :-)