It's been a minute since I last wrote a story

[hfernandez1983]

As the title suggests, it's been a hot minute since I last sat down and let my creative juices flow and write a story.

There was a time when i would sit down for hours and just write even though if it were just a few pages. These days it's difficult to get through just 30 mins before i think about giving up.

It's not that I don't have ideas... I do but I don't know how to get over this rut I'm in where I either give up or sort of get lazy and prolong writing something down. Sometimes I feel like my ideas are too over the top or maybe people will go wtf? Other times when i actually have tried to write it feels like my skills aren't what they used to be... So it feels like a crazy mashup of so much that I just feel lost.

To all the other authors out there. Has anyone else gone through this and then come back to writing? How did you overcome it?

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

I often return to others’ stories that I like, re-read them. It often inspires me to want to achieve something similar.

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

There was a time when i would sit down for hours and just write even though if it were just a few pages. These days it's difficult to get through just 30 mins before i think about giving up.

It's not that I don't have ideas... I do but I don't know how to get over this rut I'm in where I either give up or sort of get lazy and prolong writing something down.

Everything we accomplish has to start with us doing something. While methods of making accomplishments vary, getting something done a little at a time (slow and steady) rather than in a furious rush (like it appears you used to do) is fairly common. However, that takes the will to try and keep trying. My advice, based on literally decades of extensive experience* (ha ha!) is to do what you can in small pieces if necessary and take pride in your small accomplishments as you push toward the overall goal. That may help you keep going to actually reach the goal in time.

*It's not uncommon for some of my published stories to have been in development for several years.

 

[StillStunned]

I agree with @Voyeurkenneth: there's no greater inspiration than reading other people's books and stories. Let it build inside you long enough until it bursts out.

 

[SimonDoom]

I agree with the idea of reading other authors' stories. That's always been a good source of inspiration for me. In a way it's what made me start writing erotica in the first place. I'd been reading it for about 20 years online and kept thinking, "I can do that!" I wanted to try certain themes and ideas in my own way, so I did. I don't read erotica as much as I used to and I wonder if the inspiration has run a bit dry as a result, because my publication pace is nowhere near what it used to be.

 

[ElectricBlue]

To all the other authors out there. Has anyone else gone through this and then come back to writing? How did you overcome it?

I'm always writing, but not always publishing. It's never something that I fret about, because the words are always there - sometimes they're kept private, is all it is.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

As the title suggests, it's been a hot minute since I last sat down and let my creative juices flow and write a story.

There was a time when i would sit down for hours and just write even though if it were just a few pages. These days it's difficult to get through just 30 mins before i think about giving up.

It's not that I don't have ideas... I do but I don't know how to get over this rut I'm in where I either give up or sort of get lazy and prolong writing something down. Sometimes I feel like my ideas are too over the top or maybe people will go wtf? Other times when i actually have tried to write it feels like my skills aren't what they used to be... So it feels like a crazy mashup of so much that I just feel lost.

To all the other authors out there. Has anyone else gone through this and then come back to writing? How did you overcome it?

I get the impression you're focusing on the potential output rather than the process, the joy of creation. Write for yourself. Let it be garbage. That's ok. It's the writing that matters, the loosing of your creative powers. If you want to, you can fix it later. Of course, the converse is true. Write to write. Write for yourself. To hell with 'us.' Just write.

 

[hfernandez1983]

*It's not uncommon for some of my published stories to have been in development for several years.

I've had a few ideas over the years and there were a couple that i extensively built up. But since the things that I write about, that give me joy, are very "out there" the idea and the extension of it seems so implausible.

I often return to others’ stories that I like, re-read them. It often inspires me to want to achieve something similar.

I like reading stories about the themes that I write. But then I find that most of those tend to go down the more domination and humiliation aspects of femdom while I prefer to write more about a loving relationship where a couple can explore their kinks. Those kinds of stories are a bit rare.

I get the impression you're focusing on the potential output rather than the process, the joy of creation. Write for yourself.

I mean I guess yeah i do care about the output as in how it turns out. As for the process of writing it down I remember when i churned out my 4 parter (which is on lit) and I wanted to do more but while the idea was there the process of getting there became hard.


I guess I will try to start finding some stuff to read that I like and try to go on from there to see if the juices start flowing again. Thank you to everyone that has responded so far.