Worst Dry Spell Ever

[Cruel2BKind]

During May I had a fantastic bit of luck and I managed to write two chapters in a matter of days, which is freakishly fast for me.

Almost as if to punish me, I've barely written a word since then.

I finally managed to finish a little side story I started as a joke, and to make some progress on my bigger projects. I feel so much better.

What's the longest dry spell/writers block you've ever suffered.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I have written about a four paragraphs, about 1,000 words, since the tag-team challenge, that was back in April.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I don't have blocks, I have bouts of fuck it.

 

[allamagione]

Six years.

And punishment is exactly what it feels like.

Sounds like you've broken through it, though.

 

[Montanos]

To be honest, I don't write erotica.

A few years ago, I wrote a small short story and submitted it to literotica for EDITING. I thought that was the way to get an editor. Silly me.

So I accidentally check ... oh ... 3 months ago? I notice that the short story, which I had completely forgotten about AND lost in one of two hard drive failure's I've had, was listed under this account.

UNEDITED.

Son of a gun!

Now, if you mean writing, regardless of topic, I write all the time. Every day I write at least a paragraph of SOMETHING. It helps me break through blockades very quickly by offloading my half-thought ideas onto paper so I don't forget them.

I have a pretty large file with BOOK IDEAS and QUOTES that come to me: names, topics, catch phrases, particular character portfolios, etc.

I finished a 150k word Sci-fi novel in April (2014). I haven't published because it used some copyrighted ideas. Trying to get a "go ahead" from the copyright owner. Good guy, but I think he's stringing me along. Already have a 2nd book file and I'm altering that removes all aspects of the copyright material. A backup, if you will. I want to tell my stories, but not going to screw someone over simply so I can get a kick out of it.

So, no, I'm always writing. I haven't had a dry spell in two years.

Montanos

 

[sr71plt]

August of 1997 to the first week of 2000 was pretty dry. I was otherwise busy.

 

[Hypoxia]

Since starting to write fiction about 10.5 months ago, I've had a couple dry spells that lasted almost a week each. Before that, my non-factual writings were mostly songs. I kinda dried up there after, hmmm, 2006 or 2008, and I've only managed a few verses since. Not that I really tried...

The cure for blockage is a bypass. I'm blocked on a few stories now, so I bypass them -- I've set those aside and am concentrating on easy-to-write tales. I should finish two or three more A TASTE OF INCEST episodes this week. Piece of pie. Easy as cake.

 

[patientlee]

1972-2011.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Six years.

And punishment is exactly what it feels like.

Sounds like you've broken through it, though.

Feels great, I hope I can keep it up

1972-2011.

Doesn't count silly.

 

[JKendallDane]

I hit an "I don't wanna" wall about 60 days ago and am slowly peeling myself off of it.

Fortunately some recent feedback touched me deeply and stirred the muse, so hopefully this "self exile" from the keyboard won't last as long as the eight or nine month stretch did in 2011 and 2012.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Feels great, I hope I can keep it up



Doesn't count silly.

Kewl, the world needs more PILOT lite.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

1972-2011.

Unless you're like 70 years old and I just didn't know..

 

[soflabbwlvr]

I've gone 18 months without completing anything or even getting past page 1. When I broke out of that slump it was with some of my best stories yet. Now I'm working on an 8 month dry spell. I hope it breaks off the same way. I have some ambitious projects lined up.

 

[49greg]

I've been in a block since I did the Nanowrimo thing last November. I did get a few things done, but it's slow going. What I've been doing to get out of a slump is to just continue writing. Mostly I spew out crap, but sometimes a spark lights and I can actually do something I like.

Most of what I've done this year is to finish up stories I had started last year.

 

[patientlee]

Unless you're like 70 years old and I just didn't know..

Nah. 42. I couldn't write anything before 2011 though.

 

[TamLin01]

Never.

Oh, there are times when I might not feel like writing, or when I don't want to write as much as I did previously, or when I don't like the ideas I'm getting. But when that happens I sit down and write anyhow. Never going to solve the problem any other damn way.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

For now its too damn hot to write. In the 90s every day. So I'm reading a lot. Just bought an old copy of DEATH WISH by Brian? Garfield. The movie was popular in the 70s.

 

[allamagione]

Never.

Oh, there are times when I might not feel like writing, or when I don't want to write as much as I did previously, or when I don't like the ideas I'm getting. But when that happens I sit down and write anyhow. Never going to solve the problem any other damn way.

This method reminds me of splinter removal.

When I was a kid, my dad would go at my splinters like a brain surgeon with a sterilized needle, meticulously picking at each individual layer of skin until he got down to the offending speck. After about a half hour of this "gentle" digging around, I would have preferred he cut my hand off.

I much preferred my mom's method: Tape some raw bacon to it and forget about it. It will work itself out.

 

[Montanos]

For now its too damn hot to write. In the 90s every day. So I'm reading a lot. Just bought an old copy of DEATH WISH by Brian? Garfield. The movie was popular in the 70s.

Death Wish, what a fun movie. Pretty bloody for the era, but fun.

Montanos

 

[Montanos]

This method reminds me of splinter removal.

Only if Tam doesn't enjoy the effort.

Seriously, you equate what Tam wrote and her methodology with 'splinter removal'?

*Bonk*! That's silly.

Though ... I confess my -mother- did that meticulous splinter crud thing on me one time. After that, I never told her about splinters again, I would cut them out with a knife if I had to!

Montanos

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Death Wish, what a fun movie. Pretty bloody for the era, but fun.

Montanos

The reviews report that Paul, the shooter, lacks 'The Edge' Charles Bronson brought to the role. But that's OK. Balding chubby guys need more celebrating.

 

[allamagione]

Only if Tam doesn't enjoy the effort.

Seriously, you equate what Tam wrote and her methodology with 'splinter removal'?

*Bonk*! That's silly.

Though ... I confess my -mother- did that meticulous splinter crud thing on me one time. After that, I never told her about splinters again, I would cut them out with a knife if I had to!

Montanos

Well, yeah, that's what it feels like for me! Writing and writing and getting nowhere and wincing over every word.

I'm not knocking her method. We all gotta do what works for us.

 

[Serafina1210]

I'm in a dry spell now--but it's in my other writing life (non-erotic, non-fiction). I'm writing erotica obsessively and not writing the other stuff.

 

[patientlee]

Well, yeah, that's what it feels like for me! Writing and writing and getting nowhere and wincing over every word.

I'm not knocking her method. We all gotta do what works for us.

That's me all the time. If I were writing any slower, they'd call it erasing.

 

[allamagione]

That's me all the time. If I were writing any slower, they'd call it erasing.

And don't forget the infinite typeover. This sentence will surely be better the 6th time I've written it!