Another me post

It's July, 2018.

It's been a year and two months since I've finished college and five months since I started working. Life after college has been hella crazy. I had anxiety and depression, I stopped doing the things I love. I basically put things on hold to be able to do this whole "adulting" thing and now that I've adjusted - although not fully, I'm still working on that - I feel like I've lost a huge part of me. I would often feel that empty feeling lingering in my veins, my chest heavy at the thought of not being able to do the things I love to do, things I used to do.

I have friends who likes writing - fanfics to be specific - they always seem to know what to write, how to construct it and when to finish it. Back in college, writing stories was something I love doing. Writing became a form of escape when life gets stressful. I could sit at a table, bring my pen and paper out (or my phone) and then I'm lost in my own world. I could finish a drabble/one shot in an hour or a day.

And I guess I just miss it. I miss being able to write without stopping, being able to write until I finish it. I miss being lost in my own world, to feel free, to not feel restricted. Now, all my stories are on hold because I don't know how to continue them. All that comes to me are story ideas. I try to write them, I try to start a sentence but nothing comes out. All there is are unfinished works, writing prompts stuck in my docs, stories I want to continue but couldn't. I want to badly go back to how it used to be, when writing was easy and free. I'm trying but I guess it isn't enough.

If you could give me tips on how to go back to writing, I would really appreciate it.

Also, I'm sorry I haven't been updating but it's just hard to do so. But still, thank you for subscribing to my stories. It means a lot to me.

 

- PEACH.

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Jhellnah #1
Oh love, I TOTALLY feel for you I'm kinda in this situation myself!! I have a lot of planned stories but I never get the motive to write. But I honestly feel like it's because we're out of practice, since adulting takes so much time of our lives. I think slowly finding time in our schedule to write will bring the old passion back. I'm assuming it's a slow process but I'm sure you'll get back to it!!
solar94 #2
Hey peach ^^ *sigh* the way you've described your hardship literally hurts, because I know exactly what you're going through.
A piece of advice that helped me a lot:
I decided to tell myself 'I can't change back because I've moved forward. I've got to change my situation and make it even better than it used to be.'
Ease yourself back into writing gently - creativity is like life, it's not always going to be great and full throttle. Keep that in mind and don't be too hard on yourself. Adulting is weird and hard, but you can do it peach chingu ^^ x
Warm up exercises also helped me A LOT, they might be able to help you too: http://www.writersdigest.com/prompts
sleepingprince #3
Actually I can understand and relate to you in a way . I think you're still under the transistion period where you are still learning to get used to adulting .

I think one way to solve the problem is to actually write a story about you ? Use your everyday life story and journey and turn it into a fanfic with some changes here and there.. That way you dont really have to think too much for ideas. The ideas come from your life itself. That way its also easier to write and visualized things since its something that you experience therefore you can relate.
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