How do?? I think I'm broken?

I've been trying to get back into writing but every time I open my writing app, I blank out OTL Like I just freeze up while this feeling of dread bubbles up until I have to close the app and quit.

I have nothing against writing or anything but because my stories used to be me venting out emotions and my past, it's like opening an overstuffed closet of my ghosts and my past selves that don't define who I am anymore.

I came here initially to write out feelings I bottle in the form of fanfics to let it out and heal, and now that I have ... I don't know what to do with myself lol

It's like I lost a part of myself that I've always had in me and as much as that's relieving to discover about myself that I am healing from when I started out, I'm not sure how to continue the stories I still love and want to finish ;n;

Though I have a control on that and I can still write those stories, slowly but surely, my problem is mostly me just blanking out even though I know what to write and I have all the plot figured out OTL

So like help fellow writers? Q~Q

How do you guys usually get out of your funk, your writer's block, your mental breakdown, etc or how do you just say "hey self, pull yourself together and write dang it because you love writing and you're being a silly goose?"

It's been so debilitating... I can't even get myself to talk to people or message back because I still have hardcore social anxiety (~/ x \~)

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hzhfobsessed #1 Jan 30, 2019 15:37:13

That is a super good question because I am working on a long project for school and I have to write realistic fiction for a year. I just.... since it’s for a grade, I have to write no matter how much i don’t want to. I have been pulling absolute out of my asscrack, so my best advice is just to DO IT. Write whatever the comes to mind and go stream of consciousness if you need to, but DON’T STOP WEITINF.

It sounds stupid and useless but i’m Getting through lol so that’s all I can say ;;;; GOOD LUCK!!!!

justminaa #2 Jan 30, 2019 12:52:22

Writer's block , really. I had it recently but like, I forced myself to keep on writing despite the emptiness in my head lol. But I think what made me able to fight off the writer's block was the motivation to complete the book and also I did it for all of my readers who have been supporting my fics and waiting for every new update patiently. So, as a return for that, I told myself to keep on updating until the end of the story. I sometimes tend to imagine the positive outcomes if I finally finished writing the fics since I've never done it before. So, it would be one of my biggest achievements in life if I could complete my fics hahaha It's something like a goal for me so I strive hard to work for it.

If you want to know, I took a break from writing for almost two years due to writer's block and only get back to it again last year and is still keep on writing until today. I have always love writing ever since I was young and I think to have that passion in me is also one of the reasons why I always feel motivated to write.

My advice to you is to just keep on writing whatever comes to your mind - be it a short story, a sentence or a paragraph. It might take a while to recover from writer's block but sometimes, writing a paragraph of summary for your story will probably helps you to continue writing and also could help you to build up more ideas from there until you finally write the chapters. I normally wrote an entire summary of my fic from how it begins, the middle and the . By doing so, I could just re-read them again after a few days or weeks and edit some bits or cut some bits if I want to. Then, I'll go proceed writing the chapters.

Another way is to write your first draft first, let's say, the first two chapters of your fic, you can write it first today and get back to it again after a few days to edit them out. From that, you can add something new into the draft or delete any parts you want. Who knows from here you will get some new ideas pop in your head to continue writing the next chapter.

Recently, I saw a post from Instagram saying that using the font Comic Sans is also useful for writing a draft of your story, especially if you are having a writer's block. I've never tried it before but there are people who have tried it and most of them said that it worked! You might want to give it a try ;)

I think that's all I can tell you for now. I hope this will help! :))

donghaesbread #3 Jan 30, 2019 00:08:11

literally writer's block to me is just procrastination
maybe that's just my case
but it took me more than half a year to get over my writer's block from last year... and I still sort of have it sometimes but then I remind myself to get writing. nothing works better for me than to just pull up a blank docs and then type my heart out on it. when I don't feel like writing for a certain fic, I don't write for that fic. bc I know that if I am not feeling inspiration for it, if I force myself to write, the quality of the work is not going to come out good. so I just throw my ideas all out on paper and write the things I feel inspired for. and then, eventually, the inspiration moves back to the stories that I left on hiatus and then I get writing again.

so really, I feel like if you feel like some of your stories don't feel "right" as of right now, just leave them be and write something that defines you more right now.
maybe you can even write about the struggle of wanting to write but not being able to lol

anyways hope that helped <3