I started typing the opening to Book III about three weeks ago. I knocked out the first scene rather quickly, but then struggled to pick up with another set of characters and how to start their journey after their fate at the end of Atomic Beasts and Where to Kill Them. Then Hurricane Ian showed up and wrecked my area in a way that it’s never been wrecked in my lifetime, and with that, my brain was in a vegetative state for a week or more.
Yesterday, I forced myself to write, even if I felt the end result would be shit. Sometimes, I just have to push through to find the right words. Plus, once the juices get flowing, I can always go back and refine it.
Staring at what I wrote yesterday, I had a breakthrough with what I was struggling with and sort of hit my stride again. My main issue, was trying to figure out how to format the first few scenes in the book. Sometimes the way out of a situation is the easiest and most obvious, but it’s hard to see when one is overthinking something with a touch of unnecessary paranoia.
As I’ve stated before, I don’t believe in writer’s block. I think that when you’re stuck, you just fucking write and push through. Get the creativity flowing again, and fix the bad shit once your head and momentum are back on track.
Anyway, that’s it for now. This isn’t a big post, I just felt like I needed to give some sort of status update with everything that’s been going on in my life the last few weeks and how it derailed me for a bit.
hey man, do what you need to do, we all have those issues, glad you're back to writing *hugs*
I'm also a proponent of brute-forcing one's way through a "writer's block." As you said, you may not be happy with what you write, but that's what editing and revising is for.