Spotty01
Well-Known Member
...where does your inspiration come from? When you have writers' block, how do you bounce back from it?
I'm an avid fanfiction writer, as I've mentioned several times before, and one of the fanfics I'm currently writing has over thirty follows and favourites, the most of either I've ever gotten on a fanfic, and that means I have over thirty people waiting anxiously for updates. I temporarily forgot about the fic in question's existence a while back and didn't update it for over a month, so I vowed, in an author's note, to never take more than a week or two to update any of my fanfics again. On top of that, my parents have convinced me to write a short story or something to show a family friend who has published books in the past. The thing is, I'm at a total stand-still for either one.
I'm no stranger to writers' block, but it's still one of my most despised things to go through as, well, a writer. Usually, I spend a few days or weeks doing something that isn't writing until new ideas spark into my mind, but instead of suffering alone, I decided: hey, why not ask some of my fellow writers how they recover from writers' block? Well, that, and ask where you folks' inspiration comes from so maybe I can find my own inspiration in the same way. I have no specific place that my inspiration comes from; normally, I'll have writers' block one day, then inspiration will pop into my mind at a completely random moment the next... more often than not, in the middle of the night when I'm laying awake in my bed.
So, how do my fellow writers bounce back from writers' block? Where do you find inspiration for your ideas, short stories, fanfics, and the like?
I'm an avid fanfiction writer, as I've mentioned several times before, and one of the fanfics I'm currently writing has over thirty follows and favourites, the most of either I've ever gotten on a fanfic, and that means I have over thirty people waiting anxiously for updates. I temporarily forgot about the fic in question's existence a while back and didn't update it for over a month, so I vowed, in an author's note, to never take more than a week or two to update any of my fanfics again. On top of that, my parents have convinced me to write a short story or something to show a family friend who has published books in the past. The thing is, I'm at a total stand-still for either one.
I'm no stranger to writers' block, but it's still one of my most despised things to go through as, well, a writer. Usually, I spend a few days or weeks doing something that isn't writing until new ideas spark into my mind, but instead of suffering alone, I decided: hey, why not ask some of my fellow writers how they recover from writers' block? Well, that, and ask where you folks' inspiration comes from so maybe I can find my own inspiration in the same way. I have no specific place that my inspiration comes from; normally, I'll have writers' block one day, then inspiration will pop into my mind at a completely random moment the next... more often than not, in the middle of the night when I'm laying awake in my bed.
So, how do my fellow writers bounce back from writers' block? Where do you find inspiration for your ideas, short stories, fanfics, and the like?