When you’re home and writing all of the time, writer’s block
sucks. The shortest stretch was a few days, but the longest was three months. I
lost the entire summer to crap projects and silliness and got no work done on
the two viable (and halfway decent, if I say so myself) novels. I finally
started to get my mojo back in early October.
After an entire summer of staring at the screen and not producing
anything worth sharing, it was like a cloud lifting.
What did I do to break out of it? Absolutely nothing. It was
more of a reaction to the busyness of the fall for me. We have a significant
number of family birthdays, trips, adopting a dog and having a chocolate egg
cream at home. Don’t knock the egg cream. It’s a magical, magical drink that
only few appreciate. Having all these fun and positive things happening in a
short amount of time made me want to do something I loved again. So I’m
writing. NaBloPoMo has been a great because it forces me to think about
something different every day, to get out of my comfort zone and to find my
voice again.
Have you ever suffered a block in your work? How did you get
over it?
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