When I was writing book one, I worked in the evenings which gave me a lot of free time during the days to write. It was a retail job so I was able to just go in, do what I needed to do and leave with no stresses and worries whatsoever.
At the moment I am working elsewhere on a flexi-basis three full days a week, in a job which clogs up my brain when I am not at the office. Therefore the whole writing thing has been going very slowly. I wake up early and by the time I get home I am so shattered that I fall asleep quite early in the night. I have no energy to write like I used to.
I worry about losing my writing mojo and am worried that the thing that I have to do is taking over the thing that I want to do. I am way behind on the target that I had set for myself and I wanted to be a lot further in my writing than I am now. There used to be a time when I would be on the tube and I would have that amazing urge to write something that I would scribble all over a notebook that I would always keep in my bag.
Readers I need your help in getting that back. I have got two weeks off in April and I plan to write as much as possible. Do any of you have any advice about getting my writing spurt back?
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I use freewriting a lot. Just grab a pen, a notebook, and start writing anything and everything that pops into your head. It can be amazingly cathartic, and so easy!
I think it's maybe a good thing you're busy working - I find sometimes that not writing for a week or so and just going out to do stuff starts bringing new ideas bubbling in the back of my mind...
Thanks for all the advice guys, I have been feeling the same desire to write recently, so I am back to the notebook technique again.
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