Writing/not writing

[hmpf]

My life has been... weird, since I finished uni. It's been nine months now, and those nine months have been incredibly *full* (though not necessarily fulfilling; not really the opposite, either). The weeks have nearly always been completely packed, if not temporally, then at least mentally: it's possible to be spread so thinly between so many things that even when you do have some spare time, you don't find yourself able to do anything properly. My time and my mind have been filled with job hunt stuff, with Greenpeace stuff, with my postgraduate course/thing, with (mostly) abortive attempts to restart my social life, with semi-successful attempts to make jewellery again, and just with the general business of getting my life back into some sort of order after neglecting too many things for too long. (I admit I have taken a few breaks in those nine months to make Knytt Stories levels, because level making puts me in a state of flow that is very relaxing and satisfying, and that I don't get from any other creative activity I know. Nor from anything else, at the moment, really.)

I have done nearly no writing at all.

On the one hand, this is very frustrating.

On the other hand, bizarrely, in the few moments I did find for writing - a total of maybe three to six hours in the last nine months, I think - I've spontaneously solved *two* difficult conundrums in stories that had been stalling for *years*.

I am honestly not sure if I would have made more progress if I had continued to work on those stories regularly, as I had been doing before.

The downside of the situation is that now I'm all fired up to really continue those stories, but I don't have the time to sit down and write *at all*.

(LoM icon because they're both LoM stories.)

Comments

[raine-wynd.livejournal.com]

I set aside a fic that I couldn't figure out how to finish for seven years. One day, perusing old, WIP stories I'd put on hold, I reread that fic and knew how I could finish it. The kicker was that I could only write for about twenty minutes a day -- so I did. Took months, but I finished the story. Nothing says you *have* to sit and write *now*, for any given length, or anything of the sort. Given my experience, I'm inclined to think that the stories that demand to be written will find a way to be written. :-)