For the past month it has been really hard to write stories, I mean I start them and stop them. I have no idea if my school work is getting to me or I need to do something to change, because sitting around isn't fun for me. I always want to do something...any of you experience this before or is it just me? |
Every writer/artist ends up experiencing this at some points. Inspiration (and motivation) is something comes and goes like weather and it seems like you can't do much about it. Sometimes you just "don't feel like it", even when you want to do something. It's really annoying when you try to keep a rythm/regularity of production. This kind of situation happened a countless number of times in about 10 years of drawing fetish stuff (then writing). It's normal, fortunately (or unfortunately? ^^) I don't have much advise against this phenomena. Though, I've noticed that reading and/or watching stuff related to the subject you try to work on can be a very good solution to the problem. Movies, series, anime, cartoon, manga (even hentai...xD) You can find inspirations in everything, and not even necessarly on things you expect to gives you inspiration. For writing purpose, I found that reading/watching film/series/anime with heavy storytelling can be a surprising good source of inspiration. As for fetish purpose, don't hesitate to get into other people's works. Sometimes reading a good fetish story can brings you good idea for your own or give you motivation to continue your own. Some famous author says that forcing you to write, even when you've no idea or inspiration, is the one good way to fight it. Somekind of "you get the appetite for eating by eating" idea. I'm not sure if it's true, but if they say so, then I guess... x) Anyway, yes, happened to me a freaking lot of time, but be reassured, it's normal and it's definitively not a definitive thing. |
I wonder what I should write for Halloween this year. I want to do something special and I think that writing it for an event like Halloween would be interesting for me. I always wanted to dabble with horror. |
Do you plan to participate in NaNo (AKA NaNoWriMo AKA National Novel Writing Month) this November? It starts after Halloween, so there's the option to do both and you could writing some horror for NaNo as well. We have
going on right now to help people get ready to write in November. You write 50k words towards your novel, but you don't edit or stress over the quality in November. That's what the rest of the year is for. You just get started in November. The official NaNo website is https://www.nanowrimo.org, if you are interested. |
Finally wrote something, cool. I am going to start experimenting with what stories I like to write about. |
Cool! Congratulations! You can go to the Contests tab under the Community tab or check out
That list of contests has them organized by genre, so you might like that. Also, I run
I post 3 or so different contests every month. If you do 12 months in a row, just enter the contest, then post proof in my forum, you get 2 exclusive MBs and a MB celebration on the Newsfeed where I guarantee a minimum of 5 more. You can even work backwards and complete previous months to finish your 12 months sooner. If you have the time to do 12 months of contest entries in a week, go for it! Anyway, good luck with your short story adventures! |