Stop reminiscing and daydreaming and actually start writing again

I feel the need to write and write and write… perhaps the manuscript will finally get started!

Well, it’s been slow progress BUT there has been progress. In fact, this is the most I have written on a single manuscript in 7+ years. I have only gotten the introduction and about 5 pages of chapter one…which isn’t a lot compared to how much I used to just pour out onto paper(I used to be able to average about a chapter a night). However I’m thankful for even this little bit. Batteling the writer’s block has been slow going, but using one of the ideas Sally Kitt gave me it’s moving. Plus I think it’s really helping that I have such an affection for this particular set of characters. I have definitely gotten rusty over the years though so I’m having to work out some kinks in my style that I used to have down pretty fluid.
That’s ok though, like I said I’m thankful for any progress at all.
Interesting….I just noticed that the little quote here on the right side of my screen says, “Passion is about allowing yourself to get lost in something.”- Gail Sheehy I think that’s part of my block….When I used to write I wrote with such passion because the characters and the story…the essential ability to creat and maneuver lives and struggles to achieve the ultimate written climax was what I lived and breathed. Since then my life has become a sort of novel in and of itself and I haven’t had time to get lost in anything other than the daily grind and my own life’s adventures and I haven’t really allowed myself to get lost in my writings.
Perhaps the key for me is to set healthy boundaries and allow myself to get absorbed and lost in my manuscripts…the lives of these familiar strangers, not so long as to live and breath it like I used to but just enough to put it to paper. Hmmm…..I’ll have to dig deeper into this but I think there’s something to it for me.

After all of my writings were lost four or so years ago,it deflated my creative balloon so to speak and I have suffered the longest writer’s block of my life. Story lines would come, characters would be perfectly formed in my mind….and then I would start to set it to paper….....and nothing…..the words just wouldn’t come….sigh.......it’s like seeing a chalkboard full of writing and suddenly it’s all wiped away…....
I have been mulling around a story line and a set of characters for years now…...and I have decided I’m going to do this once and for all. The only way I can break through this writer’s block is to push myself.
Sooooooo…...I got the new journal out this weekend and started. Even if I only write a couple of sentances a day it’s ok…as long as I keep going.