Good to see you here Poon. I’m glad you enjoyed the entry and it is great to find other novelists walking the same roads.

It felt really good to find and meet other writers like you

I’ve blogged in other realms for two years now and sometimes you really just wonder if people are going to care about what you’re saying or struggle to come up with a topic you can both feel passionate about and do justice to when writing.

Of course, my novel is where I usually have trouble with writer’s block. It’s often tempting to start over, but on a good day I know a lot of what I already have is very good. I’m about half way through and it seems to get harder, rather than easier the further in I get.

Then of course I have copywriting, copyediting, and general copy to work on. Most projects that have deadlines are ok but as a freelancer I’m often working to my own schedule and for some reason the flexability can be harder to deal with then structure.

Anyway, it’s a topic all writers could share a lot of insight and frustration over. Thanks for visiting and I hope you’ll enjoy the other entries. Let me know if there is any particular topic you’d like me to write about.

Here’s a topic: what to do when you run out of ideas in your novel? (Now, this may depend on whether you are a plotter or a pantser/seat of pants writer.) I’m a pantser (I think I’ll write about that when I’m finished with my paying work today)and when ever a pantser is writing there is always the possibility of slamming up against a story wall or wandering down a dead-end path. How do you get going again without forcing your story?

I’ve got terrible writer’s block, just awful pain, with writing my freelance work. I think it’s burnout. And I also think it’s from investing my soul in the thoughts and aspirations of others instead of my own. After a while, it sucks your soul dry.

So, since rediscovering that I actually like to write, I’m going back to fiction. I’ve taken too long off.

You did a good job of using your blockage as fodder for your blog post. But what caused the block, when you can write about anything? Have I just forgotten how painful writing can be?

I know it can and will be on the novel. I guess blog entries can feel as tempting to write as writing thank you notes, and I just haven’t been blogging long enough. Right now it’s total, exhilarating freedom.

Nice to meet you, by the way! Will be back for more. Anne (lifepundit)