What Holds You Back From Writing?
You’ve decided to write something. You sit down to write and what happens? Do you go blank? Do you get writers block? Or, maybe you’re like me and you have so many ideas you can’t choose one.
Just this morning I’ve penned 5 writing ideas and I have 2 from yesterday, plus a draft in the back-end here at my blog. Those are just on ‘writing’ topics and do not include other ideas I want to write on in fitness, health, etc.
One problem I find is wanting to write in my own voice. This is not the same as finding your voice in fiction writing. I mean I want to write straight out of my head–which is rarely ever grammatically correct.
I began this post March 26 and saved it to drafts, which gave me 2 posts in draft. I now have about 15 topic ideas jotted down for writing. Several years ago I was writing 10-12 hours a day. I burned out and took a rather long hiatus. I’m now having trouble getting back to a regular routine with writing. I begin writing and soon get hit with more ideas and then find it hard to focus on the topic at hand.
It’s not really writers’ block that holds me back, it’s writers’ overload. Some days it’s easy to just ‘pick a topic’ and go with it, other days it’s quite difficult.
What do you do in these situations? Do you suffer writers’ block or writers’ overload?
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