The benefits of a break
Mar. 9th, 2020 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
malenkayacherepakhaI've just got home following a weekend away in Cornwall with my boyfriend, and wow, the break has helped so much in terms of rediscovering my motivation and enthusiasm for writing.
Before we went away I was feeling quite meh about my writing and was completely blocked on a couple of fics. This weekend has changed that entirely. One morning while my boyfriend surfed I wrote nearly 1k of my daily deviant fic which I was totally stuck on (by the way, if anyone fancies betaing some Harry x Pansy smut give me a shout!), another day I had a dream about my banging birthday fic which has given me the start of my plot, and I explored a load of Cornish villages and beaches which has really inspired me to get cracking on my long fic (set in a west country coastal village).
I also took a break from the Drarry discord which is still ongoing - I was sad to temporarily leave but it's done me a lot of good so far, so I'm not going to go back quite yet. My new little writing server is really delivering on the supportive community aspect which is brilliant.
This is all to say, breaks are important! It's so easy to think that we have to power through, to keep trying to get the words out, but sometimes you just need to switch off and let things settle in your mind, and then the ideas and words might just start flooding back.
And seeing as images on Dreamwidth are still far beyond my capabilities, here's a link to a tumblr post with some photos from my weekend, along with a little bit about how they're inspiring my fic!
Before we went away I was feeling quite meh about my writing and was completely blocked on a couple of fics. This weekend has changed that entirely. One morning while my boyfriend surfed I wrote nearly 1k of my daily deviant fic which I was totally stuck on (by the way, if anyone fancies betaing some Harry x Pansy smut give me a shout!), another day I had a dream about my banging birthday fic which has given me the start of my plot, and I explored a load of Cornish villages and beaches which has really inspired me to get cracking on my long fic (set in a west country coastal village).
I also took a break from the Drarry discord which is still ongoing - I was sad to temporarily leave but it's done me a lot of good so far, so I'm not going to go back quite yet. My new little writing server is really delivering on the supportive community aspect which is brilliant.
This is all to say, breaks are important! It's so easy to think that we have to power through, to keep trying to get the words out, but sometimes you just need to switch off and let things settle in your mind, and then the ideas and words might just start flooding back.
And seeing as images on Dreamwidth are still far beyond my capabilities, here's a link to a tumblr post with some photos from my weekend, along with a little bit about how they're inspiring my fic!
