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So, in 2020 it finally happened: I lost my writing mojo, and it was TERRIBLE. I felt hamstrung: creativity is how I keep my brain happy and functional, but suddenly my solace had become a chore. It suuuckkked.
It didn& #39;t help that things on here were also...fraught.
BUT.
It didn& #39;t help that things on here were also...fraught.
BUT.
Lately, things have been slowly shifting, for the better. I spent more time thinking than writing, and it really helped.
Also, there are some wonderful, supportive folk here, folk like @timwaggoner, who sent me a trove of links and supportive advice like:
https://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2020/03/writing-during-difficult-times.html?m=1">https://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2020/03/w...
Also, there are some wonderful, supportive folk here, folk like @timwaggoner, who sent me a trove of links and supportive advice like:
https://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2020/03/writing-during-difficult-times.html?m=1">https://writinginthedarktw.blogspot.com/2020/03/w...
I also threw myself into the genre again to try and reconnect. One of the best and most enthusiastic interviews I heard recently was this one, with @JoshMalerman on the @ThisIsHorror podcast. Infectious joy for the craft, which is so appreciated in these times.
I started collaborating again with amazing women like @HightowerLaurel, @cinapelayo and so many more fiercely talented, brilliant people I& #39;m lucky to have in my sphere. Their successes literally spur me on to better things.
I slid back into art, including a collab with the inimitable @WondrousSound, who lets me doodle things for his incredible music and that brings me enormous joy.
I stepped back from toxicity and conflict, which I& #39;m pathalogically allergic to, and you may think my Dad Joke Gemma persona is slightly unhinged, but she helps me to keep this platform manageable and safe and enjoyable.
And I went on a fuck off massive holiday away from my house, which had become a prison cell, and spent time outdoors, eating, walking, thinking, sleeping, getting rained on and not staring at my computer in a hopeless, dreary funk
There are projects on the horizon that I& #39;m genuinely able to get excited about again. Podcasts, scripts, art, books, audio books, screenplays...all the things. It feels awesome to have that ahead of me, and I& #39;m so damn lucky.
And the BEST THING is that my mojo is slowly, slowly creeping back in, like a chilly finger of autumn mist creeping across a lake at dawn...
Or something
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AND I& #39;M EXCITED TO WRITE AGAIN
