Rigil Kent wrote:I wish I could help you, Aquarius, but I'm very much in the same boat as you are in regards to my Endeavour stuff (and my Star Wars fics and my NCIS fic ... but in those cases, I blame the utter and complete suckitude of the source material for killing the inspiration with two shots to the chest, and one to the head.) I know exactly how the next installment needs to unfold ... I'm just finding it extremely difficult to get the words or general inspiration to function. With my ongoing Divergent Paths story, I just set it aside for a small eternity and was somehow able to pick it back up without too much difficulty.
If you figure it out, though, could you clue me in? Please? Pretty please?
I hit that particular snag with one of my stories back in february. I had fallen off the horse for the umpteenth time and had enough bruises to show for the stunt. Being at home, it should have been a perfect time to get some writing done, but the muse didn't hit as I had not written something for almost 3 months (which I spent in endless but fruitless attempts to become a better horse-ridist)
I finally managed to overcome that case of writers block by just sitting down and re-reading what I had written until then. Sometimes during that, the vibes, which had started my story in the first place, came back and I was able to continue my writing.
A second method that works for me is re-reading some of my favourite fanfics - mainly HoT material. I can remember at least 4 or 5 cases of writers block that were cured by re-reading HopefulRomantic's Reconnecting series or Zane Gray's "Differential". Your "Elysium" did it recently as well. What I really like about your stuff is the sort of effort you put into it - your putting faces to your OC's makes a real difference as well.
