how do write so consistently and so often? i'm often swamped with work and when i finally have time to write, i'm too emotionally tired/anxious that it isn't good enough, so i go blank! any advice?
I’m about the worst person in the world to answer this lol
I think everyone has their own method and you just have to sort of...tailor it to fit your situation and your own personal writing habits. I tend to write very quickly when I get down to it, *if* the spark is flaring and words are wording. Which isn’t always.
I guess the key would be to just do it when you can? I have the benefit of not having a terribly strict schedule to adhere to, which admittedly makes it easier to find bits of time here and there to sit down and bang a few lines out whenever they come to me, but during the school year that gets a little harder because I homeschool two boys - one in elementary with severe ADHD and one in junior high with special needs - and that gets spread out across the entire day and sometimes into the evening. So I write little bits throughout the day, and then any serious writing that gets done usually happens late at night after everyone else has gone to bed. Your writing doesn’t have to be done all at once, and it’s sometimes better to have little pieces to string together later. It seems like sometimes the cobbled-together frankensteiny stuff ends up working out the best.
About that “anxious that it isn’t good enough” part - we all get that, trust me. I have 7 published books and 74 works on AO3 and I still have overwhelming anxiety when it’s time to share. It’s just something that you have to work around, and remember that it’s almost always better than your anxiety tells you it is :)
@pipingplover (it’s not letting me tag you, sorry - hope you see this!)