Writer's block aka Apathy

Hello everyone

It's been a while since I posted so I thought I'd at least stick something up so you know I'm still aware of your needs. I'm sorry for deserting my (dare I dream of it?) readership, but I've been finding it difficult to write about things...which is what I'm going to write about!

Laziness is something of a big factor here I'll admit, and part of why I can't come up with anything decent for my coursework piece is because I quite often can't be bothered, and when combined with other factors it can be a very big deterrant to creativity.

The second factor is distractions. I have a houseguest to entertain, tasks to complete as well as there being a wealth of entertaining TV out there (since our aquisition of E4, Smallville has become a regular element to my week day. Another distraction is blogging, which requires some creativity and effort, but does give the slight satisfaction of having written and published something.

The third factor is, for lack of a better word, depression. It's easy to get a bit disheartened with a piece when it's not progressing as you'd hoped and when you're very aware that deadlines are accelerating towards you. The (often quite poor) organisation of my course, coupled with external factors (mostly transport related) has meant that i have had much less tutor time than I need to properly develop my work which leaves me in dead space, not knoing where and how to progress. Also since both my main pieces are continuations of what I did last year it's hard to create the piece since i largely know what happens already, I just have to write it out and hope it comes out as I imagined it...which it won't!

The fourth factor is just plain old fashioned writer's block - i.e. I find it quite hard to actually come up with an idea and to develop it, due to the above factors and the internal force that tells me that I'm burned out and that there are no ideas left.

So there we are, that's me done for now- I'm going to go and attempt some writing of consequence, goodnight.

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