I had my computer crash a while ago and lost a good deal of what I had been working on, I've managed to recover most of it, but for some reason I just can't get back into the swing of it. It is time to stop pretending I can write and move on. Thank you everyone, your friendship and stories got me through a very difficult time in my life, I don't know where I would have been without you. I'll still be around from time to time to read a story or two, but I think my writing days are through. Love you all.
I think I'm done
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take a break from writing
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It's been 9 months
and every time I sit down to try and write, nothing works. I'll be around, just not making any feeble attempts to write.
I agree with Dotty..
Forget about writing for a long enough time. Hopefully an unexpected spark might interest you, a month, a year, a decade later.
I'd say the thing is not to forget that you can write.
Oh yes, and don't forget your friends here.
Lucy xx
"Lately it occurs to me..
what a long strange trip its been."
Funny thing
Melanie and I were just thinking of you a few hours ago!
Wanna do lunch sometime this week?
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
This stuff is hard
Writing is hard. We love it. It defines us, even if only in our own mind. (Who am I? I'm a writer.) But that means when we hit the wall, when we can't do it, when we sit down to write and nothing comes, we don't just smile and go do something else. It feels like a part of us is missing, or broken.
Each of us will write our last story sometime, soon or late. But there's no way to know when that day has come, until it's all over. An idea may spark new energy where there was nothing. You could be walking through the mall, or listening to birds, or smelling coffee brewing first thing in the morning, and a long-dormant seed may poke a green shoot out where moments before, the ground was frozen. Sometimes, ideas need stillness and space before they blossom. I'll get the exact quote wrong, but Ursula LeGuin once wrote, "For a word to be truly spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after." Sometimes, the silence lasts so long it breaks our hearts.
— Emma