Sometimes, the hardest part of writing is actually writing

Oh I couldn't agree more! Sometimes my brain is spilling over with thoughts and ideas but when I try to get them on paper (or on screen!)it just doesn't happen - or does not come out at all the way I want or imagine. It is extremely frustrating but I find the best thing to do is go and do something totally different for a while and come back to it later. Luckily this normally does the trick!

Yes I know the feeling. Sometimes you just get writers block, or you get burned out from writing. When that happens its a good idea to stop writing for like a week or two and come back to it and you will be more inspired. Thats what I do hope this helps good day.

Oh can I relate to that. I just finished NaNoWriMo and my goal was to write 1750 words per day. Some days, I sat down and reached my goal in an hour. Other days, it would take me all day and I wouldn't always get to my goal. When I run into this situation, I just try to write anything, throw words onto paper, then I use the next day to edit the junk that I wrote the day before.

I see what you mean and I understand it. I have done some writing and it generally takes me a while to write an article for example. Ideas are very easy to generate, but it could take me forever to be able to write a decent paragraph.

I admit that writing is the hardest part of the work. I tend to write my ideas directly but my desire to write is blocked by the process of the writing. It is such a difficult time for me to pass through it. I did trying to think simply and put my ideas into words slowly and surely by obeying complex sentence and phrases as well. English language is my foreign language so you could imagine how it feel like when try to figure out my writing skill that isn't my own language.

I has faced this blockage many times in my life. I am well fluent with my mother tongue but still I find very tough to express my thoughts through my writing skill. I has got very god marks in my mother tongue language but still I find hard to write. Really bridge between our brains and my mind are rally rooted at some times. How to solve it ? Many has told me many ideas including megamatt but it is not working.

It is true. I certainly find this to be true. I do find that the most difficult part about writing is actually writing itself. I don't know why it can be so difficult to write sometimes.

Lately, I have been there a lot. I have a million good ideas running through my head, but as soon as I try to put them on paper, the words just seem to get lost between my brain and my fingers. It is very frustrating...and very unproductive. I have and use many tricks that normally help me get past this, but lately, those aren't even working that well. I hope that because I am making more of an effort to get myself back in the swing of it all that I will get through this slump I seem to be in really soon. My family is depending on me.

Hi Megamatt, I find the hardest part is the starting paragraph. Once the first paragraph is done, the body of the text comes naturally. I think we are still thinking at that time, and have not really finalized the format of the content. After all, we can choose a thousand and one ways to write. At times, I have to write, delete, write again, delete again, before finally deciding on a format.

I definitely agree with you! As what Gene Fowler said "Writing is easy what you have to do is sit down and let blood drop into your head". I wanted to be a writer but there is a part in me that is really troubled when it comes to writing. To be honest the main reason why I'm afraid to right its because I'm afraid that my reader will criticize me because of my English and my grammar as well. I've been trying to improve my writing skills.

Expressing ourselves is never easy. I think my problem in the beginning as a novice was purpose. I still feel this from time to time as a reason not to write. It is accepting the fact that my quality of my prose though it can always improve will never be where I would want it. I need to live with myself and I am hard to live with sometimes.

It happens to me most of the time. And I agree, the worst is when we have so much ideas but we can't even put it into writing. We cannot think of a good way to start it or to make it more catchy. It happens to me every now and then..

I know how that is! I have written a book, and there were so many times I was frustrated because the words didn't come out as I wanted. I think it's something every writer goes through. But regardless, I really enjoy writing. It's one of my main hobbies. Like I said, I just wrote a book; it's now published. The name is "Grace Through Every Trial."

it happens to me all the time, especially when i want to write in English because it's my 3rd language

I haven't written too much this year, although I really want to, I just get busy doing other things to earn online and I keep telling myself I'm going to write more reviews and then I want to do other things.

I admit that writing is the hardest part of the work. I tend to write my ideas directly but my desire to write is blocked by the process of the writing. It is such a difficult time for me to pass through it. I did trying to think simply and put my ideas into words slowly and surely by obeying complex sentence and phrases as well. English language is my foreign language so you could imagine how it feel like when try to figure out my writing skill that isn't my own language.

to the right. is sometimes very difficult to write. Rost because it evaporates from our head if we do not forget the thoughts. This happened to me and I know what is. and it seems awfully difficult. we have thoughts ideas inspiration. interesting discussion. nice day!

I know what you mean, it's so bad when this happen to me too. I know that in these days, I can sit in front of the computer or my notepad during hours and not write more than one paragraph. When I see that the work will not be productive, I just try to do something else, like watching TV, to see if this gets better.

I had something like that happen to me before. It's like I feel that I can write anything I want in ten seconds flat but when I sit down in front of my pc... Then it's like. Wait a second, I thought I had something here! I had that happen to me like three times so far. I think it might be because some of the ideas(or most of them) have absolutely nothing to do with what I'm going to write. The other thing is that part of me thinks that if I do write that stuff down I'll botch it and then it's curtains for whatever I'm writing. The way I'm dealing with the fear of botching for now is to try to ignore that and write. Sure I might goof up a bit but if I don't write I'll never get it done and I'll go crazy. Besides I feel better about the whole deal when it's written. It doesn't have to be perfect, if you can live with it then it's fine. If however I'm not having that problem and it's the ideas that are driving me to distraction... Then I tell a few of them to shut up and only pay attention to the ones that really matter. :)