Today, I’ll share some thoughts I’ve gotten after spending quite some time away from my story and how it might help me turn things around.

If you’re reading my blog often, then you know that I’m struggling with writer’s block since early summer… of 2023. Originally, I thought it’s coming from feedback that wasn’t as good as I expected and revealed that there’s still much to work on – and it did feel daunting and an obstacle that seemed to grow right before my eyes.

As time went on, I realized the true cause could be different – that living solo has led me to the point where I simply lack the capacity for creative pursuits on my workdays and need the weekend to let my mind rest and recharge, taking away further potential writing time. Over the 18 months, I had a few moments where I would do some edits to one or two chapters, then not touch the story for weeks or months again.

In late October this year, as I was on my way from the USA holiday, I decided to read through one of the last drafts of my story again, then followed it by a read of the first book. This was mostly because I was indecisive about what to read next more than any plan to get back on track with writing.

Yet, it seems that it might have that result. Seeing the story so far pretty much in its entirety – even if not in the latest draft (as I haven’t updated the file on my Kindle in a long time) led to ideas popping in my head. Small things, mostly, but a lot of them started to feel like just the missing piece of a puzzle. It seems that the time away – still way too long in my opinion – made me come back with a fresher view, so to say.

Eventually, I decided to do something I planned to do for the purpose of drafting book three – write a file about the changes made during the drafting stage so that, when the time comes to work on book three, my beta readers could see what changed in book two without a full read (especially those who read the earlier drafts). As I was writing this file – which took me almost four hours – all the tiny ideas I had started falling into place and some of them led to further ideas cascading through the story.

The hard part – to actually write them – is still ahead. But, after a very long time, I’m again starting to feel specks of inspiration coming back to my life. And as small as those specks might be, they’re giving me hope that, sooner or later, I’ll find my passion for writing again.

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That’s it for today. I guess this is more something I’m putting to words for myself, but I had no idea ready for a blog post yet. At the same time, I would welcome your own experience when it comes to overcoming the lack of inspiration or desire to write.