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What steals your Mojo?
Kali:
--- Quote from: Starbeam on November 05, 2009, 06:38:49 PM ---I have this. Any clue how to explain it to someone who doesn't? My b/f thinks I'm going to lose ideas because I don't write them down soon as I have them, and even when he's seen this problem, says the same thing.
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I usually tell people almost exactly what I wrote above. If I tell the story in any form, even to tell someone what it's going to be about, I lose the desire to write it because now I've told the story. Having told it once, I lose the need to tell it in another form.
LizW65:
For me, it's getting caught up in "real life" stuff and telling myself "I can always do that later." I find the longer I stay away, the harder it is to get back into it--and I'm also easily distracted. Now that I'm committed to one mauscript for NaNoWriMo, I'm finding myself more interested in another idea that's been kicking around my brain for some time--basically, it's "Martin Chuzzlewit in the 21st Century meets Bruce Campbell", and I find myself concentrating on that instead of on what I'm supposed to be writing.
Sully:
--- Quote from: Fox on November 05, 2009, 03:49:19 PM ---You mean besides Dr. Evil (or I guess Fat Bastard)? ::)
Probably the fear that anything I write will be too derivative of things I've read or seen etc.
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I first read that as 'Arrogant Bastard' and was going to tell you to stop drinking. :P
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Unexpected bad news can take out my ability to write for a bit.
Being disrupted in my prep for writing definitely can, particularly in terms of having to unexpecetdly do People Stuff.
i certainly had no energy at all for my usual writing on Friday or indeed my usual backup of writing on Saturday this past weekend because of two extremely full days at a work colloquium. (Lots of great cutting-edge science stuff, it just used a lot of energy.)
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