by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
Sometimes I think that we need something to spur us on and get us going.
We need something different to help us either grow or keep ourselves engaged. Maybe we’ve been working on one book for a long period of time. Maybe we’ve been working on a particular series so long that we feel we’re getting stale. Maybe it’s that we’ve been writing a single genre.
Sometimes we’re just weighed down by our story.
For me, the best thing I can do is to shake things up a little bit.
Write at a different time of day.
Write in a different place (my favorite is the library).
Read something really good. For me, this is usually something in a genre I’m not writing. Or, maybe, I’m reading a mystery, but it’s not the same subgenre. Or I’ll read an inspiring autobiography or biography on an artist.Continue reading