I wrote my characters into a corner last week and my writing pace slowed. For me, a few things are true. My pace varies. A slow day or two, I can usually rebound form pretty easily. When it starts being multiple days of a slower pace, it gets a little harder to pick the pace back up.
Sometimes life if just like that. I had a busy week at the day job, and sometimes that just sucks up too much of my brain.
It's also true that when I'm writing and working, I also read and watch TV less. And scroll social media more. My theory is that this is the smaller version of I don't have time to watch a movie, so I'll watch TV. Each social media post is small, so it seems a smaller lift, even though an hour of scrolling could be an hour of something else.
A writing workshop instructor once said, if you're stuck read something. It will either inspire you to write something that good or annoy you enough to think I write better than that. Which ha. But I finally finished a book Friday that I adored, and one that I was annoyed by Sunday. And I got my writing back up to pace Saturday and Sunday. Now sure, having more time to write helped too.
But a lot of it was remembering I don't just need to feed and water myself, I also have to get some good stories into my brain. Social media sometimes provides that, and it is certainly useful for connections and other such things. But a media diet with a little more variety works best for me.
