Ah, I've been in the exact same boat with regard to writing for a couple of months now. It's the whole reason I started vidding.
City Lights did a virtual session last year with adrienne maree brown and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, whose work I enjoy deeply, in which they talked a little about following Octavia Butler's (brown and Gumbs are both Butler scholars) philosophy. Basically, the advice is "Trust habits, don't wait for inspiration. Make yourself available to the work and take responsibility for it." So now I try to practice that. I'm not very good at it yet, but I'm slowly getting more consistent, I think. It helps to start by building routine — every evening, even if I know I'm not going to write, I open Scrivener and re-read bits of my wip or whatever. I also really like the advice wearing_tearing gives above, and I think it could work well in combination with this habit thing. I'm certainly going to give it a go.
Best of luck! May we all write all the words in our head soon.
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City Lights did a virtual session last year with adrienne maree brown and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, whose work I enjoy deeply, in which they talked a little about following Octavia Butler's (brown and Gumbs are both Butler scholars) philosophy. Basically, the advice is "Trust habits, don't wait for inspiration. Make yourself available to the work and take responsibility for it." So now I try to practice that. I'm not very good at it yet, but I'm slowly getting more consistent, I think. It helps to start by building routine — every evening, even if I know I'm not going to write, I open Scrivener and re-read bits of my wip or whatever. I also really like the advice wearing_tearing gives above, and I think it could work well in combination with this habit thing. I'm certainly going to give it a go.
Best of luck! May we all write all the words in our head soon.