Absence

They say that absence makes the heart grow fonder but can the same (or similar) be applied to writing. Does an absence from writing make the mind more creative or less?

I have often wondered about this and I have come to the mind-blowing conclusion that the answer is; d) all of the above.

There have been times when I simply couldn’t write for whatever reason. The first book I ever published (self) was in 2008. Before that book was finished, there had been about an eight- or nine-year gap where about four or five chapters that sit near the middle weren’t complete. I had the first half worked out and the final few chapters, but these other ones in the middle just wouldn’t happen. That book has since undergone severe changes, but in essence it is the same basic storyline. I have added relevant fluff and removed slightly less relevant fluff.

Yet I have worked on other stories that have had no issue with me continuing my thought process for said story even though there may have been a gap of days, weeks, months or even a year or so.

Stories have a knack of knowing when they need to be worked on or when they don’t. in the same way characters talk to you when you write. They tell you what they have to do, have to say, how they feel, who to kill and so on despite we writers being the controller of the pen or keyboard. Stories, as a whole, will tell you when it’s time to rest them and when it’s time to complete them.

Absence is not akin to blockage. Whilst there are valid reasons that people might believe in writer’s block, I don’t dismiss it outright, neither do I give it ground. Many things can get in the way of a writer. Life is usually the most common. Apart from not blogging for a few weeks, I haven’t written seriously for about the same amount of time. Life got in my way. I moved to a new house.

I’m slowly getting things sorted out as I have to reduce so much as well as go back to work. This doesn’t mean that my stories are idle. I know that they are biding their times for when I have more freer time to release them.

So, back to the new house for now.

Chat soon.