Of course, there are the usual things, like listening to music, taking walks, and reading for research or enjoyment.
I give myself time to heal after personal moments in my life, and I also make sure I make time to relax, sleep, or even find adventure with the hubster.
Things I do when I don’t feel like writing
- Tell myself to do at least five minutes of writing a day – even if I don’t want to
- Force myself to carry my digital writer and digital pen everywhere I go in my purse. It reminds me all the time to write
- Fanfic a story or movie. If i was cinderella what would i do? If i was the lying sister in atonement? What happened to Stella after she lost her groove again?
- Watch a movie or read a book and then write about it in my journal
- Edit a new story that needs editing, or go back and edit an older story that needs updating because I wrote it a long time ago.
- Rework book covers or work on my website/ schedule out content for a back catalog book over the other content i got going on so i looks like i’m doing a lot of crap when i’m not.
More importantly, I give myself grace because Rome wasn’t built in a day, and I want to give my best to my readers and not some slop I just thought of. If I’m not feeling the story, I know my readers won’t either, so I want to make sur when i put my finges on the keyboar and write, I’ve giivng them the best of what I have because if I can feel the story so can they.
So now, tell me: what do you do when you don’t feel like writing?
