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oj8740 | writing_train | 0.75 | Ok, so I've written a book, but I need some advice, hence the flair. I am new to this community. Ok, so this is going to be an acute description of my situation. I've written a book, and it is my first time writing, mind you. It probably comes under action, thriller and 'fantasy', although it is set in the real world. Moreover, I plan to make this book the first of a six book series, out of which for every book I have developed the story. The second book is even halfway done. But when I went through the first book again, I saw multiple instances of bad pacing and in some places, less descriptive writing than I should have included. The worst part was that I had given the book an 'okay' before, and had sent it to a wide variety of publishers and literary agents. The only positive response I got was from a fucking vanity publisher, Olympia. Many literary agents are saying that my book was 'not suitable' for them. Now, I'm obviously disappointed, but I had an idea. Before I tell that idea, I must include that although money isn't my goal, I sure as hell want \_something\_ from publishing it. My biggest motivator is probably some amount of fame and a little more respect amongst my peers and parents. Please not that I am sixteen years of age. Now, I don't want to sulk forever about the lost opportunity. I wish to rewrite the book. However, I'm also afraid that the agents and publishers would probably get annoyed, receiving a submission twice. I now regret the fact that I did not get the book checked by an editor first, and sent it to a plethora of agencies and publishers. Now, I am making this post so that I can get some guidance on what to do next. Do I rewrite and resend? Or do I regret this lost opportunity and try for something else? I've been working on this story as a whole for about two years now. The latter option seems hard for me to take. If anyone wants any samples of the chapters, please feel free to dm me. I would love some advice as well. Thank you! | h50e5gv | h50ilf2 | 1,626,158,016 | 1,626,161,929 | 6 | 8 | How many revisions have you done? How many beta readers have you sent it to? Exactly how many agents did you query? | If you want to know if it's ok to send it back, then yes. But make sure it's ready. That means to write a lot more and to read a lot more too. Most 16 year olds aren't ready to professionally publish anything. In fact I can only think of 1 author who wrote something that young and got it published. So don't expect everything to happen right away. You're maturing and so is your writing. And next time, when you think it's done, sit on if for 6 months, read it again and see if you still agree. | 0 | 3,913 | 1.333333 | ||
oj8740 | writing_train | 0.75 | Ok, so I've written a book, but I need some advice, hence the flair. I am new to this community. Ok, so this is going to be an acute description of my situation. I've written a book, and it is my first time writing, mind you. It probably comes under action, thriller and 'fantasy', although it is set in the real world. Moreover, I plan to make this book the first of a six book series, out of which for every book I have developed the story. The second book is even halfway done. But when I went through the first book again, I saw multiple instances of bad pacing and in some places, less descriptive writing than I should have included. The worst part was that I had given the book an 'okay' before, and had sent it to a wide variety of publishers and literary agents. The only positive response I got was from a fucking vanity publisher, Olympia. Many literary agents are saying that my book was 'not suitable' for them. Now, I'm obviously disappointed, but I had an idea. Before I tell that idea, I must include that although money isn't my goal, I sure as hell want \_something\_ from publishing it. My biggest motivator is probably some amount of fame and a little more respect amongst my peers and parents. Please not that I am sixteen years of age. Now, I don't want to sulk forever about the lost opportunity. I wish to rewrite the book. However, I'm also afraid that the agents and publishers would probably get annoyed, receiving a submission twice. I now regret the fact that I did not get the book checked by an editor first, and sent it to a plethora of agencies and publishers. Now, I am making this post so that I can get some guidance on what to do next. Do I rewrite and resend? Or do I regret this lost opportunity and try for something else? I've been working on this story as a whole for about two years now. The latter option seems hard for me to take. If anyone wants any samples of the chapters, please feel free to dm me. I would love some advice as well. Thank you! | h506jn2 | h50ilf2 | 1,626,152,144 | 1,626,161,929 | 6 | 8 | You're still so young. This is not unusual for a writer's life. Many authors have one or more trunk novels that have never seen the light of day. You can try to get this one to a publishable state, then try querying again (agents, not publishers). But don't be surprised if it gets no takers. It is not at all easy to break into traditional publishing. Alternatively, you can work on a new project. Many authors only break in after completing several trunk novels. That's the reality of this business. If you want to get critique on your chapters, we do have a critique thread for that. It is pinned to the sub's front page. | If you want to know if it's ok to send it back, then yes. But make sure it's ready. That means to write a lot more and to read a lot more too. Most 16 year olds aren't ready to professionally publish anything. In fact I can only think of 1 author who wrote something that young and got it published. So don't expect everything to happen right away. You're maturing and so is your writing. And next time, when you think it's done, sit on if for 6 months, read it again and see if you still agree. | 0 | 9,785 | 1.333333 | ||
xgzyog | writing_train | 0.87 | I wrote a short horror story- now what? Where do I get an editor? How do I publish? Do I just wait until I’ve gotten more short stories written and try to self publish a collection? Do people even want to read a collection of stories by someone who’s never been published before? I would just google but I’m scared of running into scams. Is there a good guide out there somewhere? I’m just confused and have no clue how to begin. | ioutlhe | iouu53a | 1,663,455,554 | 1,663,455,807 | 8 | 10 | I hate to break it to you, but you are just at the start. You need to build a name for yourself. Keep writing with the aim of getting as many stories under your belt as you can, start submitting them to journals, online lit magazines, and short story competitions. Submit them to loads, again and again, because its highly competitive and you'll get a lot of rejections even if its a brilliant short story. If you're not studying writing and getting feedback from a lecturer or from peers through a writing group or workshopping, and you can afford it, a fair few lit mags will offer feedback for a fee. Getting feedback is really vital to help you get better. Getting stories published in magazines and journals is how you get a name and get noticed, quite a few agents and publishers will look through the big ones for new, unpublished talent. Good luck! | Typically you do your own editing before you submit a story for publication. This is true of all works, you should never be submitting a rough/raw draft. Write, edit and polish your work until it's the very best version of itself. Then start the pub rounds. Look for markets that accept horror short story submissions. Follow their guidelines to the letter. Submit your story. Wait. Continue submitting until you get an acceptance or you've submitted to all of the markets you think fits your story and matches your pay rate. In the meantime write something new. As for avoiding scams it's pretty easy. Follow Yog's Law: the only place an author signs a check is on the back. Note there are exceptions, but you should research every market before you submit to it anyway. For finding markets, I like https://ralan.com/ for speculative fiction including horror. It's pretty old school, been around for a long time. | 0 | 253 | 1.25 | ||
xgzyog | writing_train | 0.87 | I wrote a short horror story- now what? Where do I get an editor? How do I publish? Do I just wait until I’ve gotten more short stories written and try to self publish a collection? Do people even want to read a collection of stories by someone who’s never been published before? I would just google but I’m scared of running into scams. Is there a good guide out there somewhere? I’m just confused and have no clue how to begin. | iouu9h5 | iowt57t | 1,663,455,864 | 1,663,498,460 | 2 | 3 | Here's a quick guide John Wiswell did: How I Submit Short Fiction. It uses a fantasy story for an example, but you can use the Submission Grinder to search for horror instead. Note: the SFWA (SF/F) had a qualifying rate of 8c/word until very recently (now they're going to assess markets using a more complex matrix not yet released). The HWA (horror) has a qualifying rate of 5c/word, so that part is a little different. Still though, no shame getting started in the semi-pro markets that pay less. | Here's what I did: - wrote several short stories - created a personal website and published them there (if you don't want to invest money, you can create a free wordpress site - I'm sure there are several free solutions to create a website) - searched for online magazines and submitted my stories - some of them were published, some not - created a short story collection and uploaded it on GooglePlay for free (you can create it in Google Docs and export is as PDF or in Canva, for free) - I got almost 10.000 downloads in 2 years. - keep writing - keep submitting Hope this helps! | 0 | 42,596 | 1.5 | ||
xgzyog | writing_train | 0.87 | I wrote a short horror story- now what? Where do I get an editor? How do I publish? Do I just wait until I’ve gotten more short stories written and try to self publish a collection? Do people even want to read a collection of stories by someone who’s never been published before? I would just google but I’m scared of running into scams. Is there a good guide out there somewhere? I’m just confused and have no clue how to begin. | iowt57t | iovp3ll | 1,663,498,460 | 1,663,470,616 | 3 | 1 | Here's what I did: - wrote several short stories - created a personal website and published them there (if you don't want to invest money, you can create a free wordpress site - I'm sure there are several free solutions to create a website) - searched for online magazines and submitted my stories - some of them were published, some not - created a short story collection and uploaded it on GooglePlay for free (you can create it in Google Docs and export is as PDF or in Canva, for free) - I got almost 10.000 downloads in 2 years. - keep writing - keep submitting Hope this helps! | Write another. Search for groups which publish short stories. Submit to them. Good luck. | 1 | 27,844 | 3 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4em3p | gz4ekg7 | 1,621,737,450 | 1,621,737,421 | 30 | 9 | Welcome to the writing world!! My advice for you is do not dive into a novel right away. Learn your craft. Practice your art, and find your style before embarking on that journey. When you write: do not write with the mindset of ‘best seller’. Write a story you want to tell. Not one you want to sell. Write short stories first. This lets you write often and gives you a chance to practice various voices, tones, settings, genres - whatever you can write to help you find your unique style. Make sure you continue reading. Because authors are still readers. Make time to write every day! Like anything else, you will only improve with dedication and discipline. Be prepared to think your writing sucks. Because first drafts do. That’s the point of them. They exist for you to get your ideas onto the page. You can then go back and edit it to make sense and tighten the prose. Lastly. Be kind to yourself. Everyone has to start somewhere. This is your starting point. Edit: a word | One thing I do is write everything. Every single idea I have goes to paper for as long as it goes and as open as I can. After this first writing exercise I leave it be for a while, read it a few times and keep on working. Now, here's the tricky part: perceiving what has potential to go on and what hasn't. It can be really hard, because usually we want everything we write to be something good. Some ideas can become books, some can become novels, some can be short stories and other will be nothing. This notion of what can be what is something that doesn't come easily but can be improved upon. In short, write everything, keep what makes you feel good. | 1 | 29 | 3.333333 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4ee4e | gz4em3p | 1,621,737,312 | 1,621,737,450 | 6 | 30 | During the process if creating characters, really get to know them. An example that has really stuck with me is that you want to be able to know what your character would have in their junk drawer. | Welcome to the writing world!! My advice for you is do not dive into a novel right away. Learn your craft. Practice your art, and find your style before embarking on that journey. When you write: do not write with the mindset of ‘best seller’. Write a story you want to tell. Not one you want to sell. Write short stories first. This lets you write often and gives you a chance to practice various voices, tones, settings, genres - whatever you can write to help you find your unique style. Make sure you continue reading. Because authors are still readers. Make time to write every day! Like anything else, you will only improve with dedication and discipline. Be prepared to think your writing sucks. Because first drafts do. That’s the point of them. They exist for you to get your ideas onto the page. You can then go back and edit it to make sense and tighten the prose. Lastly. Be kind to yourself. Everyone has to start somewhere. This is your starting point. Edit: a word | 0 | 138 | 5 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4ee4e | gz4ekg7 | 1,621,737,312 | 1,621,737,421 | 6 | 9 | During the process if creating characters, really get to know them. An example that has really stuck with me is that you want to be able to know what your character would have in their junk drawer. | One thing I do is write everything. Every single idea I have goes to paper for as long as it goes and as open as I can. After this first writing exercise I leave it be for a while, read it a few times and keep on working. Now, here's the tricky part: perceiving what has potential to go on and what hasn't. It can be really hard, because usually we want everything we write to be something good. Some ideas can become books, some can become novels, some can be short stories and other will be nothing. This notion of what can be what is something that doesn't come easily but can be improved upon. In short, write everything, keep what makes you feel good. | 0 | 109 | 1.5 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4nipv | gz4kmp4 | 1,621,743,518 | 1,621,741,459 | 3 | 2 | There are plenty of books out there on writing that cover the technical, words-on-page and habit aspects of writing (I like Stein's). What I want to share has to do with **expectations**, and avoiding A) getting a fat head or B) beating yourself up. Growth in a craft like writing is not linear. You get better, then you stall. Better, then stall. At the same time, your ability to judge how well you're doing is also growing, but it doesn't always stall in the same places. One skill is usually stronger than the other, but not for long. In this way, there will be alternating periods of "This is great!" and "This is shit!" as you grow in both the ability to create and the ability to judge what you've created. The times it feels like you're doing great are times to challenge yourself by reading and writing more (and practicing your critiquing skills). There's nothing to be done for times it feels like your writing is shit except to power through—your writing probably isn't getting worse, you're just judging it differently. Unrelated note: don't start off with novel-writing unless you have an outline handy. Practice the structure of stories, the basics of the craft, on self-contained or interlocking **short stories**. At this point, you'll get more practice by cranking out a so-so short story a month than laboring over a single half-decent first draft for a year—learning to finish things is its own valuable skill. | Just start. A famous quote, "No one can write more than 52 bad stories" Just keep writing and dont let people judge you for it. | 1 | 2,059 | 1.5 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4nj9v | gz4xq6d | 1,621,743,530 | 1,621,751,676 | 1 | 2 | Learn story structure. Basically any book in a genre has a similar story structure to other books within that genre. "The Hero's Journey" is a pretty good beginners tool to help familiarize you with story structure. Its essentially the results of someone studying how stories have been structured throughout history and compiling their commonalities into a sort of circle split into a beginning, middle, and end with various common tropes listed for each section. edit: Here is a link to what I'm talking about and also to a site that is basically a wikipedia of tropes. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHerosJourney | Writing is like bodybuilding; doing your research so you get it right is important, but no amount of research will bring progress without practice. So write! Even if it sucks, write! Expect it to suck at first. Get the garbage out of the way, so the good stuff can flow. You can only get better from your first few lines, but you'll never get better until you write those first few lines. Take this time practicing and use it to learn what sort of stories you want to tell, and what style you'll use to tell them. Try different things. Try first-person perspective and third, limited and omniscient. Try fantasy. Nonfiction. Try anything unless you already know ow it isn't for you. Brandon Sanderson has posted his Master Class lectures for sci-fi/fantasy writing on his YouTube channel, I highly recommend them. I have also learned a lot from Merphy Napier on YouTube, as well as other similar channels that discuss what readers do and don't like. | 0 | 8,146 | 2 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4sgos | gz4xq6d | 1,621,747,260 | 1,621,751,676 | 0 | 2 | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | Writing is like bodybuilding; doing your research so you get it right is important, but no amount of research will bring progress without practice. So write! Even if it sucks, write! Expect it to suck at first. Get the garbage out of the way, so the good stuff can flow. You can only get better from your first few lines, but you'll never get better until you write those first few lines. Take this time practicing and use it to learn what sort of stories you want to tell, and what style you'll use to tell them. Try different things. Try first-person perspective and third, limited and omniscient. Try fantasy. Nonfiction. Try anything unless you already know ow it isn't for you. Brandon Sanderson has posted his Master Class lectures for sci-fi/fantasy writing on his YouTube channel, I highly recommend them. I have also learned a lot from Merphy Napier on YouTube, as well as other similar channels that discuss what readers do and don't like. | 0 | 4,416 | 2,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4zqne | gz4sgos | 1,621,753,549 | 1,621,747,260 | 1 | 0 | Read a lot of stories . the more you read the more you will understand what ties stories together and makes them what they are. If you really get into reading a book series by a good author you will start to notice little details and plot devices you didn't before etc whenever you watch or read a story or narrative anywhere else. Trends and connections within a plot will stick out to you and stay in your memory much more than if you hadn't read . This in turn makes significant events in narratives blossom into what they are suppose to be , aka a serious or significant event as opposed to something Just passing your eyes on a screen. Identify what type of stories you enjoy There are a significant variety of stories , not everyone likes the plot mainly or just the characters. People have a variety of preferences this applies to authors and readers/consumers. For each of those three aspects of a story aka plot , setting and characters , you will see different takes on them . Most lean into a combination of two although the third leftover can still be good i feel like if an author tries to do all 3 the story can get a bit wordy and drag on with various aspects. (Which some people enjoy) a good way to identify your preference is to (as i mentioned previously) read a lot to see what sticks for you and what you want to see in a story . Not just reading but also watching certain shows and movies also give you a feel of what you really enjoy in a story once you have the reader oriented mind. Once you have a good 5 or 6 of your favorite stories or narratives from tv shows, movies or books you take the best of the best aspects you liked from them in the form of a diagram. Once you have that compiled on its show time .. I mean ..writing time .. | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | 1 | 6,289 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4sgos | gz50wkz | 1,621,747,260 | 1,621,754,648 | 0 | 1 | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | The best advice I can give you is to start out bad and just write it, put on a nice playlist if this is your thing, but you need to spend more time writing than planning it. If you reach the stage where your words can convey emotions (I believe you can check for yourself, ask any friends online or offline check and critique it) is when you start planning concrete stories. But during the early stages, just write what you enjoy and like reading, don't give much thought to the future content or how you can make it better, you need to fall in love with writing first. I think I would suggest starting with things you love, fanfictions, getting random prompts (if imagination is your strong suit), and just running wild with writing in general, before making your own complex ideas come to life. Emotion and imagination should be the main point for beginners, is what I believe! All the best, and just enjoy it! :D | 0 | 7,388 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4sgos | gz53cvg | 1,621,747,260 | 1,621,756,980 | 0 | 1 | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | In the same boat as you. In regards to getting started, I've been currently reading Anne Lamott's "Bird by Bird" to get my bearings straight. It's often recommended for aspiring writers. Good luck! | 0 | 9,720 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz5d7lx | gz4sgos | 1,621,766,639 | 1,621,747,260 | 1 | 0 | Here are a few things that I have learned from personal experience: 1) Write down the main events of your story in chronological order. Writing them in pointers is the best. Also, leave a few lines where you are not sure how to connect 2 events. 2) Always write a draft version, and give it a final edit. What works best for me is that I write the drafts at night (My brain works best at night) and edit them the next morning. This way, I have a fresh mind to correct my errors. 3) Don't make an expectation of how popular your story would be, or how much people will appreciate it. 4) Write the story in the way, you, as a reader, would like to read it. 5) If you feel like your story is similar to something you have read, just think if your story has a different approach or not. Remember, there is a difference between inspiration and plagiarism. 6) As a new writer, there might be times you feel like you should give up or experience writer's block. There are three things that can make it work for me: (a) Read a book that belongs to the same genre as my story. (b) Work on a different story. (c) Just sit down, read what I last wrote, and continue writing whatever bullshit comes to my mind. After all, it's a draft, I can fix the errors later. (7) Last but not least, don't stress yourself. Writing is a form of expression, just like any other art form. Don't burden yourself too much with what people would think, or how ordinary the story feels, or any deadlines. Enjoy the process, and your story will come out as a masterpiece. Hope this helps. Things could be different for you. But all you need to do is believe in yourself. Have a good day/night. | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | 1 | 19,379 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz5gxjk | gz4sgos | 1,621,769,981 | 1,621,747,260 | 1 | 0 | TL;DR: I think writing synopsis is a great help when you're starting out as it helps you learn to "land the plane" once you've got it in the air. === I've been writing for myself for 30 years. Have never published or even submitted for publication. Only a few people have read my stuff. It's literally just for me. I never finish anything (long or short) and I'm often easily distracted. That to say, even with 30 years of experience and a degree in English with a creative writing focus I'm still new as well and I struggle with things like ending stories, developing characters and building engaging, believable, plots. One thing I've been experimenting with is micro-outlines or summaries/synopsis. Example: Brays Breccan (Son), Frida (youngest daughter), Karlene (eldest daughter), Francis (mom). Remote Cabin The Brays are on a family trip into the deep woods when they accidentally stumble across a bear cub and the momma bear. Breccan is the first to notice and encourages the others to get behind him as they back up. After a tense half hour they get back to the cabin safely. The experience forces them to have some real conversations and confront Francis' divorce after their father left them. It shows how, when the dad left, that Breccan stood up to help keep the family together and act as their protector wile the youngest, Frida, was the one providing happiness and emotional support. Karlene was doing the mundane tasks of keeping the house functioning. Francis was in charge of coming to grips with what's happening. With a new understanding of their roles within the family the Bray's return home ready to confront the new reality they have to face. Themes/metaphors and symbols: The remote nature of the cabin reflects the new world the Bray's are facing. The bear cub is the actual divorce. The mama bear is the repercussions that result from the divorce. Each one during the bear encounter reflects their role within the family in the extreme as if to make it more obvious to them who does what. Their return home represents that, once they are able to appreciate each other's role and integrate the repercussions of the divorce into their lives they get their home back. And that's all I have written. It took 30 minutes? Maybe an hour? *Note: my rules are that it MUST end and it is only written in ONE paragraph on purpose even though it should be multiple paragraphs. Fighting my own writing demons and need to force my face into my obnoxiously long winded prose.* It's a whole story with an arc, characters have arcs, there's underlying themes and so on. It's not great art. I won't win any awards for this story. BUT it gave me the ability to fully realize a short story in a summary form. If I ever choose to write it I have a framework to start from. What I really like, however, is I get that feeling of having "finished" something without struggling over any hard bits. If I get stuck I can just wave my hand and say, "they discuss the issue and realize that she should have been more present." I don't have to write the conversation. Hope that's useful to you. I must have hundreds of these micro stories and associated characters. I usually write two or three a day when I'm writing. I take time off between, go back and rewrite them. Sometimes it's just a blurb and I need to flesh it out or it's become a LOT longer than needed and I trim it back. If you find this idea difficult try something like Star Wars.... Star Wars Luke, Leia, Ben, Darth. Luke is on a remote planet feeling the world is passing him by. He finds himself pulled into the real world and conflict and is forced to change to meet the challenges he faces including learning his father is not the man he thought he was. Once he's able to face the real world he learns he has a sister and that he has a mentor helping him. After many difficult trials he finally succeeds in defeating a great threat and becomes the man he'd always dreamed he would become. Your synopsis will be different than mine. It's just a thinking exercise and isn't intended as a comprehensive or even legitimate break down of the core themes in Star Wars. | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | 1 | 22,721 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4sgos | gz5o0rq | 1,621,747,260 | 1,621,775,092 | 0 | 1 | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | I'm a beginner as well and what's really helping is - no writing and editing simultaneously. | 0 | 27,832 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4sgos | gz5pnpd | 1,621,747,260 | 1,621,776,124 | 0 | 1 | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | Surround yourself with fellow writers. Learn. Absorb. Ask questions. Listen to the answers. Read lots ... and just start writing. Writing is something you can only really learn by doing and doing a lot of it. Don’t fear criticism. Crave it. Harness it. And use it. | 0 | 28,864 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz5s4l3 | gz4sgos | 1,621,777,572 | 1,621,747,260 | 1 | 0 | When creating and starting character interactions I always ask myself three questions per character. How do others see my character? How does my character see others? How does my character see themselves? You can get very dynamic and complex interactions from these three answers. And because the reader never hears or sees the questions or what their answers are, it makes your writing feel alive and "lived in" because there's more undertone to each conversation. | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | 1 | 30,312 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4sgos | gz6d212 | 1,621,747,260 | 1,621,787,818 | 0 | 1 | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | Start | 0 | 40,558 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4sgos | gz6go2z | 1,621,747,260 | 1,621,789,418 | 0 | 1 | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | In my opinion, the most important step is nailing down your characters. What motivates them? How do they react to things? Next is the setting. I like to make sure the setting and characters feel connected to each other. People are shaped by their environment. Additionally, it's fine to start with making a list of places within your setting, but it's also important to know how those places pertain to your plot. | 0 | 42,158 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz6h8r5 | gz4sgos | 1,621,789,685 | 1,621,747,260 | 1 | 0 | Look at the news. Find a story that interests you and create a backstory. Make stuff up. You can be as wild as you want. Thats what makes writing so much fun. | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | 1 | 42,425 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz78uxt | gz4sgos | 1,621,802,758 | 1,621,747,260 | 1 | 0 | My best piece of writing advice is don't get attached to the stuff you write right away. First drafts suck. They are meant to. If your first draft is so good you don't want to change it, you're probably doing something wrong that you don't understand yet. The first pass at a story should be spent building a skeleton. Flesh it out later. Don't be afraid to write something and then throw it away. Don't be afraid to just completely rewrite stuff. Or wrote something just to play with, even if it would never happen for your characters. Also, play nice with your editors. It's two completely different skill sets, writing and editing. They're job is to nit-pick and challenge things about your writing/story to give you an opportunity to clarify your message before readers do it. | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | 1 | 55,498 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz4sgos | gz7i8y7 | 1,621,747,260 | 1,621,807,234 | 0 | 1 | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | Hello! I'm a beginner in writing but am currently in the process of story structuring! My advice would be to start with an idea, what kind of story you want to tell? Which one excites you the most? It was a trial for me having to come up with numerous ideas and being indecisive on which one to pick until about last year. I would say write down any ideas you have, in short summary or notes and such, and if there's an idea that has your most interest like you're writing more details to it than the other set of ideas you have, start making an outline for it. There's great videos that teaches how to outline a story you want to do. Here's one! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fe3eodLF_Uo&t=324s Keep in mind that you dont always have to follow the outline exactly. It's a way to map out key elements in your story ut things can change once you start actually writing them out. When that happens, don't worry! You're developing your story on the go and some new ideas might come along way, and you'll have the freedom to flesh them out! | 0 | 59,974 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz8pj91 | gz4sgos | 1,621,832,184 | 1,621,747,260 | 1 | 0 | My only advice (I'm a thumb-sucking baby writer myself) would just be to start. Pick an idea, then go write. Whether it's short or long or a series or a one-off or whatever is secondary. Just sit at a keyboard or with a pen, and let it out as much as you can. I say this because what motivates me to write is feeling like a writer, like I can myself one, because I take time to write. And for me, that was the perfect place to jump off from. | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | 1 | 84,924 | 1,000 | ||
niy1it | writing_train | 0.9 | Any advice for someone who wants to start creating stories? Literally any advice on any part of writing you can give would help, but mostly any beginner advice would help since I have never created any story. | gz9snkn | gz4sgos | 1,621,863,835 | 1,621,747,260 | 1 | 0 | My advice would be to keep a journal of ideas. Does not matter how dumb you think they are now... how silly they sound, how weak the plot. Write the ideas down and keep them aside. Later... a month, year, week... whatever, go back through them. You may suddenly have things to add to make them work and rock. Because you never know. I look at it like this. If Stephanie Meyer could make glittery, metrosexual, vampires a thing.... we ALL have a chance! | If you wanna start by creating stories, learn to find inspiration. Writing comes with practice, but means nothing if you have no ideas. Look at the world around you and learn to find ideas for new mechanics, plot threads, characters. Etc. For example, I have a world inspired by 3 words, magic space pirates. Tell me, what story can you create off those 3 words. | 1 | 116,575 | 1,000 | ||
hzjs6z | writing_train | 1 | Looking for advice for someone who wants to try to make a living out of writing. Hello everyone! I've been lurking in this subreddit for quite some time and now I've found myself in the position to request your endless supply of knowledge. To make a long story short, I'm in the middle of three week long vacation and it's the first time in my life I feel a terrible sense of dread about going back to work and spend my days staring blankly at excel sheets. I love to write, despite all the frustration it caused me at first, and I always thought about it as a hobby. I want to try, now that I can, to see if it's possible for me to do it as a profession. Or at least try to have it as a side job so I don't lose my mind working in an office. I usually just write Fantasy but I'm open to any activity which involves writing at all. Because of that, I'm looking for advice to see how I can go about it. In other words, I'd appriciate anything regarding: * How to actually make a living out of writing? I know there are some websites where you can offer your services but that's about it. * If you are doing it now, did you train yourself in any way and how? I'm interested in your life experiences. * What types of jobs which involve writing are you familiar with or recommend? Thank you in advance and I hope you can help me! (English is not my first language, so sorry if there are any mistakes!) | fzjdy11 | fzjcoaa | 1,595,961,015 | 1,595,960,408 | 5 | 4 | Nearly no one is making their living writing fiction. Most published authors still have a day job, because until you hit "all-star" territory, you're not going to make enough money to live on. There are plenty of folks who make a living writing- journalists, legal and technical writers, website content creators, etc. But you're unlikely to be able to support yourself solely from book and short story sales for a very long time. | I'm familiar with writing books and freelancing. Freelancing sucks unless you're doing articles or non-fiction. Your goal should be to make more money every month by doing less work. This is achieved by investing your earnings into something like stock or crypto and doing things like patreon, having ads on your own website, or posting in a place like medium, all while promoting the sales of your ebooks or even using your ebooks and physical copies as a marketing tool. | 1 | 607 | 1.25 | ||
zym30p | writing_train | 0.73 | How to convey someone is finishing another person's sentence in dialogue? For example, would I do this?: "Hey, I know I-" "-Messed up? Yeah, I know." Someone finished my sentence. Or would I remove the dash in the dialogue by the unknown person? | j27nsc9 | j26o6zm | 1,672,379,643 | 1,672,362,724 | 7 | 3 | “I think this is how you convey finishing—“ “A sentence!” “Don’t interrupt me.” | Yes. | 1 | 16,919 | 2.333333 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0neh8a | j0mya4a | 1,671,321,900 | 1,671,314,639 | 187 | 46 | Have you tried Google support? They can actually help recover accounts in these types of situations. | I lost a few years once when a drive was stolen. That was a hard lesson. Now I do hardcopies of everything. | 1 | 7,261 | 4.065217 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0n2kkd | j0neh8a | 1,671,316,498 | 1,671,321,900 | 12 | 187 | This is why I always have multiple back ups | Have you tried Google support? They can actually help recover accounts in these types of situations. | 0 | 5,402 | 15.583333 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0n64vj | j0neh8a | 1,671,318,080 | 1,671,321,900 | 8 | 187 | You've found the cure! | Have you tried Google support? They can actually help recover accounts in these types of situations. | 0 | 3,820 | 23.375 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0neh8a | j0n2hy6 | 1,671,321,900 | 1,671,316,466 | 187 | 6 | Have you tried Google support? They can actually help recover accounts in these types of situations. | Can't say I have dealt with anything like this, but you may just need to give it time. Don't expect to be productive soon. Don't set goals. Maybe even take a break if you need. But if you persist, eventually you can rekindle your motivation. I had to stop writing for a couple years due to family / health reasons. For a while I had zero interest. Now? All that time away has made me want to write more. | 1 | 5,434 | 31.166667 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0neh8a | j0n5cgw | 1,671,321,900 | 1,671,317,727 | 187 | 3 | Have you tried Google support? They can actually help recover accounts in these types of situations. | I have at least 5 or six generations of obsolete computer data disks all with stories in various forms going back to the commodore 64. All lost to passing tech. I have two storage tubs of actual printed out copies of stories that have been saved through out the years but I never look at them. | 1 | 4,173 | 62.333333 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nwv55 | j0mya4a | 1,671,330,712 | 1,671,314,639 | 53 | 46 | Contact google support about account recovery. And don’t think of it as losing everything, think about it as a fresh start. Now you can build everything back up better than it was before, be more organized, start creating new projects. | I lost a few years once when a drive was stolen. That was a hard lesson. Now I do hardcopies of everything. | 1 | 16,073 | 1.152174 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0n2kkd | j0nwv55 | 1,671,316,498 | 1,671,330,712 | 12 | 53 | This is why I always have multiple back ups | Contact google support about account recovery. And don’t think of it as losing everything, think about it as a fresh start. Now you can build everything back up better than it was before, be more organized, start creating new projects. | 0 | 14,214 | 4.416667 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nwv55 | j0n64vj | 1,671,330,712 | 1,671,318,080 | 53 | 8 | Contact google support about account recovery. And don’t think of it as losing everything, think about it as a fresh start. Now you can build everything back up better than it was before, be more organized, start creating new projects. | You've found the cure! | 1 | 12,632 | 6.625 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0n2hy6 | j0nwv55 | 1,671,316,466 | 1,671,330,712 | 6 | 53 | Can't say I have dealt with anything like this, but you may just need to give it time. Don't expect to be productive soon. Don't set goals. Maybe even take a break if you need. But if you persist, eventually you can rekindle your motivation. I had to stop writing for a couple years due to family / health reasons. For a while I had zero interest. Now? All that time away has made me want to write more. | Contact google support about account recovery. And don’t think of it as losing everything, think about it as a fresh start. Now you can build everything back up better than it was before, be more organized, start creating new projects. | 0 | 14,246 | 8.833333 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nwv55 | j0n5cgw | 1,671,330,712 | 1,671,317,727 | 53 | 3 | Contact google support about account recovery. And don’t think of it as losing everything, think about it as a fresh start. Now you can build everything back up better than it was before, be more organized, start creating new projects. | I have at least 5 or six generations of obsolete computer data disks all with stories in various forms going back to the commodore 64. All lost to passing tech. I have two storage tubs of actual printed out copies of stories that have been saved through out the years but I never look at them. | 1 | 12,985 | 17.666667 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nr66i | j0nwv55 | 1,671,327,977 | 1,671,330,712 | 2 | 53 | You wrote this. That is a start. | Contact google support about account recovery. And don’t think of it as losing everything, think about it as a fresh start. Now you can build everything back up better than it was before, be more organized, start creating new projects. | 0 | 2,735 | 26.5 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nwv55 | j0nwqba | 1,671,330,712 | 1,671,330,645 | 53 | 1 | Contact google support about account recovery. And don’t think of it as losing everything, think about it as a fresh start. Now you can build everything back up better than it was before, be more organized, start creating new projects. | Something similar happened to me when I lost my thumb drive with a major portion of my writings. Roughly five years worth of stories. I was devastated and didn’t write for about four years. I still think about it but I slowly got back into writing. I suggest you keep writing. You can mourn the loss of the past but keep writing anyway. | 1 | 67 | 53 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oy2rt | j0n2kkd | 1,671,354,125 | 1,671,316,498 | 20 | 12 | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | This is why I always have multiple back ups | 1 | 37,627 | 1.666667 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oy2rt | j0ocf7l | 1,671,354,125 | 1,671,338,765 | 20 | 12 | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | This happened to me once, the flash drive I saved everything to got corrupted. It was devastating to me at the time. My father is a tech expert and managed to recover a form of the files, which were all formatted weirdly and I'd have to go in and fix all of the documents. I never really ended up fixing most of them. One or two projects I rescued, but the rest of them remain a weird jumble of HTML. Within a year, I'd outgrown my writing from those files and moved on to better things. I hate to be one of those "a bad situation is just an opportunity" people, but that's what it turned out to be for me. Our writing is always improving and evolving. This may be a chance to resurrect your projects in a way that's ultimately better for them, or to move on to something else entirely. In any case, your 7 years of writing is not completely lost. It sucks to not have access to the history of your craft, but you still spent seven years gaining skills, and those don't go away with a forgotten password. And as someone else said, check with Google support, you may end up being fine. | 1 | 15,360 | 1.666667 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oy2rt | j0n64vj | 1,671,354,125 | 1,671,318,080 | 20 | 8 | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | You've found the cure! | 1 | 36,045 | 2.5 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oy2rt | j0o5xun | 1,671,354,125 | 1,671,335,313 | 20 | 6 | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | This may be a blessing in disguise. Now you can start fresh when you feel up to it. | 1 | 18,812 | 3.333333 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oy2rt | j0n2hy6 | 1,671,354,125 | 1,671,316,466 | 20 | 6 | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | Can't say I have dealt with anything like this, but you may just need to give it time. Don't expect to be productive soon. Don't set goals. Maybe even take a break if you need. But if you persist, eventually you can rekindle your motivation. I had to stop writing for a couple years due to family / health reasons. For a while I had zero interest. Now? All that time away has made me want to write more. | 1 | 37,659 | 3.333333 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oy2rt | j0n5cgw | 1,671,354,125 | 1,671,317,727 | 20 | 3 | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | I have at least 5 or six generations of obsolete computer data disks all with stories in various forms going back to the commodore 64. All lost to passing tech. I have two storage tubs of actual printed out copies of stories that have been saved through out the years but I never look at them. | 1 | 36,398 | 6.666667 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oy2rt | j0nr66i | 1,671,354,125 | 1,671,327,977 | 20 | 2 | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | You wrote this. That is a start. | 1 | 26,148 | 10 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oy2rt | j0o2seq | 1,671,354,125 | 1,671,333,689 | 20 | 2 | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | I remember years ago this guy had been working in his doctorate for like 10+ years, when it hit him, everything was stored on 5 1/4” floppy discs, he realised if his computer went down he could be in trouble as current computers would run a 5 1/4” drive Luckily putting out a call on bulletin boards (yes it was that long ago) someone wrote a program for a driver for a floppy drive and another person wrote a separate program to slow down a modern computer to be able to read the drive. He literally could’ve lost his lives work, always have multiple backups | 1 | 20,436 | 10 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oelvx | j0oy2rt | 1,671,339,994 | 1,671,354,125 | 2 | 20 | Had a similar experience early on in my writing. Started daily writing in Grade 6. 20 minutes before school started, each break, and about an hour-ish end of day. Every day until about halfway through Grade 10. I was a slow typist, but that sort of streak builds quite the catalog, as you probably know. I kept all of it on a flash drive. Nifty one on a lanyard, wore it every day sort of deal. Always had my writing with me wherever I was. It was sticking out of the old computer towers in my high school library one day when one of my abusers heel kicked it and snapped the thing in half. My dad is an IT guy, I collected all the pieces and showed him in hopes he could work some magic. It hurt him to tell me there was no recovering anything on that drive. It's been ten years, a lot has happened since. And that's kind of what I want to pass on to you. You'll go through/are going through a mouring phase (you are ALLOWED that! Give yourself space for that.) It will make things rusty. You'll start from Square One 2.0. You have a wealth of experience behind you BUT you're not the same writer you are when you first started. And... you're going to slowly work back up. The scary thing to accept? That writing style you found? It might never come back. It's something you can keep in mind, keep as a guide while you work the rust off. But your "new" writing is going to basically run parallel to that. Because you're still going to be growing and maturing. You MIGHT get really close to thar style and realize you kind of jumped ahead, and that's always cool. Just... give yourself time. It will come back. | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | 0 | 14,131 | 10 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oy2rt | j0onhyy | 1,671,354,125 | 1,671,345,813 | 20 | 2 | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | Have you tried picking up a book maybe? Or even just rewatching a favorite movie or tv show. I find revisiting my favorite stories can rekindle my desire to write since I want to create something just as good. Also, it's okay if you don't want to write anymore. Don't force yourself to do something you don't want to do. | 1 | 8,312 | 10 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nwqba | j0oy2rt | 1,671,330,645 | 1,671,354,125 | 1 | 20 | Something similar happened to me when I lost my thumb drive with a major portion of my writings. Roughly five years worth of stories. I was devastated and didn’t write for about four years. I still think about it but I slowly got back into writing. I suggest you keep writing. You can mourn the loss of the past but keep writing anyway. | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | 0 | 23,480 | 20 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nxqlm | j0oy2rt | 1,671,331,144 | 1,671,354,125 | 1 | 20 | Sounds like you're feeling some creative burnout, lovely. The best advice is to put your writing aside for a while and let yourself rest. Don't force yourself to turn up when you're running on empty. This took me a long time to learn and I spent years trying to make writing happen for me again. It was only when I truly stopped trying, stopped stressing about it, and rested that it all started flowing again. | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | 0 | 22,981 | 20 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oy2rt | j0o3emm | 1,671,354,125 | 1,671,334,008 | 20 | 0 | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | That sucks. Sorry man or woman. I had my belongings stolen when I was traveling in Argentina and lost several unfinished novels that I had been working on, but hadn't backed up because this was long ago and internet storage didn't really exist back then. I was basically bummed from writing again for the rest of the year. However, then I got back into doing NaNoWriMo and my flow returned. If this just happened, it's going to feel insurmountable, but time heals all wounds, even this. It will always suck that this happened to you, but you will write new things if you open yourself back up to your passion. | 1 | 20,117 | 20,000 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oy2rt | j0ohnss | 1,671,354,125 | 1,671,341,868 | 20 | 1 | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | ❤ | 1 | 12,257 | 20 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oj44l | j0oy2rt | 1,671,342,805 | 1,671,354,125 | 1 | 20 | Always been scared of this. I have my story’s shared with all of my other accounts, and even friends accounts just in case something like that were to ever happen. | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | 0 | 11,320 | 20 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oy2rt | j0otvfq | 1,671,354,125 | 1,671,350,725 | 20 | 1 | I'm so sorry! That's heartbreaking. Do you know the Italian poet Dino Campana? He wrote a poetry book that took him years to make and presented it to two of the most famous Italian poets of the time. They ridiculed him and in a night of drinking they lost the only copy of his book. In the next years he rewrote the book from the start and published it autonomously. Now it's been recognized as one of the most interesting Italian poetry from the '900. I'm not saying that you should write everything again, I just hope his story can give you hope. You can find your passion again! Don't force it, just do stuff you like, try and try again to find It and It Will come back once again!! | I'm so sorry to hear this. It must have been such shock to find out you cannot access your stories anymore. There have been some good suggestions already. Contact Google for sure. I want to add: did you participate in any writing contest or did you otherwise share stories with other people? So trying to solve the problem is definitely important. Yet, I think that there is another aspect that needs to be done for you to recover your writing, and that is mourning. You have experienced a great loss, and it takes time to get over this. Give yourself a break. Be kind to yourself. You might want to start with some journaling about what happened. Or journal about what you experience in this moment: what do you feel, and how welcome are those feelings for you? Take care! | 1 | 3,400 | 20 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0n2kkd | j0n2hy6 | 1,671,316,498 | 1,671,316,466 | 12 | 6 | This is why I always have multiple back ups | Can't say I have dealt with anything like this, but you may just need to give it time. Don't expect to be productive soon. Don't set goals. Maybe even take a break if you need. But if you persist, eventually you can rekindle your motivation. I had to stop writing for a couple years due to family / health reasons. For a while I had zero interest. Now? All that time away has made me want to write more. | 1 | 32 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0ocf7l | j0n64vj | 1,671,338,765 | 1,671,318,080 | 12 | 8 | This happened to me once, the flash drive I saved everything to got corrupted. It was devastating to me at the time. My father is a tech expert and managed to recover a form of the files, which were all formatted weirdly and I'd have to go in and fix all of the documents. I never really ended up fixing most of them. One or two projects I rescued, but the rest of them remain a weird jumble of HTML. Within a year, I'd outgrown my writing from those files and moved on to better things. I hate to be one of those "a bad situation is just an opportunity" people, but that's what it turned out to be for me. Our writing is always improving and evolving. This may be a chance to resurrect your projects in a way that's ultimately better for them, or to move on to something else entirely. In any case, your 7 years of writing is not completely lost. It sucks to not have access to the history of your craft, but you still spent seven years gaining skills, and those don't go away with a forgotten password. And as someone else said, check with Google support, you may end up being fine. | You've found the cure! | 1 | 20,685 | 1.5 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0ocf7l | j0o5xun | 1,671,338,765 | 1,671,335,313 | 12 | 6 | This happened to me once, the flash drive I saved everything to got corrupted. It was devastating to me at the time. My father is a tech expert and managed to recover a form of the files, which were all formatted weirdly and I'd have to go in and fix all of the documents. I never really ended up fixing most of them. One or two projects I rescued, but the rest of them remain a weird jumble of HTML. Within a year, I'd outgrown my writing from those files and moved on to better things. I hate to be one of those "a bad situation is just an opportunity" people, but that's what it turned out to be for me. Our writing is always improving and evolving. This may be a chance to resurrect your projects in a way that's ultimately better for them, or to move on to something else entirely. In any case, your 7 years of writing is not completely lost. It sucks to not have access to the history of your craft, but you still spent seven years gaining skills, and those don't go away with a forgotten password. And as someone else said, check with Google support, you may end up being fine. | This may be a blessing in disguise. Now you can start fresh when you feel up to it. | 1 | 3,452 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0n2hy6 | j0ocf7l | 1,671,316,466 | 1,671,338,765 | 6 | 12 | Can't say I have dealt with anything like this, but you may just need to give it time. Don't expect to be productive soon. Don't set goals. Maybe even take a break if you need. But if you persist, eventually you can rekindle your motivation. I had to stop writing for a couple years due to family / health reasons. For a while I had zero interest. Now? All that time away has made me want to write more. | This happened to me once, the flash drive I saved everything to got corrupted. It was devastating to me at the time. My father is a tech expert and managed to recover a form of the files, which were all formatted weirdly and I'd have to go in and fix all of the documents. I never really ended up fixing most of them. One or two projects I rescued, but the rest of them remain a weird jumble of HTML. Within a year, I'd outgrown my writing from those files and moved on to better things. I hate to be one of those "a bad situation is just an opportunity" people, but that's what it turned out to be for me. Our writing is always improving and evolving. This may be a chance to resurrect your projects in a way that's ultimately better for them, or to move on to something else entirely. In any case, your 7 years of writing is not completely lost. It sucks to not have access to the history of your craft, but you still spent seven years gaining skills, and those don't go away with a forgotten password. And as someone else said, check with Google support, you may end up being fine. | 0 | 22,299 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0ocf7l | j0n5cgw | 1,671,338,765 | 1,671,317,727 | 12 | 3 | This happened to me once, the flash drive I saved everything to got corrupted. It was devastating to me at the time. My father is a tech expert and managed to recover a form of the files, which were all formatted weirdly and I'd have to go in and fix all of the documents. I never really ended up fixing most of them. One or two projects I rescued, but the rest of them remain a weird jumble of HTML. Within a year, I'd outgrown my writing from those files and moved on to better things. I hate to be one of those "a bad situation is just an opportunity" people, but that's what it turned out to be for me. Our writing is always improving and evolving. This may be a chance to resurrect your projects in a way that's ultimately better for them, or to move on to something else entirely. In any case, your 7 years of writing is not completely lost. It sucks to not have access to the history of your craft, but you still spent seven years gaining skills, and those don't go away with a forgotten password. And as someone else said, check with Google support, you may end up being fine. | I have at least 5 or six generations of obsolete computer data disks all with stories in various forms going back to the commodore 64. All lost to passing tech. I have two storage tubs of actual printed out copies of stories that have been saved through out the years but I never look at them. | 1 | 21,038 | 4 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0ocf7l | j0nr66i | 1,671,338,765 | 1,671,327,977 | 12 | 2 | This happened to me once, the flash drive I saved everything to got corrupted. It was devastating to me at the time. My father is a tech expert and managed to recover a form of the files, which were all formatted weirdly and I'd have to go in and fix all of the documents. I never really ended up fixing most of them. One or two projects I rescued, but the rest of them remain a weird jumble of HTML. Within a year, I'd outgrown my writing from those files and moved on to better things. I hate to be one of those "a bad situation is just an opportunity" people, but that's what it turned out to be for me. Our writing is always improving and evolving. This may be a chance to resurrect your projects in a way that's ultimately better for them, or to move on to something else entirely. In any case, your 7 years of writing is not completely lost. It sucks to not have access to the history of your craft, but you still spent seven years gaining skills, and those don't go away with a forgotten password. And as someone else said, check with Google support, you may end up being fine. | You wrote this. That is a start. | 1 | 10,788 | 6 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0o2seq | j0ocf7l | 1,671,333,689 | 1,671,338,765 | 2 | 12 | I remember years ago this guy had been working in his doctorate for like 10+ years, when it hit him, everything was stored on 5 1/4” floppy discs, he realised if his computer went down he could be in trouble as current computers would run a 5 1/4” drive Luckily putting out a call on bulletin boards (yes it was that long ago) someone wrote a program for a driver for a floppy drive and another person wrote a separate program to slow down a modern computer to be able to read the drive. He literally could’ve lost his lives work, always have multiple backups | This happened to me once, the flash drive I saved everything to got corrupted. It was devastating to me at the time. My father is a tech expert and managed to recover a form of the files, which were all formatted weirdly and I'd have to go in and fix all of the documents. I never really ended up fixing most of them. One or two projects I rescued, but the rest of them remain a weird jumble of HTML. Within a year, I'd outgrown my writing from those files and moved on to better things. I hate to be one of those "a bad situation is just an opportunity" people, but that's what it turned out to be for me. Our writing is always improving and evolving. This may be a chance to resurrect your projects in a way that's ultimately better for them, or to move on to something else entirely. In any case, your 7 years of writing is not completely lost. It sucks to not have access to the history of your craft, but you still spent seven years gaining skills, and those don't go away with a forgotten password. And as someone else said, check with Google support, you may end up being fine. | 0 | 5,076 | 6 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0ocf7l | j0nwqba | 1,671,338,765 | 1,671,330,645 | 12 | 1 | This happened to me once, the flash drive I saved everything to got corrupted. It was devastating to me at the time. My father is a tech expert and managed to recover a form of the files, which were all formatted weirdly and I'd have to go in and fix all of the documents. I never really ended up fixing most of them. One or two projects I rescued, but the rest of them remain a weird jumble of HTML. Within a year, I'd outgrown my writing from those files and moved on to better things. I hate to be one of those "a bad situation is just an opportunity" people, but that's what it turned out to be for me. Our writing is always improving and evolving. This may be a chance to resurrect your projects in a way that's ultimately better for them, or to move on to something else entirely. In any case, your 7 years of writing is not completely lost. It sucks to not have access to the history of your craft, but you still spent seven years gaining skills, and those don't go away with a forgotten password. And as someone else said, check with Google support, you may end up being fine. | Something similar happened to me when I lost my thumb drive with a major portion of my writings. Roughly five years worth of stories. I was devastated and didn’t write for about four years. I still think about it but I slowly got back into writing. I suggest you keep writing. You can mourn the loss of the past but keep writing anyway. | 1 | 8,120 | 12 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nxqlm | j0ocf7l | 1,671,331,144 | 1,671,338,765 | 1 | 12 | Sounds like you're feeling some creative burnout, lovely. The best advice is to put your writing aside for a while and let yourself rest. Don't force yourself to turn up when you're running on empty. This took me a long time to learn and I spent years trying to make writing happen for me again. It was only when I truly stopped trying, stopped stressing about it, and rested that it all started flowing again. | This happened to me once, the flash drive I saved everything to got corrupted. It was devastating to me at the time. My father is a tech expert and managed to recover a form of the files, which were all formatted weirdly and I'd have to go in and fix all of the documents. I never really ended up fixing most of them. One or two projects I rescued, but the rest of them remain a weird jumble of HTML. Within a year, I'd outgrown my writing from those files and moved on to better things. I hate to be one of those "a bad situation is just an opportunity" people, but that's what it turned out to be for me. Our writing is always improving and evolving. This may be a chance to resurrect your projects in a way that's ultimately better for them, or to move on to something else entirely. In any case, your 7 years of writing is not completely lost. It sucks to not have access to the history of your craft, but you still spent seven years gaining skills, and those don't go away with a forgotten password. And as someone else said, check with Google support, you may end up being fine. | 0 | 7,621 | 12 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0ocf7l | j0o3emm | 1,671,338,765 | 1,671,334,008 | 12 | 0 | This happened to me once, the flash drive I saved everything to got corrupted. It was devastating to me at the time. My father is a tech expert and managed to recover a form of the files, which were all formatted weirdly and I'd have to go in and fix all of the documents. I never really ended up fixing most of them. One or two projects I rescued, but the rest of them remain a weird jumble of HTML. Within a year, I'd outgrown my writing from those files and moved on to better things. I hate to be one of those "a bad situation is just an opportunity" people, but that's what it turned out to be for me. Our writing is always improving and evolving. This may be a chance to resurrect your projects in a way that's ultimately better for them, or to move on to something else entirely. In any case, your 7 years of writing is not completely lost. It sucks to not have access to the history of your craft, but you still spent seven years gaining skills, and those don't go away with a forgotten password. And as someone else said, check with Google support, you may end up being fine. | That sucks. Sorry man or woman. I had my belongings stolen when I was traveling in Argentina and lost several unfinished novels that I had been working on, but hadn't backed up because this was long ago and internet storage didn't really exist back then. I was basically bummed from writing again for the rest of the year. However, then I got back into doing NaNoWriMo and my flow returned. If this just happened, it's going to feel insurmountable, but time heals all wounds, even this. It will always suck that this happened to you, but you will write new things if you open yourself back up to your passion. | 1 | 4,757 | 12,000 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0n64vj | j0n2hy6 | 1,671,318,080 | 1,671,316,466 | 8 | 6 | You've found the cure! | Can't say I have dealt with anything like this, but you may just need to give it time. Don't expect to be productive soon. Don't set goals. Maybe even take a break if you need. But if you persist, eventually you can rekindle your motivation. I had to stop writing for a couple years due to family / health reasons. For a while I had zero interest. Now? All that time away has made me want to write more. | 1 | 1,614 | 1.333333 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0n5cgw | j0n64vj | 1,671,317,727 | 1,671,318,080 | 3 | 8 | I have at least 5 or six generations of obsolete computer data disks all with stories in various forms going back to the commodore 64. All lost to passing tech. I have two storage tubs of actual printed out copies of stories that have been saved through out the years but I never look at them. | You've found the cure! | 0 | 353 | 2.666667 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0o5xun | j0n5cgw | 1,671,335,313 | 1,671,317,727 | 6 | 3 | This may be a blessing in disguise. Now you can start fresh when you feel up to it. | I have at least 5 or six generations of obsolete computer data disks all with stories in various forms going back to the commodore 64. All lost to passing tech. I have two storage tubs of actual printed out copies of stories that have been saved through out the years but I never look at them. | 1 | 17,586 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nr66i | j0o5xun | 1,671,327,977 | 1,671,335,313 | 2 | 6 | You wrote this. That is a start. | This may be a blessing in disguise. Now you can start fresh when you feel up to it. | 0 | 7,336 | 3 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0o5xun | j0o2seq | 1,671,335,313 | 1,671,333,689 | 6 | 2 | This may be a blessing in disguise. Now you can start fresh when you feel up to it. | I remember years ago this guy had been working in his doctorate for like 10+ years, when it hit him, everything was stored on 5 1/4” floppy discs, he realised if his computer went down he could be in trouble as current computers would run a 5 1/4” drive Luckily putting out a call on bulletin boards (yes it was that long ago) someone wrote a program for a driver for a floppy drive and another person wrote a separate program to slow down a modern computer to be able to read the drive. He literally could’ve lost his lives work, always have multiple backups | 1 | 1,624 | 3 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0o5xun | j0nwqba | 1,671,335,313 | 1,671,330,645 | 6 | 1 | This may be a blessing in disguise. Now you can start fresh when you feel up to it. | Something similar happened to me when I lost my thumb drive with a major portion of my writings. Roughly five years worth of stories. I was devastated and didn’t write for about four years. I still think about it but I slowly got back into writing. I suggest you keep writing. You can mourn the loss of the past but keep writing anyway. | 1 | 4,668 | 6 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nxqlm | j0o5xun | 1,671,331,144 | 1,671,335,313 | 1 | 6 | Sounds like you're feeling some creative burnout, lovely. The best advice is to put your writing aside for a while and let yourself rest. Don't force yourself to turn up when you're running on empty. This took me a long time to learn and I spent years trying to make writing happen for me again. It was only when I truly stopped trying, stopped stressing about it, and rested that it all started flowing again. | This may be a blessing in disguise. Now you can start fresh when you feel up to it. | 0 | 4,169 | 6 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0o3emm | j0o5xun | 1,671,334,008 | 1,671,335,313 | 0 | 6 | That sucks. Sorry man or woman. I had my belongings stolen when I was traveling in Argentina and lost several unfinished novels that I had been working on, but hadn't backed up because this was long ago and internet storage didn't really exist back then. I was basically bummed from writing again for the rest of the year. However, then I got back into doing NaNoWriMo and my flow returned. If this just happened, it's going to feel insurmountable, but time heals all wounds, even this. It will always suck that this happened to you, but you will write new things if you open yourself back up to your passion. | This may be a blessing in disguise. Now you can start fresh when you feel up to it. | 0 | 1,305 | 6,000 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0o2seq | j0nwqba | 1,671,333,689 | 1,671,330,645 | 2 | 1 | I remember years ago this guy had been working in his doctorate for like 10+ years, when it hit him, everything was stored on 5 1/4” floppy discs, he realised if his computer went down he could be in trouble as current computers would run a 5 1/4” drive Luckily putting out a call on bulletin boards (yes it was that long ago) someone wrote a program for a driver for a floppy drive and another person wrote a separate program to slow down a modern computer to be able to read the drive. He literally could’ve lost his lives work, always have multiple backups | Something similar happened to me when I lost my thumb drive with a major portion of my writings. Roughly five years worth of stories. I was devastated and didn’t write for about four years. I still think about it but I slowly got back into writing. I suggest you keep writing. You can mourn the loss of the past but keep writing anyway. | 1 | 3,044 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0o2seq | j0nxqlm | 1,671,333,689 | 1,671,331,144 | 2 | 1 | I remember years ago this guy had been working in his doctorate for like 10+ years, when it hit him, everything was stored on 5 1/4” floppy discs, he realised if his computer went down he could be in trouble as current computers would run a 5 1/4” drive Luckily putting out a call on bulletin boards (yes it was that long ago) someone wrote a program for a driver for a floppy drive and another person wrote a separate program to slow down a modern computer to be able to read the drive. He literally could’ve lost his lives work, always have multiple backups | Sounds like you're feeling some creative burnout, lovely. The best advice is to put your writing aside for a while and let yourself rest. Don't force yourself to turn up when you're running on empty. This took me a long time to learn and I spent years trying to make writing happen for me again. It was only when I truly stopped trying, stopped stressing about it, and rested that it all started flowing again. | 1 | 2,545 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nwqba | j0oelvx | 1,671,330,645 | 1,671,339,994 | 1 | 2 | Something similar happened to me when I lost my thumb drive with a major portion of my writings. Roughly five years worth of stories. I was devastated and didn’t write for about four years. I still think about it but I slowly got back into writing. I suggest you keep writing. You can mourn the loss of the past but keep writing anyway. | Had a similar experience early on in my writing. Started daily writing in Grade 6. 20 minutes before school started, each break, and about an hour-ish end of day. Every day until about halfway through Grade 10. I was a slow typist, but that sort of streak builds quite the catalog, as you probably know. I kept all of it on a flash drive. Nifty one on a lanyard, wore it every day sort of deal. Always had my writing with me wherever I was. It was sticking out of the old computer towers in my high school library one day when one of my abusers heel kicked it and snapped the thing in half. My dad is an IT guy, I collected all the pieces and showed him in hopes he could work some magic. It hurt him to tell me there was no recovering anything on that drive. It's been ten years, a lot has happened since. And that's kind of what I want to pass on to you. You'll go through/are going through a mouring phase (you are ALLOWED that! Give yourself space for that.) It will make things rusty. You'll start from Square One 2.0. You have a wealth of experience behind you BUT you're not the same writer you are when you first started. And... you're going to slowly work back up. The scary thing to accept? That writing style you found? It might never come back. It's something you can keep in mind, keep as a guide while you work the rust off. But your "new" writing is going to basically run parallel to that. Because you're still going to be growing and maturing. You MIGHT get really close to thar style and realize you kind of jumped ahead, and that's always cool. Just... give yourself time. It will come back. | 0 | 9,349 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nxqlm | j0oelvx | 1,671,331,144 | 1,671,339,994 | 1 | 2 | Sounds like you're feeling some creative burnout, lovely. The best advice is to put your writing aside for a while and let yourself rest. Don't force yourself to turn up when you're running on empty. This took me a long time to learn and I spent years trying to make writing happen for me again. It was only when I truly stopped trying, stopped stressing about it, and rested that it all started flowing again. | Had a similar experience early on in my writing. Started daily writing in Grade 6. 20 minutes before school started, each break, and about an hour-ish end of day. Every day until about halfway through Grade 10. I was a slow typist, but that sort of streak builds quite the catalog, as you probably know. I kept all of it on a flash drive. Nifty one on a lanyard, wore it every day sort of deal. Always had my writing with me wherever I was. It was sticking out of the old computer towers in my high school library one day when one of my abusers heel kicked it and snapped the thing in half. My dad is an IT guy, I collected all the pieces and showed him in hopes he could work some magic. It hurt him to tell me there was no recovering anything on that drive. It's been ten years, a lot has happened since. And that's kind of what I want to pass on to you. You'll go through/are going through a mouring phase (you are ALLOWED that! Give yourself space for that.) It will make things rusty. You'll start from Square One 2.0. You have a wealth of experience behind you BUT you're not the same writer you are when you first started. And... you're going to slowly work back up. The scary thing to accept? That writing style you found? It might never come back. It's something you can keep in mind, keep as a guide while you work the rust off. But your "new" writing is going to basically run parallel to that. Because you're still going to be growing and maturing. You MIGHT get really close to thar style and realize you kind of jumped ahead, and that's always cool. Just... give yourself time. It will come back. | 0 | 8,850 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0o3emm | j0oelvx | 1,671,334,008 | 1,671,339,994 | 0 | 2 | That sucks. Sorry man or woman. I had my belongings stolen when I was traveling in Argentina and lost several unfinished novels that I had been working on, but hadn't backed up because this was long ago and internet storage didn't really exist back then. I was basically bummed from writing again for the rest of the year. However, then I got back into doing NaNoWriMo and my flow returned. If this just happened, it's going to feel insurmountable, but time heals all wounds, even this. It will always suck that this happened to you, but you will write new things if you open yourself back up to your passion. | Had a similar experience early on in my writing. Started daily writing in Grade 6. 20 minutes before school started, each break, and about an hour-ish end of day. Every day until about halfway through Grade 10. I was a slow typist, but that sort of streak builds quite the catalog, as you probably know. I kept all of it on a flash drive. Nifty one on a lanyard, wore it every day sort of deal. Always had my writing with me wherever I was. It was sticking out of the old computer towers in my high school library one day when one of my abusers heel kicked it and snapped the thing in half. My dad is an IT guy, I collected all the pieces and showed him in hopes he could work some magic. It hurt him to tell me there was no recovering anything on that drive. It's been ten years, a lot has happened since. And that's kind of what I want to pass on to you. You'll go through/are going through a mouring phase (you are ALLOWED that! Give yourself space for that.) It will make things rusty. You'll start from Square One 2.0. You have a wealth of experience behind you BUT you're not the same writer you are when you first started. And... you're going to slowly work back up. The scary thing to accept? That writing style you found? It might never come back. It's something you can keep in mind, keep as a guide while you work the rust off. But your "new" writing is going to basically run parallel to that. Because you're still going to be growing and maturing. You MIGHT get really close to thar style and realize you kind of jumped ahead, and that's always cool. Just... give yourself time. It will come back. | 0 | 5,986 | 2,000 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0onhyy | j0nwqba | 1,671,345,813 | 1,671,330,645 | 2 | 1 | Have you tried picking up a book maybe? Or even just rewatching a favorite movie or tv show. I find revisiting my favorite stories can rekindle my desire to write since I want to create something just as good. Also, it's okay if you don't want to write anymore. Don't force yourself to do something you don't want to do. | Something similar happened to me when I lost my thumb drive with a major portion of my writings. Roughly five years worth of stories. I was devastated and didn’t write for about four years. I still think about it but I slowly got back into writing. I suggest you keep writing. You can mourn the loss of the past but keep writing anyway. | 1 | 15,168 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nxqlm | j0onhyy | 1,671,331,144 | 1,671,345,813 | 1 | 2 | Sounds like you're feeling some creative burnout, lovely. The best advice is to put your writing aside for a while and let yourself rest. Don't force yourself to turn up when you're running on empty. This took me a long time to learn and I spent years trying to make writing happen for me again. It was only when I truly stopped trying, stopped stressing about it, and rested that it all started flowing again. | Have you tried picking up a book maybe? Or even just rewatching a favorite movie or tv show. I find revisiting my favorite stories can rekindle my desire to write since I want to create something just as good. Also, it's okay if you don't want to write anymore. Don't force yourself to do something you don't want to do. | 0 | 14,669 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0onhyy | j0o3emm | 1,671,345,813 | 1,671,334,008 | 2 | 0 | Have you tried picking up a book maybe? Or even just rewatching a favorite movie or tv show. I find revisiting my favorite stories can rekindle my desire to write since I want to create something just as good. Also, it's okay if you don't want to write anymore. Don't force yourself to do something you don't want to do. | That sucks. Sorry man or woman. I had my belongings stolen when I was traveling in Argentina and lost several unfinished novels that I had been working on, but hadn't backed up because this was long ago and internet storage didn't really exist back then. I was basically bummed from writing again for the rest of the year. However, then I got back into doing NaNoWriMo and my flow returned. If this just happened, it's going to feel insurmountable, but time heals all wounds, even this. It will always suck that this happened to you, but you will write new things if you open yourself back up to your passion. | 1 | 11,805 | 2,000 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0ohnss | j0onhyy | 1,671,341,868 | 1,671,345,813 | 1 | 2 | ❤ | Have you tried picking up a book maybe? Or even just rewatching a favorite movie or tv show. I find revisiting my favorite stories can rekindle my desire to write since I want to create something just as good. Also, it's okay if you don't want to write anymore. Don't force yourself to do something you don't want to do. | 0 | 3,945 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oj44l | j0onhyy | 1,671,342,805 | 1,671,345,813 | 1 | 2 | Always been scared of this. I have my story’s shared with all of my other accounts, and even friends accounts just in case something like that were to ever happen. | Have you tried picking up a book maybe? Or even just rewatching a favorite movie or tv show. I find revisiting my favorite stories can rekindle my desire to write since I want to create something just as good. Also, it's okay if you don't want to write anymore. Don't force yourself to do something you don't want to do. | 0 | 3,008 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nwqba | j0pjcgx | 1,671,330,645 | 1,671,370,404 | 1 | 2 | Something similar happened to me when I lost my thumb drive with a major portion of my writings. Roughly five years worth of stories. I was devastated and didn’t write for about four years. I still think about it but I slowly got back into writing. I suggest you keep writing. You can mourn the loss of the past but keep writing anyway. | First, contact Google Support. Second, take a step away from writing for a month. You’ve lost work you sank almost half your life into. What you’re experiencing is grief. It’s okay to mourn the loss; you don’t have to ignore it. Only once you’ve allowed the pain to mend will you be able to write again. | 0 | 39,759 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nxqlm | j0pjcgx | 1,671,331,144 | 1,671,370,404 | 1 | 2 | Sounds like you're feeling some creative burnout, lovely. The best advice is to put your writing aside for a while and let yourself rest. Don't force yourself to turn up when you're running on empty. This took me a long time to learn and I spent years trying to make writing happen for me again. It was only when I truly stopped trying, stopped stressing about it, and rested that it all started flowing again. | First, contact Google Support. Second, take a step away from writing for a month. You’ve lost work you sank almost half your life into. What you’re experiencing is grief. It’s okay to mourn the loss; you don’t have to ignore it. Only once you’ve allowed the pain to mend will you be able to write again. | 0 | 39,260 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0o3emm | j0pjcgx | 1,671,334,008 | 1,671,370,404 | 0 | 2 | That sucks. Sorry man or woman. I had my belongings stolen when I was traveling in Argentina and lost several unfinished novels that I had been working on, but hadn't backed up because this was long ago and internet storage didn't really exist back then. I was basically bummed from writing again for the rest of the year. However, then I got back into doing NaNoWriMo and my flow returned. If this just happened, it's going to feel insurmountable, but time heals all wounds, even this. It will always suck that this happened to you, but you will write new things if you open yourself back up to your passion. | First, contact Google Support. Second, take a step away from writing for a month. You’ve lost work you sank almost half your life into. What you’re experiencing is grief. It’s okay to mourn the loss; you don’t have to ignore it. Only once you’ve allowed the pain to mend will you be able to write again. | 0 | 36,396 | 2,000 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0pjcgx | j0ohnss | 1,671,370,404 | 1,671,341,868 | 2 | 1 | First, contact Google Support. Second, take a step away from writing for a month. You’ve lost work you sank almost half your life into. What you’re experiencing is grief. It’s okay to mourn the loss; you don’t have to ignore it. Only once you’ve allowed the pain to mend will you be able to write again. | ❤ | 1 | 28,536 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0pjcgx | j0oj44l | 1,671,370,404 | 1,671,342,805 | 2 | 1 | First, contact Google Support. Second, take a step away from writing for a month. You’ve lost work you sank almost half your life into. What you’re experiencing is grief. It’s okay to mourn the loss; you don’t have to ignore it. Only once you’ve allowed the pain to mend will you be able to write again. | Always been scared of this. I have my story’s shared with all of my other accounts, and even friends accounts just in case something like that were to ever happen. | 1 | 27,599 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0otvfq | j0pjcgx | 1,671,350,725 | 1,671,370,404 | 1 | 2 | I'm so sorry to hear this. It must have been such shock to find out you cannot access your stories anymore. There have been some good suggestions already. Contact Google for sure. I want to add: did you participate in any writing contest or did you otherwise share stories with other people? So trying to solve the problem is definitely important. Yet, I think that there is another aspect that needs to be done for you to recover your writing, and that is mourning. You have experienced a great loss, and it takes time to get over this. Give yourself a break. Be kind to yourself. You might want to start with some journaling about what happened. Or journal about what you experience in this moment: what do you feel, and how welcome are those feelings for you? Take care! | First, contact Google Support. Second, take a step away from writing for a month. You’ve lost work you sank almost half your life into. What you’re experiencing is grief. It’s okay to mourn the loss; you don’t have to ignore it. Only once you’ve allowed the pain to mend will you be able to write again. | 0 | 19,679 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0oz8dv | j0pjcgx | 1,671,355,076 | 1,671,370,404 | 1 | 2 | The smart device can retype so as avoid dumb word of no importance ???plagiarism ??? | First, contact Google Support. Second, take a step away from writing for a month. You’ve lost work you sank almost half your life into. What you’re experiencing is grief. It’s okay to mourn the loss; you don’t have to ignore it. Only once you’ve allowed the pain to mend will you be able to write again. | 0 | 15,328 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0pjcgx | j0p0a4e | 1,671,370,404 | 1,671,355,958 | 2 | 1 | First, contact Google Support. Second, take a step away from writing for a month. You’ve lost work you sank almost half your life into. What you’re experiencing is grief. It’s okay to mourn the loss; you don’t have to ignore it. Only once you’ve allowed the pain to mend will you be able to write again. | I think you can trust writing in the cloud in future, if you don't repeat the same mistake twice. Freak accidents happen, but this is a good time as any to consult the muse of beginnings. The poet Gregory David Roberts wrote in novel Shantaram from jail, and a blood soaked finished manuscript was taken away by guards, and so he had to write the whole thing again. It's a thousand page critically acclaimed novel now with a brand new tv show. His novel became better for it. Maybe it's an opportunity? I hope you are not too old to start over. Dwelling does not seem like the right course of action. We are all just making it up as we go along. Maybe writing your stories that you know again now that you know the stories and your characters could make them even better. You may find some silver linings. | 1 | 14,446 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0pjcgx | j0p64n7 | 1,671,370,404 | 1,671,360,887 | 2 | 1 | First, contact Google Support. Second, take a step away from writing for a month. You’ve lost work you sank almost half your life into. What you’re experiencing is grief. It’s okay to mourn the loss; you don’t have to ignore it. Only once you’ve allowed the pain to mend will you be able to write again. | Try fan fiction. What happened to me wasn’t nearly as bad but I lost access to an account I had for years. I became very distraught so I started with my old default of writing light and easy fan fictions and it got me writing nearly every day again. Eventually I got my account back by some miracle | 1 | 9,517 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0p6dn7 | j0pjcgx | 1,671,361,088 | 1,671,370,404 | 1 | 2 | Friendly reminder to MAKE LOCAL COPIES!! I find it baffling how the younger generation blindly trusts in online services to keep their work safe, just because Google is too big to fail and internet access is everywhere today. Doesn't matter. You still need to make local copies on your own hard drives. Preferably more than one hard drive. A local copy will be there for as long as the drive lives. You don't need a password to access it, you don't even need internet. Local copies are always there for you. Things stored on a cloud seem safe, until you lose access for some reason, and then they're not. Make local copies. Don't trust a big web company to keep your most precious files safe. | First, contact Google Support. Second, take a step away from writing for a month. You’ve lost work you sank almost half your life into. What you’re experiencing is grief. It’s okay to mourn the loss; you don’t have to ignore it. Only once you’ve allowed the pain to mend will you be able to write again. | 0 | 9,316 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0pjcgx | j0pfiji | 1,671,370,404 | 1,671,368,102 | 2 | 1 | First, contact Google Support. Second, take a step away from writing for a month. You’ve lost work you sank almost half your life into. What you’re experiencing is grief. It’s okay to mourn the loss; you don’t have to ignore it. Only once you’ve allowed the pain to mend will you be able to write again. | This happened to Hemingway. He lost at least a novel and lots of short stories. His ex-wife/gf at the time was supposed to mail them and somehow lost them all. They were the only physical copies. He knew he couldn’t rewrite them the same exact way so, despite being gutted, he accepted the loss and continued writing new works. | 1 | 2,302 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0pfnbn | j0pjcgx | 1,671,368,191 | 1,671,370,404 | 1 | 2 | In case you cant recover. Your desire will come back when its the right. Meanwhile, read the short stoty "last mohican" by Bernard Malamud, if you haven't already. | First, contact Google Support. Second, take a step away from writing for a month. You’ve lost work you sank almost half your life into. What you’re experiencing is grief. It’s okay to mourn the loss; you don’t have to ignore it. Only once you’ve allowed the pain to mend will you be able to write again. | 0 | 2,213 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0pkn1w | j0nwqba | 1,671,371,152 | 1,671,330,645 | 2 | 1 | Yes, this sucks, but you're looking at it the wrong way. First of all, no story you wrote between the ages of 13 and 18 was good. I'm sorry, but this is probably true. Second, writing is rewriting. Again, none of the stories you wrote were going to get published in that state. All you did was write the first drafts to them. So now you have the idea, know what worked and didn't work, and can get to the rewrites. The passion wouldn't just disappear like the files did at the click of a button. You are probably feeling sorry for yourself and bummed by what happened -- completely understandable. But if you reframe your thinking, you'll get back into it. | Something similar happened to me when I lost my thumb drive with a major portion of my writings. Roughly five years worth of stories. I was devastated and didn’t write for about four years. I still think about it but I slowly got back into writing. I suggest you keep writing. You can mourn the loss of the past but keep writing anyway. | 1 | 40,507 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0nxqlm | j0pkn1w | 1,671,331,144 | 1,671,371,152 | 1 | 2 | Sounds like you're feeling some creative burnout, lovely. The best advice is to put your writing aside for a while and let yourself rest. Don't force yourself to turn up when you're running on empty. This took me a long time to learn and I spent years trying to make writing happen for me again. It was only when I truly stopped trying, stopped stressing about it, and rested that it all started flowing again. | Yes, this sucks, but you're looking at it the wrong way. First of all, no story you wrote between the ages of 13 and 18 was good. I'm sorry, but this is probably true. Second, writing is rewriting. Again, none of the stories you wrote were going to get published in that state. All you did was write the first drafts to them. So now you have the idea, know what worked and didn't work, and can get to the rewrites. The passion wouldn't just disappear like the files did at the click of a button. You are probably feeling sorry for yourself and bummed by what happened -- completely understandable. But if you reframe your thinking, you'll get back into it. | 0 | 40,008 | 2 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0o3emm | j0pkn1w | 1,671,334,008 | 1,671,371,152 | 0 | 2 | That sucks. Sorry man or woman. I had my belongings stolen when I was traveling in Argentina and lost several unfinished novels that I had been working on, but hadn't backed up because this was long ago and internet storage didn't really exist back then. I was basically bummed from writing again for the rest of the year. However, then I got back into doing NaNoWriMo and my flow returned. If this just happened, it's going to feel insurmountable, but time heals all wounds, even this. It will always suck that this happened to you, but you will write new things if you open yourself back up to your passion. | Yes, this sucks, but you're looking at it the wrong way. First of all, no story you wrote between the ages of 13 and 18 was good. I'm sorry, but this is probably true. Second, writing is rewriting. Again, none of the stories you wrote were going to get published in that state. All you did was write the first drafts to them. So now you have the idea, know what worked and didn't work, and can get to the rewrites. The passion wouldn't just disappear like the files did at the click of a button. You are probably feeling sorry for yourself and bummed by what happened -- completely understandable. But if you reframe your thinking, you'll get back into it. | 0 | 37,144 | 2,000 | ||
zohhnb | writing_train | 0.95 | Lost seven years worth of writing and now struggling to write again Hi. I lost seven years worth of writing because I never attached a phone number or email to my gmail account and I lost the password. There's nothing I can do to regain access to the account so I lost all the stories I had written since I was 13; I think I've come to terms with this. I'm just trying to write again but the passion is completely gone. I listen to music, written in the same spots I used to, tried different spots, I've tried writing online and on paper. Nothing works. My passion has been completely snuffed out, I used to write in my head as I shopped or went about my day, now it's just silence. I don't even imagine scenarios anymore. I wish I could say it was unbearable but I don't even feel the desire to write again so it doesn't even bother me. The other day I forced myself to write 500ish words, it's some of the worst writing I've ever created and it pains me to even look at, knowing that before I lost my account I had finally found the writing style I loved. That place feels so distant now and I don't think I can ever get back to it, but I'd like to. Has anyone been in this position before? Any advice to get back into writing? (btw you guys should back up your writing and secure your accounts so you don't make the same mistake I did) | j0ohnss | j0pkn1w | 1,671,341,868 | 1,671,371,152 | 1 | 2 | ❤ | Yes, this sucks, but you're looking at it the wrong way. First of all, no story you wrote between the ages of 13 and 18 was good. I'm sorry, but this is probably true. Second, writing is rewriting. Again, none of the stories you wrote were going to get published in that state. All you did was write the first drafts to them. So now you have the idea, know what worked and didn't work, and can get to the rewrites. The passion wouldn't just disappear like the files did at the click of a button. You are probably feeling sorry for yourself and bummed by what happened -- completely understandable. But if you reframe your thinking, you'll get back into it. | 0 | 29,284 | 2 |
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