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wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il71idp | il79nyo | 1,661,091,760 | 1,661,095,273 | 1 | 2 | …what are you asking? | I almost never get any feedback, especially no good one on my writing. This makes me care less about what other people might like, since they probably ignore it anyway ;) And when I write something, I really like, also more people will probably like it. You should consider, you don't really know, what other people would like. You can only be sure about what you like, and if you put a lot of effort into something, other people are more likely to like it, too. | 0 | 3,513 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il771xn | il79nyo | 1,661,094,155 | 1,661,095,273 | 1 | 2 | For me, I was,always writing for my gf approval and her entertainment. She inspired me write better and better. But that was a long time ago and my wife could care less that I write, let alone inspire me to write. Nowadays I write maybe 10k words and then give up because only I care and I can’t get any feedback from her. | I almost never get any feedback, especially no good one on my writing. This makes me care less about what other people might like, since they probably ignore it anyway ;) And when I write something, I really like, also more people will probably like it. You should consider, you don't really know, what other people would like. You can only be sure about what you like, and if you put a lot of effort into something, other people are more likely to like it, too. | 0 | 1,118 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il7cwvo | il71idp | 1,661,096,647 | 1,661,091,760 | 2 | 1 | Devote yourself to the work. You're building something with purpose and meaning and it starts with you. Take pride in it, track your progress, evaluate your own work for weakness, try new things. Find people in your life genuinely interested in reading your material every once in awhile. Focus on these things. If you find you want to turn your work into a saleable product, you'll still be well positioned to do so. But don't make it your central goal unless you're prepared to treat it as a job and you're prepared to accept you likely will not be the next best selling author. Not in a negative way either; who knows how many great artists were lost to obscurity. Just accept that the work is done first and that's where your focus should be. Write something you feel proud of even if the wide world will never see it. | …what are you asking? | 1 | 4,887 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il7cwvo | il771xn | 1,661,096,647 | 1,661,094,155 | 2 | 1 | Devote yourself to the work. You're building something with purpose and meaning and it starts with you. Take pride in it, track your progress, evaluate your own work for weakness, try new things. Find people in your life genuinely interested in reading your material every once in awhile. Focus on these things. If you find you want to turn your work into a saleable product, you'll still be well positioned to do so. But don't make it your central goal unless you're prepared to treat it as a job and you're prepared to accept you likely will not be the next best selling author. Not in a negative way either; who knows how many great artists were lost to obscurity. Just accept that the work is done first and that's where your focus should be. Write something you feel proud of even if the wide world will never see it. | For me, I was,always writing for my gf approval and her entertainment. She inspired me write better and better. But that was a long time ago and my wife could care less that I write, let alone inspire me to write. Nowadays I write maybe 10k words and then give up because only I care and I can’t get any feedback from her. | 1 | 2,492 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il71idp | il7i8g9 | 1,661,091,760 | 1,661,098,823 | 1 | 2 | …what are you asking? | \*\*\*My post is going to be coming rom the angle of writing music\*\*\* For me, I've always read through poems and books along with listening to music. One thing that I've learnt to internalize with my writing style is to create something I'd want to be immersed into. I would want to create music that I'd want to listen to on repeat, read lyric sheets that touched my heart, or stories that sucked me in. With the few tunes I did release, I've never went in with the intent of them "getting me gigs selling out stadium tours." I want to showcase how my mind works with creating and show something that I'd want to listen to on repeat. I'm lucky enough to have a few people in my life who are honest about my art with feedback. I've had people in the local music scene as well as online tell me how much they've enjoyed my music, and "would want to listen to them again. | 0 | 7,063 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il7i8g9 | il771xn | 1,661,098,823 | 1,661,094,155 | 2 | 1 | \*\*\*My post is going to be coming rom the angle of writing music\*\*\* For me, I've always read through poems and books along with listening to music. One thing that I've learnt to internalize with my writing style is to create something I'd want to be immersed into. I would want to create music that I'd want to listen to on repeat, read lyric sheets that touched my heart, or stories that sucked me in. With the few tunes I did release, I've never went in with the intent of them "getting me gigs selling out stadium tours." I want to showcase how my mind works with creating and show something that I'd want to listen to on repeat. I'm lucky enough to have a few people in my life who are honest about my art with feedback. I've had people in the local music scene as well as online tell me how much they've enjoyed my music, and "would want to listen to them again. | For me, I was,always writing for my gf approval and her entertainment. She inspired me write better and better. But that was a long time ago and my wife could care less that I write, let alone inspire me to write. Nowadays I write maybe 10k words and then give up because only I care and I can’t get any feedback from her. | 1 | 4,668 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il7t66h | il71idp | 1,661,103,260 | 1,661,091,760 | 2 | 1 | How much recognition have you gotten hitherto? 😅 | …what are you asking? | 1 | 11,500 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il771xn | il7t66h | 1,661,094,155 | 1,661,103,260 | 1 | 2 | For me, I was,always writing for my gf approval and her entertainment. She inspired me write better and better. But that was a long time ago and my wife could care less that I write, let alone inspire me to write. Nowadays I write maybe 10k words and then give up because only I care and I can’t get any feedback from her. | How much recognition have you gotten hitherto? 😅 | 0 | 9,105 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il71idp | il83j5o | 1,661,091,760 | 1,661,107,553 | 1 | 2 | …what are you asking? | I was milling the same story around in My head for years. Never wrote, not even as a hobby. Decided to start on jan 2nd this year, been writing a chapter almost every day since then. Signed a publishers contract 2 days ago for the first book of the story. If its a story you want tontell, simply for the sake of telling, go for it. Its what i did | 0 | 15,793 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il771xn | il83j5o | 1,661,094,155 | 1,661,107,553 | 1 | 2 | For me, I was,always writing for my gf approval and her entertainment. She inspired me write better and better. But that was a long time ago and my wife could care less that I write, let alone inspire me to write. Nowadays I write maybe 10k words and then give up because only I care and I can’t get any feedback from her. | I was milling the same story around in My head for years. Never wrote, not even as a hobby. Decided to start on jan 2nd this year, been writing a chapter almost every day since then. Signed a publishers contract 2 days ago for the first book of the story. If its a story you want tontell, simply for the sake of telling, go for it. Its what i did | 0 | 13,398 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il8r72k | il71idp | 1,661,117,435 | 1,661,091,760 | 2 | 1 | Ian Fleming wrote James Bond to work out fantasies. That was all I needed to hear. | …what are you asking? | 1 | 25,675 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il771xn | il8r72k | 1,661,094,155 | 1,661,117,435 | 1 | 2 | For me, I was,always writing for my gf approval and her entertainment. She inspired me write better and better. But that was a long time ago and my wife could care less that I write, let alone inspire me to write. Nowadays I write maybe 10k words and then give up because only I care and I can’t get any feedback from her. | Ian Fleming wrote James Bond to work out fantasies. That was all I needed to hear. | 0 | 23,280 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il71idp | il8u8nv | 1,661,091,760 | 1,661,118,727 | 1 | 2 | …what are you asking? | Keep writing weird shit that resonates with you and only you. The kind of weird shit that you know you probably will never let another living soul see, let alone put out in the market. | 0 | 26,967 | 2 | ||
wtwjn7 | writing_train | 0.92 | How to stop writing for recognition and more for yourself? I feel like I’ve been writing solely because I want fame, fortune ect. and I’m not putting my soul into it. I’ve always enjoyed writing and English as a subject because I was always naturally good at it. How do I start writing for me instead of the off chance that the next piece of cheap prose I write ends up making me an equivalent to Shakespeare even though what I write is absolute dogshit (if you can, refrain from pitiful remarks like oh don’t be so hard on yourself or we all start somewhere)? | il771xn | il8u8nv | 1,661,094,155 | 1,661,118,727 | 1 | 2 | For me, I was,always writing for my gf approval and her entertainment. She inspired me write better and better. But that was a long time ago and my wife could care less that I write, let alone inspire me to write. Nowadays I write maybe 10k words and then give up because only I care and I can’t get any feedback from her. | Keep writing weird shit that resonates with you and only you. The kind of weird shit that you know you probably will never let another living soul see, let alone put out in the market. | 0 | 24,572 | 2 | ||
wp361o | writing_train | 0.75 | I write every waking moment and I don't know how to stop myself We often get tips on how to make writing a habit. Well, I took this to the next level. I've always had what I call manic episodes (they're not real manic episodes in the clinical sense, mind you) during which I compulsively do something. Since January 2022, I've been having a manic episode for my writing. Now, I can't stop myself. I wake up at 6 am, I write until the time I have to clock in at work, then I write during my lunch break, and again after I'm done working until I have to get ready to go to bed around 9:30-ish. I write 7 days a week. If I don't spend every waking moment writing, I have this tremendous sense of guilt, as if my brain is telling me that if I don't work on my book constantly, I don't deserve to be published. I also have this irrational fear that if I stop writing for more than a day, my momentum will be lost forever and I will start writing like sh\*t. I've tried telling myself that resting was necessary for the writing process, but I still can't get rid of the sense of guilt. I've tried keeping busy with other things, but again, the guilt creeps up... Help on how to stop being this compulsive? | ikeiytd | ikelupe | 1,660,582,328 | 1,660,583,448 | 5 | 30 | As long as you're not neglecting your job or the people in your life, there's not really a problem, but if you want out of it I can see two ways. Either you make a pledge not to write at all for a set period of time, and just suffer through the guilt until it goes away, or you relax and enjoy what you're doing. It's a shame to waste something you're so into by feeling guilty about it. You'll come out of it sooner or later, sooner if you take it easy and stop worrying about it. | I have been there. I recommend therapy. Helped me realize that these things are cyclical. The fear that if I stop it will never come back is real, but it's an illusion. There are always more words. Accept it. Embrace it. Because your manic episode will break eventually and you will struggle to squeeze two words onto the page without feeling like a fraud, but that too will pass. But seriously. Therapy. I have OCPD, which is kind of like OCD lite (but not really, but your therapist will explain the difference). I didn't seek help for it because it wasn't crippling, but then it became crippling and I wished I had talked to somebody sooner, before my life was imploding around me. Your experience sounds really familiar. A therapist can help you embrace and manage those episodes (because they are quite thrilling!) as well as the inevitable depression that follows when you can't follow through on your compulsive thoughts for some reason, whether it's just exhaustion or life getting in the way. | 0 | 1,120 | 6 | ||
wp361o | writing_train | 0.75 | I write every waking moment and I don't know how to stop myself We often get tips on how to make writing a habit. Well, I took this to the next level. I've always had what I call manic episodes (they're not real manic episodes in the clinical sense, mind you) during which I compulsively do something. Since January 2022, I've been having a manic episode for my writing. Now, I can't stop myself. I wake up at 6 am, I write until the time I have to clock in at work, then I write during my lunch break, and again after I'm done working until I have to get ready to go to bed around 9:30-ish. I write 7 days a week. If I don't spend every waking moment writing, I have this tremendous sense of guilt, as if my brain is telling me that if I don't work on my book constantly, I don't deserve to be published. I also have this irrational fear that if I stop writing for more than a day, my momentum will be lost forever and I will start writing like sh\*t. I've tried telling myself that resting was necessary for the writing process, but I still can't get rid of the sense of guilt. I've tried keeping busy with other things, but again, the guilt creeps up... Help on how to stop being this compulsive? | ikhx9r6 | ikezp8c | 1,660,641,310 | 1,660,588,785 | 3 | 2 | The problems with this are 2: are you neglecting your job? Do you actually enjoy writing so much you can't stop, or is it 90% that you feel compelled to do it If the answer is yes to any if the questions you'll probably want to see a doctor. Therapy isn't just for "actual" medical conditions! You probably don't have ocd or proper maniac episodes, but therapy is meant to help through every psychological event that gives you an hard time! | It sounds like you may be dealing with something like hypergraphia. If it's causing you distress, I would definitely treat it like any other symptom of mania and seek help from a professional. Some may view obsessive writing or creating as romantic, but when it is taking over your life in an unproductive, distressing way, it's time to seek intervention and external support of some kind. I hope you feel better soon! I have bipolar, so I know how scary it can be. | 1 | 52,525 | 1.5 | ||
wp361o | writing_train | 0.75 | I write every waking moment and I don't know how to stop myself We often get tips on how to make writing a habit. Well, I took this to the next level. I've always had what I call manic episodes (they're not real manic episodes in the clinical sense, mind you) during which I compulsively do something. Since January 2022, I've been having a manic episode for my writing. Now, I can't stop myself. I wake up at 6 am, I write until the time I have to clock in at work, then I write during my lunch break, and again after I'm done working until I have to get ready to go to bed around 9:30-ish. I write 7 days a week. If I don't spend every waking moment writing, I have this tremendous sense of guilt, as if my brain is telling me that if I don't work on my book constantly, I don't deserve to be published. I also have this irrational fear that if I stop writing for more than a day, my momentum will be lost forever and I will start writing like sh\*t. I've tried telling myself that resting was necessary for the writing process, but I still can't get rid of the sense of guilt. I've tried keeping busy with other things, but again, the guilt creeps up... Help on how to stop being this compulsive? | ikhx9r6 | ikeyerv | 1,660,641,310 | 1,660,588,286 | 3 | 2 | The problems with this are 2: are you neglecting your job? Do you actually enjoy writing so much you can't stop, or is it 90% that you feel compelled to do it If the answer is yes to any if the questions you'll probably want to see a doctor. Therapy isn't just for "actual" medical conditions! You probably don't have ocd or proper maniac episodes, but therapy is meant to help through every psychological event that gives you an hard time! | Do you need to stop yourself? If you find it to be an issue go ahead, but I think that it's a much better use of your free time than watching TV or drinking beer. I guess if you feel guilty about stopping it can be an issue but again, if you want to be productive the entire day there's nothing necessarily wrong with that as long as it makes you feel fine. Sometimes "taking it easy" is really the worst cure and is not for everyone. | 1 | 53,024 | 1.5 | ||
wp361o | writing_train | 0.75 | I write every waking moment and I don't know how to stop myself We often get tips on how to make writing a habit. Well, I took this to the next level. I've always had what I call manic episodes (they're not real manic episodes in the clinical sense, mind you) during which I compulsively do something. Since January 2022, I've been having a manic episode for my writing. Now, I can't stop myself. I wake up at 6 am, I write until the time I have to clock in at work, then I write during my lunch break, and again after I'm done working until I have to get ready to go to bed around 9:30-ish. I write 7 days a week. If I don't spend every waking moment writing, I have this tremendous sense of guilt, as if my brain is telling me that if I don't work on my book constantly, I don't deserve to be published. I also have this irrational fear that if I stop writing for more than a day, my momentum will be lost forever and I will start writing like sh\*t. I've tried telling myself that resting was necessary for the writing process, but I still can't get rid of the sense of guilt. I've tried keeping busy with other things, but again, the guilt creeps up... Help on how to stop being this compulsive? | ikhx9r6 | ikfk7tf | 1,660,641,310 | 1,660,596,599 | 3 | 1 | The problems with this are 2: are you neglecting your job? Do you actually enjoy writing so much you can't stop, or is it 90% that you feel compelled to do it If the answer is yes to any if the questions you'll probably want to see a doctor. Therapy isn't just for "actual" medical conditions! You probably don't have ocd or proper maniac episodes, but therapy is meant to help through every psychological event that gives you an hard time! | Me too | 1 | 44,711 | 3 | ||
wp361o | writing_train | 0.75 | I write every waking moment and I don't know how to stop myself We often get tips on how to make writing a habit. Well, I took this to the next level. I've always had what I call manic episodes (they're not real manic episodes in the clinical sense, mind you) during which I compulsively do something. Since January 2022, I've been having a manic episode for my writing. Now, I can't stop myself. I wake up at 6 am, I write until the time I have to clock in at work, then I write during my lunch break, and again after I'm done working until I have to get ready to go to bed around 9:30-ish. I write 7 days a week. If I don't spend every waking moment writing, I have this tremendous sense of guilt, as if my brain is telling me that if I don't work on my book constantly, I don't deserve to be published. I also have this irrational fear that if I stop writing for more than a day, my momentum will be lost forever and I will start writing like sh\*t. I've tried telling myself that resting was necessary for the writing process, but I still can't get rid of the sense of guilt. I've tried keeping busy with other things, but again, the guilt creeps up... Help on how to stop being this compulsive? | ikhx9r6 | ikfu7s8 | 1,660,641,310 | 1,660,600,541 | 3 | 1 | The problems with this are 2: are you neglecting your job? Do you actually enjoy writing so much you can't stop, or is it 90% that you feel compelled to do it If the answer is yes to any if the questions you'll probably want to see a doctor. Therapy isn't just for "actual" medical conditions! You probably don't have ocd or proper maniac episodes, but therapy is meant to help through every psychological event that gives you an hard time! | When do you cook or clean? | 1 | 40,769 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7fn60 | ix7bsi7 | 1,669,021,776 | 1,669,018,290 | 31 | 30 | You might try a dictation path. There are apps and programs. Also sit down and write a rant - sometimes that can get words flowing. Best of luck - this sounds so very hard | Serious question: Have you talked to your doctor about this? Especially if it's impacting both your private life and your ability to do your job. A lot of people coming through here wanting writing advice when it seems like what they really need are some meds for their ADD/ADHD/ASD. | 1 | 3,486 | 1.033333 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7cq1e | ix7fn60 | 1,669,019,111 | 1,669,021,776 | 7 | 31 | op, i think you should get this checked out with a doctor too, just to be sure. when i have these bouts come to me, it's just a lot of mental pain i have to push through and force myself to not scratch it out. i usually try to write with an ink pen, so it's just generally more difficult to scratch what I've written. then i give myself a goal: just one sentence today, or just one minute of one sentence, without scratching what i have written—if i don't like what i wrote, i will have to live with it. and i try to say what im writing aloud, even if it's silly as "im saying this aloud" while im writing those exact words. for me, indulging as many senses as possible has been the key. i completely understand your immense frustration, I've felt it too, and feel it from time to time. I'm currently in a similar state, less severely so though. it took me a lot of practice and a lot of patience with myself to get to a more comfortable stage with this problem. i hope you find a solution soon ;; and please please just once go to your doctor and talk about this problem, so you can rule out as many serious issues as you can. | You might try a dictation path. There are apps and programs. Also sit down and write a rant - sometimes that can get words flowing. Best of luck - this sounds so very hard | 0 | 2,665 | 4.428571 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7kfyx | ix7cq1e | 1,669,026,229 | 1,669,019,111 | 19 | 7 | I figure “write drunk, edit sober” captures the solution to this common struggle. Lower your inhibitions and let the creative juices flow, then later go back and clean it up. Sounds like you’re trying to combine those two opposing processes into one step. | op, i think you should get this checked out with a doctor too, just to be sure. when i have these bouts come to me, it's just a lot of mental pain i have to push through and force myself to not scratch it out. i usually try to write with an ink pen, so it's just generally more difficult to scratch what I've written. then i give myself a goal: just one sentence today, or just one minute of one sentence, without scratching what i have written—if i don't like what i wrote, i will have to live with it. and i try to say what im writing aloud, even if it's silly as "im saying this aloud" while im writing those exact words. for me, indulging as many senses as possible has been the key. i completely understand your immense frustration, I've felt it too, and feel it from time to time. I'm currently in a similar state, less severely so though. it took me a lot of practice and a lot of patience with myself to get to a more comfortable stage with this problem. i hope you find a solution soon ;; and please please just once go to your doctor and talk about this problem, so you can rule out as many serious issues as you can. | 1 | 7,118 | 2.714286 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7ufbu | ix8ey0b | 1,669,034,004 | 1,669,044,403 | 5 | 7 | Can you plan a story? It doesn't have to be fun to do, just can you write down a bullet list of "what happens"? If it's hard, you can practice on others' texts: take someone's short story and write down the events, one by one. Can you do it? If you get a plan, writing scenes would become easier. Make plans inside plans: let's say you've written "a hero is at home, and a visitor comes". What's the weather outside (write it down in your plan)? What's the time of the day? Who is the visitor? Who is the hero? What does the hero do? Write all of this down as a bullet list too. Sooner or later you'll get a very detailed outline, and you'll be able to write the sentences: "It was a rainy evening, the wind was harsh. Agatha was sitting in her favourite armchair by the fire and reading when she heard a knock at the back door". | >This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. You're making writing way more high-stakes than it needs to be. It's fine if you don't do something perfectly. The world will not end. Just do it "good enough" and move on. And the nice thing about writing is that you can do it badly on a first draft, then go back and polish it up and fix the things you don't like when you revise. Nobody writes anything perfectly on the first pass. | 0 | 10,399 | 1.4 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8ey0b | ix7o2kx | 1,669,044,403 | 1,669,029,375 | 7 | 4 | >This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. You're making writing way more high-stakes than it needs to be. It's fine if you don't do something perfectly. The world will not end. Just do it "good enough" and move on. And the nice thing about writing is that you can do it badly on a first draft, then go back and polish it up and fix the things you don't like when you revise. Nobody writes anything perfectly on the first pass. | First, no “idea” can ever be completely summed up in one sentence. Enlist the aid of a friend and do free-association. Tell them what you are writing - fiction, school, business - have them throw bullet points, and you just write the one or two words that first come to mind onto notecards. Don’t fall into the trap of making it perfect in the first draft. It never happens and you can easily hit executive function disregulation paralyzation. Someone mentioned dictation software, and I am doing my research into such software along with a wireless vox lapel mike. I find myself, when wanting to write about a question or story plot, orating my thoughts. Capturing those thoughts by means other than having to seek out pen and paper or keyboard and doc file I think would greatly benefit my productivity. I also am “gifted”/suffer from ADHD, but have not done any writing while on meds, so it is hard for me to advise on your current predicament. I am currently working on a series of novels (for the last twenty years smh) and find that working on it to be very mood-oriented. Sometimes, the mood is interrupted by “writer’s block” boredom, especially when I am expanding upon a bullet point scene or idea. I love writing new content, but the mechanical drudgery of actually writing gets boring, and I have to walk away. Sometimes the mood is broken by nEeDiNg ThE eXaCtLy RiGhT wOrD and I cannot make myself compose any more until I find it. This is especially troubling since I am currently learning Russian language and one of my characters is Russian and I am wanting Her to be as authentic as possible and my inner OCD critic shuts the entire process down because ReAsOnS. And sometimes the process gets interrupted by the subject becoming too real-world emotionally overwhelming (the reason behind my current hiatus.) Nothing to be done about it until I come to grips with those emotions. Writing, even when done for pleasure, can quickly become a job/chore that no ADHDer really enjoys. The trick is to find little things to help you view writing not as one huge endeavor but as a series of fun-sized bites (like Halloween candy bars.) | 1 | 15,028 | 1.75 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix800lb | ix8ey0b | 1,669,037,347 | 1,669,044,403 | 5 | 7 | Firstly, go get tested for ADHD. What you're describing isn't writer's block, it's having a hyperactive brain that can't focus. Secondly, consider the why of your writing, the intention. A year end report at work should be short and concise, focused on your achievements and areas of improvement for next year; not your intentions and missed opportunities, nor a place to "flex your prose muscles". | >This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. You're making writing way more high-stakes than it needs to be. It's fine if you don't do something perfectly. The world will not end. Just do it "good enough" and move on. And the nice thing about writing is that you can do it badly on a first draft, then go back and polish it up and fix the things you don't like when you revise. Nobody writes anything perfectly on the first pass. | 0 | 7,056 | 1.4 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7no43 | ix8ey0b | 1,669,029,037 | 1,669,044,403 | 3 | 7 | I struggled with something similar, but for me it was verbal communication rather than writing, I always worry that the message I'm trying to send is expressed in a way it will be interpreted the way I want it to be, so I always ended up over explaining everything, took me some years to actually start getting better at it, but the best advice I can give you is, try it all the ways. I try to think of all the ways I can form a sentence and then choose the one that "sounds" the most like what I'm actually trying to say, right now it takes me just a couple of seconds, but sometimes I still ask people to wait while I find the right words. Maybe you can write all the ways you can express your idea and then choose the one that suits you the best. The more you do it, the less you'll need it, but you have to start somewhere. Also try therapy, there might be some underlying issues that make you so undecisive whenever you are writing. | >This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. You're making writing way more high-stakes than it needs to be. It's fine if you don't do something perfectly. The world will not end. Just do it "good enough" and move on. And the nice thing about writing is that you can do it badly on a first draft, then go back and polish it up and fix the things you don't like when you revise. Nobody writes anything perfectly on the first pass. | 0 | 15,366 | 2.333333 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7v264 | ix8ey0b | 1,669,034,417 | 1,669,044,403 | 3 | 7 | You might benefit from dictating to a speech to text app, which would allow you to approach writing from a new angle. Then revise after completing the scene. And as a tip, I find when I freeze in articulating something I try to phrase is it in the simplest way possible and will address it later. I have used that method for times when the right words just won't come. | >This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. You're making writing way more high-stakes than it needs to be. It's fine if you don't do something perfectly. The world will not end. Just do it "good enough" and move on. And the nice thing about writing is that you can do it badly on a first draft, then go back and polish it up and fix the things you don't like when you revise. Nobody writes anything perfectly on the first pass. | 0 | 9,986 | 2.333333 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8ey0b | ix86acg | 1,669,044,403 | 1,669,040,520 | 7 | 2 | >This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. You're making writing way more high-stakes than it needs to be. It's fine if you don't do something perfectly. The world will not end. Just do it "good enough" and move on. And the nice thing about writing is that you can do it badly on a first draft, then go back and polish it up and fix the things you don't like when you revise. Nobody writes anything perfectly on the first pass. | It’s all about focusing on the main goal and planning out step by step what you’re going to do. Plotters and even plansters don’t have this problem as badly as pansters do. If you’re a plotter or planster, you’ll know what to do. But if you fancy yourself as a panster, GOOD LUCK — YOU’LL NEED IT! | 1 | 3,883 | 3.5 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8ey0b | ix7xjr7 | 1,669,044,403 | 1,669,035,959 | 7 | 1 | >This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. You're making writing way more high-stakes than it needs to be. It's fine if you don't do something perfectly. The world will not end. Just do it "good enough" and move on. And the nice thing about writing is that you can do it badly on a first draft, then go back and polish it up and fix the things you don't like when you revise. Nobody writes anything perfectly on the first pass. | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | 1 | 8,444 | 7 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8ey0b | ix85wve | 1,669,044,403 | 1,669,040,343 | 7 | 1 | >This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. You're making writing way more high-stakes than it needs to be. It's fine if you don't do something perfectly. The world will not end. Just do it "good enough" and move on. And the nice thing about writing is that you can do it badly on a first draft, then go back and polish it up and fix the things you don't like when you revise. Nobody writes anything perfectly on the first pass. | I'll be honest: the sheer verbosity of this text makes it seem like a copypasta. Add the fact that it's well formatted and clearly written and I really don't get the feeling that this was written by someone struggling to write. It's a little strange. Are you able to edit just fine? Anyways, maybe try copywork. Literally take some book and copy word for word. Maybe that will help? | 1 | 4,060 | 7 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7o2kx | ix7ufbu | 1,669,029,375 | 1,669,034,004 | 4 | 5 | First, no “idea” can ever be completely summed up in one sentence. Enlist the aid of a friend and do free-association. Tell them what you are writing - fiction, school, business - have them throw bullet points, and you just write the one or two words that first come to mind onto notecards. Don’t fall into the trap of making it perfect in the first draft. It never happens and you can easily hit executive function disregulation paralyzation. Someone mentioned dictation software, and I am doing my research into such software along with a wireless vox lapel mike. I find myself, when wanting to write about a question or story plot, orating my thoughts. Capturing those thoughts by means other than having to seek out pen and paper or keyboard and doc file I think would greatly benefit my productivity. I also am “gifted”/suffer from ADHD, but have not done any writing while on meds, so it is hard for me to advise on your current predicament. I am currently working on a series of novels (for the last twenty years smh) and find that working on it to be very mood-oriented. Sometimes, the mood is interrupted by “writer’s block” boredom, especially when I am expanding upon a bullet point scene or idea. I love writing new content, but the mechanical drudgery of actually writing gets boring, and I have to walk away. Sometimes the mood is broken by nEeDiNg ThE eXaCtLy RiGhT wOrD and I cannot make myself compose any more until I find it. This is especially troubling since I am currently learning Russian language and one of my characters is Russian and I am wanting Her to be as authentic as possible and my inner OCD critic shuts the entire process down because ReAsOnS. And sometimes the process gets interrupted by the subject becoming too real-world emotionally overwhelming (the reason behind my current hiatus.) Nothing to be done about it until I come to grips with those emotions. Writing, even when done for pleasure, can quickly become a job/chore that no ADHDer really enjoys. The trick is to find little things to help you view writing not as one huge endeavor but as a series of fun-sized bites (like Halloween candy bars.) | Can you plan a story? It doesn't have to be fun to do, just can you write down a bullet list of "what happens"? If it's hard, you can practice on others' texts: take someone's short story and write down the events, one by one. Can you do it? If you get a plan, writing scenes would become easier. Make plans inside plans: let's say you've written "a hero is at home, and a visitor comes". What's the weather outside (write it down in your plan)? What's the time of the day? Who is the visitor? Who is the hero? What does the hero do? Write all of this down as a bullet list too. Sooner or later you'll get a very detailed outline, and you'll be able to write the sentences: "It was a rainy evening, the wind was harsh. Agatha was sitting in her favourite armchair by the fire and reading when she heard a knock at the back door". | 0 | 4,629 | 1.25 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7no43 | ix7ufbu | 1,669,029,037 | 1,669,034,004 | 3 | 5 | I struggled with something similar, but for me it was verbal communication rather than writing, I always worry that the message I'm trying to send is expressed in a way it will be interpreted the way I want it to be, so I always ended up over explaining everything, took me some years to actually start getting better at it, but the best advice I can give you is, try it all the ways. I try to think of all the ways I can form a sentence and then choose the one that "sounds" the most like what I'm actually trying to say, right now it takes me just a couple of seconds, but sometimes I still ask people to wait while I find the right words. Maybe you can write all the ways you can express your idea and then choose the one that suits you the best. The more you do it, the less you'll need it, but you have to start somewhere. Also try therapy, there might be some underlying issues that make you so undecisive whenever you are writing. | Can you plan a story? It doesn't have to be fun to do, just can you write down a bullet list of "what happens"? If it's hard, you can practice on others' texts: take someone's short story and write down the events, one by one. Can you do it? If you get a plan, writing scenes would become easier. Make plans inside plans: let's say you've written "a hero is at home, and a visitor comes". What's the weather outside (write it down in your plan)? What's the time of the day? Who is the visitor? Who is the hero? What does the hero do? Write all of this down as a bullet list too. Sooner or later you'll get a very detailed outline, and you'll be able to write the sentences: "It was a rainy evening, the wind was harsh. Agatha was sitting in her favourite armchair by the fire and reading when she heard a knock at the back door". | 0 | 4,967 | 1.666667 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7o2kx | ix800lb | 1,669,029,375 | 1,669,037,347 | 4 | 5 | First, no “idea” can ever be completely summed up in one sentence. Enlist the aid of a friend and do free-association. Tell them what you are writing - fiction, school, business - have them throw bullet points, and you just write the one or two words that first come to mind onto notecards. Don’t fall into the trap of making it perfect in the first draft. It never happens and you can easily hit executive function disregulation paralyzation. Someone mentioned dictation software, and I am doing my research into such software along with a wireless vox lapel mike. I find myself, when wanting to write about a question or story plot, orating my thoughts. Capturing those thoughts by means other than having to seek out pen and paper or keyboard and doc file I think would greatly benefit my productivity. I also am “gifted”/suffer from ADHD, but have not done any writing while on meds, so it is hard for me to advise on your current predicament. I am currently working on a series of novels (for the last twenty years smh) and find that working on it to be very mood-oriented. Sometimes, the mood is interrupted by “writer’s block” boredom, especially when I am expanding upon a bullet point scene or idea. I love writing new content, but the mechanical drudgery of actually writing gets boring, and I have to walk away. Sometimes the mood is broken by nEeDiNg ThE eXaCtLy RiGhT wOrD and I cannot make myself compose any more until I find it. This is especially troubling since I am currently learning Russian language and one of my characters is Russian and I am wanting Her to be as authentic as possible and my inner OCD critic shuts the entire process down because ReAsOnS. And sometimes the process gets interrupted by the subject becoming too real-world emotionally overwhelming (the reason behind my current hiatus.) Nothing to be done about it until I come to grips with those emotions. Writing, even when done for pleasure, can quickly become a job/chore that no ADHDer really enjoys. The trick is to find little things to help you view writing not as one huge endeavor but as a series of fun-sized bites (like Halloween candy bars.) | Firstly, go get tested for ADHD. What you're describing isn't writer's block, it's having a hyperactive brain that can't focus. Secondly, consider the why of your writing, the intention. A year end report at work should be short and concise, focused on your achievements and areas of improvement for next year; not your intentions and missed opportunities, nor a place to "flex your prose muscles". | 0 | 7,972 | 1.25 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7o2kx | ix8gejk | 1,669,029,375 | 1,669,045,025 | 4 | 5 | First, no “idea” can ever be completely summed up in one sentence. Enlist the aid of a friend and do free-association. Tell them what you are writing - fiction, school, business - have them throw bullet points, and you just write the one or two words that first come to mind onto notecards. Don’t fall into the trap of making it perfect in the first draft. It never happens and you can easily hit executive function disregulation paralyzation. Someone mentioned dictation software, and I am doing my research into such software along with a wireless vox lapel mike. I find myself, when wanting to write about a question or story plot, orating my thoughts. Capturing those thoughts by means other than having to seek out pen and paper or keyboard and doc file I think would greatly benefit my productivity. I also am “gifted”/suffer from ADHD, but have not done any writing while on meds, so it is hard for me to advise on your current predicament. I am currently working on a series of novels (for the last twenty years smh) and find that working on it to be very mood-oriented. Sometimes, the mood is interrupted by “writer’s block” boredom, especially when I am expanding upon a bullet point scene or idea. I love writing new content, but the mechanical drudgery of actually writing gets boring, and I have to walk away. Sometimes the mood is broken by nEeDiNg ThE eXaCtLy RiGhT wOrD and I cannot make myself compose any more until I find it. This is especially troubling since I am currently learning Russian language and one of my characters is Russian and I am wanting Her to be as authentic as possible and my inner OCD critic shuts the entire process down because ReAsOnS. And sometimes the process gets interrupted by the subject becoming too real-world emotionally overwhelming (the reason behind my current hiatus.) Nothing to be done about it until I come to grips with those emotions. Writing, even when done for pleasure, can quickly become a job/chore that no ADHDer really enjoys. The trick is to find little things to help you view writing not as one huge endeavor but as a series of fun-sized bites (like Halloween candy bars.) | Others are addressing ADHD and other potential causes outside of writing, so I won't add to that. I've been reading Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg, and thought of this passage as I read your post. Here's the key bits: "Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. A writer may write painstakingly, assembling the work slowly, like a mosaic, fitting and refitting sentences and paragraphs over the years. And yet to the reader the writing may seem to flow. The reader's experience of your prose has nothing to do with how hard or easy it was for you to make... The difficulty of writing isn't a sign of failure. It's simply the nature of the work itself." ... "And like "flow", "natural" is one of the words behind writer's block. So let's suppose there's no such thing as writer's block. There's loss of confidence And forgetting to think And failing to prepare And not reading enough And giving up on patience And hastening to write And fearing your audience And never really trying to understand how sentences work. Above all, there's never learning to trust yourself or your capacity to learn or think or perceive. People will continue to believe that writing is natural. This harms only writers who believe it themselves." Of the list above, I've caught myself committing most, if not all, at some point or another. Edit: sorry about the formatting, I'm on mobile | 0 | 15,650 | 1.25 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7no43 | ix7o2kx | 1,669,029,037 | 1,669,029,375 | 3 | 4 | I struggled with something similar, but for me it was verbal communication rather than writing, I always worry that the message I'm trying to send is expressed in a way it will be interpreted the way I want it to be, so I always ended up over explaining everything, took me some years to actually start getting better at it, but the best advice I can give you is, try it all the ways. I try to think of all the ways I can form a sentence and then choose the one that "sounds" the most like what I'm actually trying to say, right now it takes me just a couple of seconds, but sometimes I still ask people to wait while I find the right words. Maybe you can write all the ways you can express your idea and then choose the one that suits you the best. The more you do it, the less you'll need it, but you have to start somewhere. Also try therapy, there might be some underlying issues that make you so undecisive whenever you are writing. | First, no “idea” can ever be completely summed up in one sentence. Enlist the aid of a friend and do free-association. Tell them what you are writing - fiction, school, business - have them throw bullet points, and you just write the one or two words that first come to mind onto notecards. Don’t fall into the trap of making it perfect in the first draft. It never happens and you can easily hit executive function disregulation paralyzation. Someone mentioned dictation software, and I am doing my research into such software along with a wireless vox lapel mike. I find myself, when wanting to write about a question or story plot, orating my thoughts. Capturing those thoughts by means other than having to seek out pen and paper or keyboard and doc file I think would greatly benefit my productivity. I also am “gifted”/suffer from ADHD, but have not done any writing while on meds, so it is hard for me to advise on your current predicament. I am currently working on a series of novels (for the last twenty years smh) and find that working on it to be very mood-oriented. Sometimes, the mood is interrupted by “writer’s block” boredom, especially when I am expanding upon a bullet point scene or idea. I love writing new content, but the mechanical drudgery of actually writing gets boring, and I have to walk away. Sometimes the mood is broken by nEeDiNg ThE eXaCtLy RiGhT wOrD and I cannot make myself compose any more until I find it. This is especially troubling since I am currently learning Russian language and one of my characters is Russian and I am wanting Her to be as authentic as possible and my inner OCD critic shuts the entire process down because ReAsOnS. And sometimes the process gets interrupted by the subject becoming too real-world emotionally overwhelming (the reason behind my current hiatus.) Nothing to be done about it until I come to grips with those emotions. Writing, even when done for pleasure, can quickly become a job/chore that no ADHDer really enjoys. The trick is to find little things to help you view writing not as one huge endeavor but as a series of fun-sized bites (like Halloween candy bars.) | 0 | 338 | 1.333333 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7no43 | ix800lb | 1,669,029,037 | 1,669,037,347 | 3 | 5 | I struggled with something similar, but for me it was verbal communication rather than writing, I always worry that the message I'm trying to send is expressed in a way it will be interpreted the way I want it to be, so I always ended up over explaining everything, took me some years to actually start getting better at it, but the best advice I can give you is, try it all the ways. I try to think of all the ways I can form a sentence and then choose the one that "sounds" the most like what I'm actually trying to say, right now it takes me just a couple of seconds, but sometimes I still ask people to wait while I find the right words. Maybe you can write all the ways you can express your idea and then choose the one that suits you the best. The more you do it, the less you'll need it, but you have to start somewhere. Also try therapy, there might be some underlying issues that make you so undecisive whenever you are writing. | Firstly, go get tested for ADHD. What you're describing isn't writer's block, it's having a hyperactive brain that can't focus. Secondly, consider the why of your writing, the intention. A year end report at work should be short and concise, focused on your achievements and areas of improvement for next year; not your intentions and missed opportunities, nor a place to "flex your prose muscles". | 0 | 8,310 | 1.666667 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix800lb | ix7v264 | 1,669,037,347 | 1,669,034,417 | 5 | 3 | Firstly, go get tested for ADHD. What you're describing isn't writer's block, it's having a hyperactive brain that can't focus. Secondly, consider the why of your writing, the intention. A year end report at work should be short and concise, focused on your achievements and areas of improvement for next year; not your intentions and missed opportunities, nor a place to "flex your prose muscles". | You might benefit from dictating to a speech to text app, which would allow you to approach writing from a new angle. Then revise after completing the scene. And as a tip, I find when I freeze in articulating something I try to phrase is it in the simplest way possible and will address it later. I have used that method for times when the right words just won't come. | 1 | 2,930 | 1.666667 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7xjr7 | ix800lb | 1,669,035,959 | 1,669,037,347 | 1 | 5 | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | Firstly, go get tested for ADHD. What you're describing isn't writer's block, it's having a hyperactive brain that can't focus. Secondly, consider the why of your writing, the intention. A year end report at work should be short and concise, focused on your achievements and areas of improvement for next year; not your intentions and missed opportunities, nor a place to "flex your prose muscles". | 0 | 1,388 | 5 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8gejk | ix7no43 | 1,669,045,025 | 1,669,029,037 | 5 | 3 | Others are addressing ADHD and other potential causes outside of writing, so I won't add to that. I've been reading Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg, and thought of this passage as I read your post. Here's the key bits: "Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. A writer may write painstakingly, assembling the work slowly, like a mosaic, fitting and refitting sentences and paragraphs over the years. And yet to the reader the writing may seem to flow. The reader's experience of your prose has nothing to do with how hard or easy it was for you to make... The difficulty of writing isn't a sign of failure. It's simply the nature of the work itself." ... "And like "flow", "natural" is one of the words behind writer's block. So let's suppose there's no such thing as writer's block. There's loss of confidence And forgetting to think And failing to prepare And not reading enough And giving up on patience And hastening to write And fearing your audience And never really trying to understand how sentences work. Above all, there's never learning to trust yourself or your capacity to learn or think or perceive. People will continue to believe that writing is natural. This harms only writers who believe it themselves." Of the list above, I've caught myself committing most, if not all, at some point or another. Edit: sorry about the formatting, I'm on mobile | I struggled with something similar, but for me it was verbal communication rather than writing, I always worry that the message I'm trying to send is expressed in a way it will be interpreted the way I want it to be, so I always ended up over explaining everything, took me some years to actually start getting better at it, but the best advice I can give you is, try it all the ways. I try to think of all the ways I can form a sentence and then choose the one that "sounds" the most like what I'm actually trying to say, right now it takes me just a couple of seconds, but sometimes I still ask people to wait while I find the right words. Maybe you can write all the ways you can express your idea and then choose the one that suits you the best. The more you do it, the less you'll need it, but you have to start somewhere. Also try therapy, there might be some underlying issues that make you so undecisive whenever you are writing. | 1 | 15,988 | 1.666667 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7v264 | ix8gejk | 1,669,034,417 | 1,669,045,025 | 3 | 5 | You might benefit from dictating to a speech to text app, which would allow you to approach writing from a new angle. Then revise after completing the scene. And as a tip, I find when I freeze in articulating something I try to phrase is it in the simplest way possible and will address it later. I have used that method for times when the right words just won't come. | Others are addressing ADHD and other potential causes outside of writing, so I won't add to that. I've been reading Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg, and thought of this passage as I read your post. Here's the key bits: "Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. A writer may write painstakingly, assembling the work slowly, like a mosaic, fitting and refitting sentences and paragraphs over the years. And yet to the reader the writing may seem to flow. The reader's experience of your prose has nothing to do with how hard or easy it was for you to make... The difficulty of writing isn't a sign of failure. It's simply the nature of the work itself." ... "And like "flow", "natural" is one of the words behind writer's block. So let's suppose there's no such thing as writer's block. There's loss of confidence And forgetting to think And failing to prepare And not reading enough And giving up on patience And hastening to write And fearing your audience And never really trying to understand how sentences work. Above all, there's never learning to trust yourself or your capacity to learn or think or perceive. People will continue to believe that writing is natural. This harms only writers who believe it themselves." Of the list above, I've caught myself committing most, if not all, at some point or another. Edit: sorry about the formatting, I'm on mobile | 0 | 10,608 | 1.666667 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8gejk | ix86acg | 1,669,045,025 | 1,669,040,520 | 5 | 2 | Others are addressing ADHD and other potential causes outside of writing, so I won't add to that. I've been reading Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg, and thought of this passage as I read your post. Here's the key bits: "Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. A writer may write painstakingly, assembling the work slowly, like a mosaic, fitting and refitting sentences and paragraphs over the years. And yet to the reader the writing may seem to flow. The reader's experience of your prose has nothing to do with how hard or easy it was for you to make... The difficulty of writing isn't a sign of failure. It's simply the nature of the work itself." ... "And like "flow", "natural" is one of the words behind writer's block. So let's suppose there's no such thing as writer's block. There's loss of confidence And forgetting to think And failing to prepare And not reading enough And giving up on patience And hastening to write And fearing your audience And never really trying to understand how sentences work. Above all, there's never learning to trust yourself or your capacity to learn or think or perceive. People will continue to believe that writing is natural. This harms only writers who believe it themselves." Of the list above, I've caught myself committing most, if not all, at some point or another. Edit: sorry about the formatting, I'm on mobile | It’s all about focusing on the main goal and planning out step by step what you’re going to do. Plotters and even plansters don’t have this problem as badly as pansters do. If you’re a plotter or planster, you’ll know what to do. But if you fancy yourself as a panster, GOOD LUCK — YOU’LL NEED IT! | 1 | 4,505 | 2.5 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8gejk | ix7xjr7 | 1,669,045,025 | 1,669,035,959 | 5 | 1 | Others are addressing ADHD and other potential causes outside of writing, so I won't add to that. I've been reading Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg, and thought of this passage as I read your post. Here's the key bits: "Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. A writer may write painstakingly, assembling the work slowly, like a mosaic, fitting and refitting sentences and paragraphs over the years. And yet to the reader the writing may seem to flow. The reader's experience of your prose has nothing to do with how hard or easy it was for you to make... The difficulty of writing isn't a sign of failure. It's simply the nature of the work itself." ... "And like "flow", "natural" is one of the words behind writer's block. So let's suppose there's no such thing as writer's block. There's loss of confidence And forgetting to think And failing to prepare And not reading enough And giving up on patience And hastening to write And fearing your audience And never really trying to understand how sentences work. Above all, there's never learning to trust yourself or your capacity to learn or think or perceive. People will continue to believe that writing is natural. This harms only writers who believe it themselves." Of the list above, I've caught myself committing most, if not all, at some point or another. Edit: sorry about the formatting, I'm on mobile | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | 1 | 9,066 | 5 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix85wve | ix8gejk | 1,669,040,343 | 1,669,045,025 | 1 | 5 | I'll be honest: the sheer verbosity of this text makes it seem like a copypasta. Add the fact that it's well formatted and clearly written and I really don't get the feeling that this was written by someone struggling to write. It's a little strange. Are you able to edit just fine? Anyways, maybe try copywork. Literally take some book and copy word for word. Maybe that will help? | Others are addressing ADHD and other potential causes outside of writing, so I won't add to that. I've been reading Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg, and thought of this passage as I read your post. Here's the key bits: "Flow is something the reader experiences, not the writer. A writer may write painstakingly, assembling the work slowly, like a mosaic, fitting and refitting sentences and paragraphs over the years. And yet to the reader the writing may seem to flow. The reader's experience of your prose has nothing to do with how hard or easy it was for you to make... The difficulty of writing isn't a sign of failure. It's simply the nature of the work itself." ... "And like "flow", "natural" is one of the words behind writer's block. So let's suppose there's no such thing as writer's block. There's loss of confidence And forgetting to think And failing to prepare And not reading enough And giving up on patience And hastening to write And fearing your audience And never really trying to understand how sentences work. Above all, there's never learning to trust yourself or your capacity to learn or think or perceive. People will continue to believe that writing is natural. This harms only writers who believe it themselves." Of the list above, I've caught myself committing most, if not all, at some point or another. Edit: sorry about the formatting, I'm on mobile | 0 | 4,682 | 5 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix86acg | ix97mdy | 1,669,040,520 | 1,669,056,019 | 2 | 3 | It’s all about focusing on the main goal and planning out step by step what you’re going to do. Plotters and even plansters don’t have this problem as badly as pansters do. If you’re a plotter or planster, you’ll know what to do. But if you fancy yourself as a panster, GOOD LUCK — YOU’LL NEED IT! | This is NOT a problem Reddit is going to solve. I can’t believe you even need to be told that. This is something professionals handle. Either tell your doctor what you’re on is not helping and you need something better or explore the idea maybe it’s not completely physiological and perhaps somewhat psychological. See if therapy will help. They might even be able to offer meds a PCP wouldn’t think to try since it’s not their specialty. | 0 | 15,499 | 1.5 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7xjr7 | ix97mdy | 1,669,035,959 | 1,669,056,019 | 1 | 3 | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | This is NOT a problem Reddit is going to solve. I can’t believe you even need to be told that. This is something professionals handle. Either tell your doctor what you’re on is not helping and you need something better or explore the idea maybe it’s not completely physiological and perhaps somewhat psychological. See if therapy will help. They might even be able to offer meds a PCP wouldn’t think to try since it’s not their specialty. | 0 | 20,060 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix85wve | ix97mdy | 1,669,040,343 | 1,669,056,019 | 1 | 3 | I'll be honest: the sheer verbosity of this text makes it seem like a copypasta. Add the fact that it's well formatted and clearly written and I really don't get the feeling that this was written by someone struggling to write. It's a little strange. Are you able to edit just fine? Anyways, maybe try copywork. Literally take some book and copy word for word. Maybe that will help? | This is NOT a problem Reddit is going to solve. I can’t believe you even need to be told that. This is something professionals handle. Either tell your doctor what you’re on is not helping and you need something better or explore the idea maybe it’s not completely physiological and perhaps somewhat psychological. See if therapy will help. They might even be able to offer meds a PCP wouldn’t think to try since it’s not their specialty. | 0 | 15,676 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix97mdy | ix8lq8o | 1,669,056,019 | 1,669,047,248 | 3 | 1 | This is NOT a problem Reddit is going to solve. I can’t believe you even need to be told that. This is something professionals handle. Either tell your doctor what you’re on is not helping and you need something better or explore the idea maybe it’s not completely physiological and perhaps somewhat psychological. See if therapy will help. They might even be able to offer meds a PCP wouldn’t think to try since it’s not their specialty. | I'd try writing "morning pages"/freewriting to shake it. | 1 | 8,771 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8u555 | ix97mdy | 1,669,050,695 | 1,669,056,019 | 1 | 3 | This is an ADHD symptom | This is NOT a problem Reddit is going to solve. I can’t believe you even need to be told that. This is something professionals handle. Either tell your doctor what you’re on is not helping and you need something better or explore the idea maybe it’s not completely physiological and perhaps somewhat psychological. See if therapy will help. They might even be able to offer meds a PCP wouldn’t think to try since it’s not their specialty. | 0 | 5,324 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix97mdy | ix92sfa | 1,669,056,019 | 1,669,054,113 | 3 | 1 | This is NOT a problem Reddit is going to solve. I can’t believe you even need to be told that. This is something professionals handle. Either tell your doctor what you’re on is not helping and you need something better or explore the idea maybe it’s not completely physiological and perhaps somewhat psychological. See if therapy will help. They might even be able to offer meds a PCP wouldn’t think to try since it’s not their specialty. | Dysgraphia? | 1 | 1,906 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix86acg | ix8ps61 | 1,669,040,520 | 1,669,048,924 | 2 | 3 | It’s all about focusing on the main goal and planning out step by step what you’re going to do. Plotters and even plansters don’t have this problem as badly as pansters do. If you’re a plotter or planster, you’ll know what to do. But if you fancy yourself as a panster, GOOD LUCK — YOU’LL NEED IT! | This sounds like ADHD. You might want to talk to your doctor. But writing can be an arduous chore for even the most productive authors. Aside from a pair of e-picture books and some self published books, the world of writing has done well without my contribution. If I never publish again writing and storytelling will go in without me. And I am fine with that. However, I still write. There are days when I write little and days when I write lots. I live for the days when I solve a problem I wrote down years before. Or even a problem I had a day before. You know, even at my fastest, I write no more than 16 words a minute. Try to get a job typing at that speed...but thats drafting. If you figure in all of the editing in maybe I write a word a minute over the course of a year. Writing is slow. Take one step at a time. | 0 | 8,404 | 1.5 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8ps61 | ix7xjr7 | 1,669,048,924 | 1,669,035,959 | 3 | 1 | This sounds like ADHD. You might want to talk to your doctor. But writing can be an arduous chore for even the most productive authors. Aside from a pair of e-picture books and some self published books, the world of writing has done well without my contribution. If I never publish again writing and storytelling will go in without me. And I am fine with that. However, I still write. There are days when I write little and days when I write lots. I live for the days when I solve a problem I wrote down years before. Or even a problem I had a day before. You know, even at my fastest, I write no more than 16 words a minute. Try to get a job typing at that speed...but thats drafting. If you figure in all of the editing in maybe I write a word a minute over the course of a year. Writing is slow. Take one step at a time. | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | 1 | 12,965 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix85wve | ix8ps61 | 1,669,040,343 | 1,669,048,924 | 1 | 3 | I'll be honest: the sheer verbosity of this text makes it seem like a copypasta. Add the fact that it's well formatted and clearly written and I really don't get the feeling that this was written by someone struggling to write. It's a little strange. Are you able to edit just fine? Anyways, maybe try copywork. Literally take some book and copy word for word. Maybe that will help? | This sounds like ADHD. You might want to talk to your doctor. But writing can be an arduous chore for even the most productive authors. Aside from a pair of e-picture books and some self published books, the world of writing has done well without my contribution. If I never publish again writing and storytelling will go in without me. And I am fine with that. However, I still write. There are days when I write little and days when I write lots. I live for the days when I solve a problem I wrote down years before. Or even a problem I had a day before. You know, even at my fastest, I write no more than 16 words a minute. Try to get a job typing at that speed...but thats drafting. If you figure in all of the editing in maybe I write a word a minute over the course of a year. Writing is slow. Take one step at a time. | 0 | 8,581 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8ps61 | ix8lq8o | 1,669,048,924 | 1,669,047,248 | 3 | 1 | This sounds like ADHD. You might want to talk to your doctor. But writing can be an arduous chore for even the most productive authors. Aside from a pair of e-picture books and some self published books, the world of writing has done well without my contribution. If I never publish again writing and storytelling will go in without me. And I am fine with that. However, I still write. There are days when I write little and days when I write lots. I live for the days when I solve a problem I wrote down years before. Or even a problem I had a day before. You know, even at my fastest, I write no more than 16 words a minute. Try to get a job typing at that speed...but thats drafting. If you figure in all of the editing in maybe I write a word a minute over the course of a year. Writing is slow. Take one step at a time. | I'd try writing "morning pages"/freewriting to shake it. | 1 | 1,676 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix86acg | ix8xk6o | 1,669,040,520 | 1,669,052,060 | 2 | 3 | It’s all about focusing on the main goal and planning out step by step what you’re going to do. Plotters and even plansters don’t have this problem as badly as pansters do. If you’re a plotter or planster, you’ll know what to do. But if you fancy yourself as a panster, GOOD LUCK — YOU’LL NEED IT! | Honestly I’d quit. Take up a hobby that causes you less anguish. | 0 | 11,540 | 1.5 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7xjr7 | ix8xk6o | 1,669,035,959 | 1,669,052,060 | 1 | 3 | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | Honestly I’d quit. Take up a hobby that causes you less anguish. | 0 | 16,101 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8xk6o | ix85wve | 1,669,052,060 | 1,669,040,343 | 3 | 1 | Honestly I’d quit. Take up a hobby that causes you less anguish. | I'll be honest: the sheer verbosity of this text makes it seem like a copypasta. Add the fact that it's well formatted and clearly written and I really don't get the feeling that this was written by someone struggling to write. It's a little strange. Are you able to edit just fine? Anyways, maybe try copywork. Literally take some book and copy word for word. Maybe that will help? | 1 | 11,717 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8xk6o | ix8lq8o | 1,669,052,060 | 1,669,047,248 | 3 | 1 | Honestly I’d quit. Take up a hobby that causes you less anguish. | I'd try writing "morning pages"/freewriting to shake it. | 1 | 4,812 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8u555 | ix8xk6o | 1,669,050,695 | 1,669,052,060 | 1 | 3 | This is an ADHD symptom | Honestly I’d quit. Take up a hobby that causes you less anguish. | 0 | 1,365 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix94jb3 | ix86acg | 1,669,054,797 | 1,669,040,520 | 3 | 2 | Sounds like you're trying to write while being in editing mode. You just gotta shut that off and let yourself write. Let the words flow like water and then once they're all out you can go back and change/fix/reread and edit how you please. You can't edit a blank page. Might also be some unrealized perfectionism too. It's okay to want it to be perfect but no first draft is ever going to be. That's why it's a first draft. You gotta give yourself permission to write poorly and trust in the you of the future to be able to sort through your writings and piece it together in the way you wanted it to be when you were first writing it all out. It's not a bad thing to have your fingers not keep up with the speed your brain thinks at. It just means it will be a little extra work to sort through it all. Maybe make a shorthand system for writing that you can refer back to/use to help speed things along (like without =w/o, at =@, ect) to help you when you're in writing mode to get it out faster. You're allowed to make shortcuts for yourself if that's what will make it easier! | It’s all about focusing on the main goal and planning out step by step what you’re going to do. Plotters and even plansters don’t have this problem as badly as pansters do. If you’re a plotter or planster, you’ll know what to do. But if you fancy yourself as a panster, GOOD LUCK — YOU’LL NEED IT! | 1 | 14,277 | 1.5 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix94jb3 | ix7xjr7 | 1,669,054,797 | 1,669,035,959 | 3 | 1 | Sounds like you're trying to write while being in editing mode. You just gotta shut that off and let yourself write. Let the words flow like water and then once they're all out you can go back and change/fix/reread and edit how you please. You can't edit a blank page. Might also be some unrealized perfectionism too. It's okay to want it to be perfect but no first draft is ever going to be. That's why it's a first draft. You gotta give yourself permission to write poorly and trust in the you of the future to be able to sort through your writings and piece it together in the way you wanted it to be when you were first writing it all out. It's not a bad thing to have your fingers not keep up with the speed your brain thinks at. It just means it will be a little extra work to sort through it all. Maybe make a shorthand system for writing that you can refer back to/use to help speed things along (like without =w/o, at =@, ect) to help you when you're in writing mode to get it out faster. You're allowed to make shortcuts for yourself if that's what will make it easier! | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | 1 | 18,838 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix94jb3 | ix85wve | 1,669,054,797 | 1,669,040,343 | 3 | 1 | Sounds like you're trying to write while being in editing mode. You just gotta shut that off and let yourself write. Let the words flow like water and then once they're all out you can go back and change/fix/reread and edit how you please. You can't edit a blank page. Might also be some unrealized perfectionism too. It's okay to want it to be perfect but no first draft is ever going to be. That's why it's a first draft. You gotta give yourself permission to write poorly and trust in the you of the future to be able to sort through your writings and piece it together in the way you wanted it to be when you were first writing it all out. It's not a bad thing to have your fingers not keep up with the speed your brain thinks at. It just means it will be a little extra work to sort through it all. Maybe make a shorthand system for writing that you can refer back to/use to help speed things along (like without =w/o, at =@, ect) to help you when you're in writing mode to get it out faster. You're allowed to make shortcuts for yourself if that's what will make it easier! | I'll be honest: the sheer verbosity of this text makes it seem like a copypasta. Add the fact that it's well formatted and clearly written and I really don't get the feeling that this was written by someone struggling to write. It's a little strange. Are you able to edit just fine? Anyways, maybe try copywork. Literally take some book and copy word for word. Maybe that will help? | 1 | 14,454 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix94jb3 | ix8lq8o | 1,669,054,797 | 1,669,047,248 | 3 | 1 | Sounds like you're trying to write while being in editing mode. You just gotta shut that off and let yourself write. Let the words flow like water and then once they're all out you can go back and change/fix/reread and edit how you please. You can't edit a blank page. Might also be some unrealized perfectionism too. It's okay to want it to be perfect but no first draft is ever going to be. That's why it's a first draft. You gotta give yourself permission to write poorly and trust in the you of the future to be able to sort through your writings and piece it together in the way you wanted it to be when you were first writing it all out. It's not a bad thing to have your fingers not keep up with the speed your brain thinks at. It just means it will be a little extra work to sort through it all. Maybe make a shorthand system for writing that you can refer back to/use to help speed things along (like without =w/o, at =@, ect) to help you when you're in writing mode to get it out faster. You're allowed to make shortcuts for yourself if that's what will make it easier! | I'd try writing "morning pages"/freewriting to shake it. | 1 | 7,549 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8u555 | ix94jb3 | 1,669,050,695 | 1,669,054,797 | 1 | 3 | This is an ADHD symptom | Sounds like you're trying to write while being in editing mode. You just gotta shut that off and let yourself write. Let the words flow like water and then once they're all out you can go back and change/fix/reread and edit how you please. You can't edit a blank page. Might also be some unrealized perfectionism too. It's okay to want it to be perfect but no first draft is ever going to be. That's why it's a first draft. You gotta give yourself permission to write poorly and trust in the you of the future to be able to sort through your writings and piece it together in the way you wanted it to be when you were first writing it all out. It's not a bad thing to have your fingers not keep up with the speed your brain thinks at. It just means it will be a little extra work to sort through it all. Maybe make a shorthand system for writing that you can refer back to/use to help speed things along (like without =w/o, at =@, ect) to help you when you're in writing mode to get it out faster. You're allowed to make shortcuts for yourself if that's what will make it easier! | 0 | 4,102 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix92sfa | ix94jb3 | 1,669,054,113 | 1,669,054,797 | 1 | 3 | Dysgraphia? | Sounds like you're trying to write while being in editing mode. You just gotta shut that off and let yourself write. Let the words flow like water and then once they're all out you can go back and change/fix/reread and edit how you please. You can't edit a blank page. Might also be some unrealized perfectionism too. It's okay to want it to be perfect but no first draft is ever going to be. That's why it's a first draft. You gotta give yourself permission to write poorly and trust in the you of the future to be able to sort through your writings and piece it together in the way you wanted it to be when you were first writing it all out. It's not a bad thing to have your fingers not keep up with the speed your brain thinks at. It just means it will be a little extra work to sort through it all. Maybe make a shorthand system for writing that you can refer back to/use to help speed things along (like without =w/o, at =@, ect) to help you when you're in writing mode to get it out faster. You're allowed to make shortcuts for yourself if that's what will make it easier! | 0 | 684 | 3 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7xjr7 | ix86acg | 1,669,035,959 | 1,669,040,520 | 1 | 2 | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | It’s all about focusing on the main goal and planning out step by step what you’re going to do. Plotters and even plansters don’t have this problem as badly as pansters do. If you’re a plotter or planster, you’ll know what to do. But if you fancy yourself as a panster, GOOD LUCK — YOU’LL NEED IT! | 0 | 4,561 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix86acg | ix85wve | 1,669,040,520 | 1,669,040,343 | 2 | 1 | It’s all about focusing on the main goal and planning out step by step what you’re going to do. Plotters and even plansters don’t have this problem as badly as pansters do. If you’re a plotter or planster, you’ll know what to do. But if you fancy yourself as a panster, GOOD LUCK — YOU’LL NEED IT! | I'll be honest: the sheer verbosity of this text makes it seem like a copypasta. Add the fact that it's well formatted and clearly written and I really don't get the feeling that this was written by someone struggling to write. It's a little strange. Are you able to edit just fine? Anyways, maybe try copywork. Literally take some book and copy word for word. Maybe that will help? | 1 | 177 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7xjr7 | ix9fibr | 1,669,035,959 | 1,669,059,150 | 1 | 2 | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | I like your writing—it has a lot of personality. Thanks for agonizing over it. And, Keep at it. Words are just words without the breath of narration. While you are writing (you) slip into the narrator’s skin and forget about clumsy old pathetic you (at least until you edit/rewrite) Pick a narrator you enjoy visiting…someone with colorful language, who’s insightful and has room for a little whimsy. | 0 | 23,191 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix85wve | ix9fibr | 1,669,040,343 | 1,669,059,150 | 1 | 2 | I'll be honest: the sheer verbosity of this text makes it seem like a copypasta. Add the fact that it's well formatted and clearly written and I really don't get the feeling that this was written by someone struggling to write. It's a little strange. Are you able to edit just fine? Anyways, maybe try copywork. Literally take some book and copy word for word. Maybe that will help? | I like your writing—it has a lot of personality. Thanks for agonizing over it. And, Keep at it. Words are just words without the breath of narration. While you are writing (you) slip into the narrator’s skin and forget about clumsy old pathetic you (at least until you edit/rewrite) Pick a narrator you enjoy visiting…someone with colorful language, who’s insightful and has room for a little whimsy. | 0 | 18,807 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8lq8o | ix9fibr | 1,669,047,248 | 1,669,059,150 | 1 | 2 | I'd try writing "morning pages"/freewriting to shake it. | I like your writing—it has a lot of personality. Thanks for agonizing over it. And, Keep at it. Words are just words without the breath of narration. While you are writing (you) slip into the narrator’s skin and forget about clumsy old pathetic you (at least until you edit/rewrite) Pick a narrator you enjoy visiting…someone with colorful language, who’s insightful and has room for a little whimsy. | 0 | 11,902 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix9fibr | ix8u555 | 1,669,059,150 | 1,669,050,695 | 2 | 1 | I like your writing—it has a lot of personality. Thanks for agonizing over it. And, Keep at it. Words are just words without the breath of narration. While you are writing (you) slip into the narrator’s skin and forget about clumsy old pathetic you (at least until you edit/rewrite) Pick a narrator you enjoy visiting…someone with colorful language, who’s insightful and has room for a little whimsy. | This is an ADHD symptom | 1 | 8,455 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix9fibr | ix92sfa | 1,669,059,150 | 1,669,054,113 | 2 | 1 | I like your writing—it has a lot of personality. Thanks for agonizing over it. And, Keep at it. Words are just words without the breath of narration. While you are writing (you) slip into the narrator’s skin and forget about clumsy old pathetic you (at least until you edit/rewrite) Pick a narrator you enjoy visiting…someone with colorful language, who’s insightful and has room for a little whimsy. | Dysgraphia? | 1 | 5,037 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixb6eol | ix7xjr7 | 1,669,086,561 | 1,669,035,959 | 2 | 1 | Honestly it sounds a lot like burn out, but if it's been going on for years it's obviously more than that. That kind of brain fog or mental block where your straining to think but all you get is just a mental lump of half thoughts honestly just reminds me of my experience with depression. It may be best to talk to a professional and look into that. From my experience treatment and some proper coping skills do help to disperse that fog if you know the right angle to come at it from. | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | 1 | 50,602 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixb6eol | ix85wve | 1,669,086,561 | 1,669,040,343 | 2 | 1 | Honestly it sounds a lot like burn out, but if it's been going on for years it's obviously more than that. That kind of brain fog or mental block where your straining to think but all you get is just a mental lump of half thoughts honestly just reminds me of my experience with depression. It may be best to talk to a professional and look into that. From my experience treatment and some proper coping skills do help to disperse that fog if you know the right angle to come at it from. | I'll be honest: the sheer verbosity of this text makes it seem like a copypasta. Add the fact that it's well formatted and clearly written and I really don't get the feeling that this was written by someone struggling to write. It's a little strange. Are you able to edit just fine? Anyways, maybe try copywork. Literally take some book and copy word for word. Maybe that will help? | 1 | 46,218 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixb6eol | ix8lq8o | 1,669,086,561 | 1,669,047,248 | 2 | 1 | Honestly it sounds a lot like burn out, but if it's been going on for years it's obviously more than that. That kind of brain fog or mental block where your straining to think but all you get is just a mental lump of half thoughts honestly just reminds me of my experience with depression. It may be best to talk to a professional and look into that. From my experience treatment and some proper coping skills do help to disperse that fog if you know the right angle to come at it from. | I'd try writing "morning pages"/freewriting to shake it. | 1 | 39,313 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixb6eol | ix8u555 | 1,669,086,561 | 1,669,050,695 | 2 | 1 | Honestly it sounds a lot like burn out, but if it's been going on for years it's obviously more than that. That kind of brain fog or mental block where your straining to think but all you get is just a mental lump of half thoughts honestly just reminds me of my experience with depression. It may be best to talk to a professional and look into that. From my experience treatment and some proper coping skills do help to disperse that fog if you know the right angle to come at it from. | This is an ADHD symptom | 1 | 35,866 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix92sfa | ixb6eol | 1,669,054,113 | 1,669,086,561 | 1 | 2 | Dysgraphia? | Honestly it sounds a lot like burn out, but if it's been going on for years it's obviously more than that. That kind of brain fog or mental block where your straining to think but all you get is just a mental lump of half thoughts honestly just reminds me of my experience with depression. It may be best to talk to a professional and look into that. From my experience treatment and some proper coping skills do help to disperse that fog if you know the right angle to come at it from. | 0 | 32,448 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixb6eol | ix9ga8d | 1,669,086,561 | 1,669,059,447 | 2 | 1 | Honestly it sounds a lot like burn out, but if it's been going on for years it's obviously more than that. That kind of brain fog or mental block where your straining to think but all you get is just a mental lump of half thoughts honestly just reminds me of my experience with depression. It may be best to talk to a professional and look into that. From my experience treatment and some proper coping skills do help to disperse that fog if you know the right angle to come at it from. | Try dictating! It helped me get the first 30,000 words on the page. Then flush it out from there. | 1 | 27,114 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixb6eol | ixag811 | 1,669,086,561 | 1,669,074,470 | 2 | 1 | Honestly it sounds a lot like burn out, but if it's been going on for years it's obviously more than that. That kind of brain fog or mental block where your straining to think but all you get is just a mental lump of half thoughts honestly just reminds me of my experience with depression. It may be best to talk to a professional and look into that. From my experience treatment and some proper coping skills do help to disperse that fog if you know the right angle to come at it from. | I struggle to write prose that I like. But when it comes to business writing I often stick to a simple method: 1. Make a list of the facts you will convey. Use 2-5 words for each item — just enough that you know what each item on the list is. 2. Sort these facts so the order of delivery makes sense. 3. Resist the urge to think of this as an outline 4. Turn each fact into a sentence that is readable, but no more than readable. You can do them in any order. This simple sentence by sentence translation is where the magic is. You now have a readable draft that conveys your meaning. Editing can make it nicer, but the bones are there. This cuts my email writing time dramatically. I sometimes use this for creative writing as well. Often I find that it’s procrastination - some part that I know I will need to write, which I am actively avoiding Oh and as others said, look into ADHD. It’s real and there are meds beyond adderal. And therapy can help. | 1 | 12,091 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixb6eol | ixahly1 | 1,669,086,561 | 1,669,075,108 | 2 | 1 | Honestly it sounds a lot like burn out, but if it's been going on for years it's obviously more than that. That kind of brain fog or mental block where your straining to think but all you get is just a mental lump of half thoughts honestly just reminds me of my experience with depression. It may be best to talk to a professional and look into that. From my experience treatment and some proper coping skills do help to disperse that fog if you know the right angle to come at it from. | Besides all the good advice already given, if for some reason you can't dictate, there are apps like The Most Dangerous Writing App which deletes your writing if you stop typing. Anything that stops you from reading what you've just wrote. You may refine your text once you've got it all down. Editing as you go makes things hard because you can only make your last sentence better in relation to what you've already written, but not in relation to what you're yet to write. You'll be making perfect a sentence that you might choose to delete much later. So don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. | 1 | 11,453 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix7xjr7 | ixbctz9 | 1,669,035,959 | 1,669,089,784 | 1 | 2 | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | What I'd do were I in your position; is grab my phone and record myself telling the story verbally, repeating any sentences or dialogue (In a funny voice ofc) that I wasn't happy with. Then I'd write down what I'd said in the recording, forcing myself not to overthink and rephrase. Then fix grammar and Voila! | 0 | 53,825 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix85wve | ixbctz9 | 1,669,040,343 | 1,669,089,784 | 1 | 2 | I'll be honest: the sheer verbosity of this text makes it seem like a copypasta. Add the fact that it's well formatted and clearly written and I really don't get the feeling that this was written by someone struggling to write. It's a little strange. Are you able to edit just fine? Anyways, maybe try copywork. Literally take some book and copy word for word. Maybe that will help? | What I'd do were I in your position; is grab my phone and record myself telling the story verbally, repeating any sentences or dialogue (In a funny voice ofc) that I wasn't happy with. Then I'd write down what I'd said in the recording, forcing myself not to overthink and rephrase. Then fix grammar and Voila! | 0 | 49,441 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixbctz9 | ix8lq8o | 1,669,089,784 | 1,669,047,248 | 2 | 1 | What I'd do were I in your position; is grab my phone and record myself telling the story verbally, repeating any sentences or dialogue (In a funny voice ofc) that I wasn't happy with. Then I'd write down what I'd said in the recording, forcing myself not to overthink and rephrase. Then fix grammar and Voila! | I'd try writing "morning pages"/freewriting to shake it. | 1 | 42,536 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixbctz9 | ix8u555 | 1,669,089,784 | 1,669,050,695 | 2 | 1 | What I'd do were I in your position; is grab my phone and record myself telling the story verbally, repeating any sentences or dialogue (In a funny voice ofc) that I wasn't happy with. Then I'd write down what I'd said in the recording, forcing myself not to overthink and rephrase. Then fix grammar and Voila! | This is an ADHD symptom | 1 | 39,089 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix92sfa | ixbctz9 | 1,669,054,113 | 1,669,089,784 | 1 | 2 | Dysgraphia? | What I'd do were I in your position; is grab my phone and record myself telling the story verbally, repeating any sentences or dialogue (In a funny voice ofc) that I wasn't happy with. Then I'd write down what I'd said in the recording, forcing myself not to overthink and rephrase. Then fix grammar and Voila! | 0 | 35,671 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixbctz9 | ix9ga8d | 1,669,089,784 | 1,669,059,447 | 2 | 1 | What I'd do were I in your position; is grab my phone and record myself telling the story verbally, repeating any sentences or dialogue (In a funny voice ofc) that I wasn't happy with. Then I'd write down what I'd said in the recording, forcing myself not to overthink and rephrase. Then fix grammar and Voila! | Try dictating! It helped me get the first 30,000 words on the page. Then flush it out from there. | 1 | 30,337 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixag811 | ixbctz9 | 1,669,074,470 | 1,669,089,784 | 1 | 2 | I struggle to write prose that I like. But when it comes to business writing I often stick to a simple method: 1. Make a list of the facts you will convey. Use 2-5 words for each item — just enough that you know what each item on the list is. 2. Sort these facts so the order of delivery makes sense. 3. Resist the urge to think of this as an outline 4. Turn each fact into a sentence that is readable, but no more than readable. You can do them in any order. This simple sentence by sentence translation is where the magic is. You now have a readable draft that conveys your meaning. Editing can make it nicer, but the bones are there. This cuts my email writing time dramatically. I sometimes use this for creative writing as well. Often I find that it’s procrastination - some part that I know I will need to write, which I am actively avoiding Oh and as others said, look into ADHD. It’s real and there are meds beyond adderal. And therapy can help. | What I'd do were I in your position; is grab my phone and record myself telling the story verbally, repeating any sentences or dialogue (In a funny voice ofc) that I wasn't happy with. Then I'd write down what I'd said in the recording, forcing myself not to overthink and rephrase. Then fix grammar and Voila! | 0 | 15,314 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixahly1 | ixbctz9 | 1,669,075,108 | 1,669,089,784 | 1 | 2 | Besides all the good advice already given, if for some reason you can't dictate, there are apps like The Most Dangerous Writing App which deletes your writing if you stop typing. Anything that stops you from reading what you've just wrote. You may refine your text once you've got it all down. Editing as you go makes things hard because you can only make your last sentence better in relation to what you've already written, but not in relation to what you're yet to write. You'll be making perfect a sentence that you might choose to delete much later. So don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. | What I'd do were I in your position; is grab my phone and record myself telling the story verbally, repeating any sentences or dialogue (In a funny voice ofc) that I wasn't happy with. Then I'd write down what I'd said in the recording, forcing myself not to overthink and rephrase. Then fix grammar and Voila! | 0 | 14,676 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixbnpg3 | ix7xjr7 | 1,669,096,327 | 1,669,035,959 | 2 | 1 | Just going to throw in another 2 cents here. I'll say the same thing I say to every single person who gets stuck in their first drafts. I also know this will sound cliché and you probably won't believe me but this is the truth. * When you write the first draft of anything, the RULE is you CANNOT EDIT ONE SINGLE WORD OF IT UNTIL YOU FINISH THE FIRST DRAFT. * Do NOT rewrite ANY SENTENCES until you are FINISHED! * COMMIT TO writing a MEDIOCRE, HACK FIRST DRAFT!!! You can fix it later! * Accept the fact that you can't make something good until there is SOMETHING to work with. * You can't edit a blank piece of paper, and if you can't stop rewriting one sentence at a time you can rewrite your first sentence until the end of time. So how about this: don't do that. * Watch THIS VIDEO of a guy sculpting a portrait. Notice how it's all smooth and refined and perfect at the END but yet starts with blobs and clumps, and the guy spends most of the time structuring and mathematically finding the correct placements and shapes? Point is, the guy does NOT start by making a perfect eyelid, and a perfect lip, and a perfect nose. He starts with structure, and it looks like a pile of mud until the structure is there. Writing can be just like that. Bet you didn't expect that. Making one perfect sentence after another is amateur. This post took 3 minutes. If I rewrote it it would be way smarter and more concise. | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | 1 | 60,368 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix85wve | ixbnpg3 | 1,669,040,343 | 1,669,096,327 | 1 | 2 | I'll be honest: the sheer verbosity of this text makes it seem like a copypasta. Add the fact that it's well formatted and clearly written and I really don't get the feeling that this was written by someone struggling to write. It's a little strange. Are you able to edit just fine? Anyways, maybe try copywork. Literally take some book and copy word for word. Maybe that will help? | Just going to throw in another 2 cents here. I'll say the same thing I say to every single person who gets stuck in their first drafts. I also know this will sound cliché and you probably won't believe me but this is the truth. * When you write the first draft of anything, the RULE is you CANNOT EDIT ONE SINGLE WORD OF IT UNTIL YOU FINISH THE FIRST DRAFT. * Do NOT rewrite ANY SENTENCES until you are FINISHED! * COMMIT TO writing a MEDIOCRE, HACK FIRST DRAFT!!! You can fix it later! * Accept the fact that you can't make something good until there is SOMETHING to work with. * You can't edit a blank piece of paper, and if you can't stop rewriting one sentence at a time you can rewrite your first sentence until the end of time. So how about this: don't do that. * Watch THIS VIDEO of a guy sculpting a portrait. Notice how it's all smooth and refined and perfect at the END but yet starts with blobs and clumps, and the guy spends most of the time structuring and mathematically finding the correct placements and shapes? Point is, the guy does NOT start by making a perfect eyelid, and a perfect lip, and a perfect nose. He starts with structure, and it looks like a pile of mud until the structure is there. Writing can be just like that. Bet you didn't expect that. Making one perfect sentence after another is amateur. This post took 3 minutes. If I rewrote it it would be way smarter and more concise. | 0 | 55,984 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8lq8o | ixbnpg3 | 1,669,047,248 | 1,669,096,327 | 1 | 2 | I'd try writing "morning pages"/freewriting to shake it. | Just going to throw in another 2 cents here. I'll say the same thing I say to every single person who gets stuck in their first drafts. I also know this will sound cliché and you probably won't believe me but this is the truth. * When you write the first draft of anything, the RULE is you CANNOT EDIT ONE SINGLE WORD OF IT UNTIL YOU FINISH THE FIRST DRAFT. * Do NOT rewrite ANY SENTENCES until you are FINISHED! * COMMIT TO writing a MEDIOCRE, HACK FIRST DRAFT!!! You can fix it later! * Accept the fact that you can't make something good until there is SOMETHING to work with. * You can't edit a blank piece of paper, and if you can't stop rewriting one sentence at a time you can rewrite your first sentence until the end of time. So how about this: don't do that. * Watch THIS VIDEO of a guy sculpting a portrait. Notice how it's all smooth and refined and perfect at the END but yet starts with blobs and clumps, and the guy spends most of the time structuring and mathematically finding the correct placements and shapes? Point is, the guy does NOT start by making a perfect eyelid, and a perfect lip, and a perfect nose. He starts with structure, and it looks like a pile of mud until the structure is there. Writing can be just like that. Bet you didn't expect that. Making one perfect sentence after another is amateur. This post took 3 minutes. If I rewrote it it would be way smarter and more concise. | 0 | 49,079 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixbnpg3 | ix8u555 | 1,669,096,327 | 1,669,050,695 | 2 | 1 | Just going to throw in another 2 cents here. I'll say the same thing I say to every single person who gets stuck in their first drafts. I also know this will sound cliché and you probably won't believe me but this is the truth. * When you write the first draft of anything, the RULE is you CANNOT EDIT ONE SINGLE WORD OF IT UNTIL YOU FINISH THE FIRST DRAFT. * Do NOT rewrite ANY SENTENCES until you are FINISHED! * COMMIT TO writing a MEDIOCRE, HACK FIRST DRAFT!!! You can fix it later! * Accept the fact that you can't make something good until there is SOMETHING to work with. * You can't edit a blank piece of paper, and if you can't stop rewriting one sentence at a time you can rewrite your first sentence until the end of time. So how about this: don't do that. * Watch THIS VIDEO of a guy sculpting a portrait. Notice how it's all smooth and refined and perfect at the END but yet starts with blobs and clumps, and the guy spends most of the time structuring and mathematically finding the correct placements and shapes? Point is, the guy does NOT start by making a perfect eyelid, and a perfect lip, and a perfect nose. He starts with structure, and it looks like a pile of mud until the structure is there. Writing can be just like that. Bet you didn't expect that. Making one perfect sentence after another is amateur. This post took 3 minutes. If I rewrote it it would be way smarter and more concise. | This is an ADHD symptom | 1 | 45,632 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixbnpg3 | ix92sfa | 1,669,096,327 | 1,669,054,113 | 2 | 1 | Just going to throw in another 2 cents here. I'll say the same thing I say to every single person who gets stuck in their first drafts. I also know this will sound cliché and you probably won't believe me but this is the truth. * When you write the first draft of anything, the RULE is you CANNOT EDIT ONE SINGLE WORD OF IT UNTIL YOU FINISH THE FIRST DRAFT. * Do NOT rewrite ANY SENTENCES until you are FINISHED! * COMMIT TO writing a MEDIOCRE, HACK FIRST DRAFT!!! You can fix it later! * Accept the fact that you can't make something good until there is SOMETHING to work with. * You can't edit a blank piece of paper, and if you can't stop rewriting one sentence at a time you can rewrite your first sentence until the end of time. So how about this: don't do that. * Watch THIS VIDEO of a guy sculpting a portrait. Notice how it's all smooth and refined and perfect at the END but yet starts with blobs and clumps, and the guy spends most of the time structuring and mathematically finding the correct placements and shapes? Point is, the guy does NOT start by making a perfect eyelid, and a perfect lip, and a perfect nose. He starts with structure, and it looks like a pile of mud until the structure is there. Writing can be just like that. Bet you didn't expect that. Making one perfect sentence after another is amateur. This post took 3 minutes. If I rewrote it it would be way smarter and more concise. | Dysgraphia? | 1 | 42,214 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix9ga8d | ixbnpg3 | 1,669,059,447 | 1,669,096,327 | 1 | 2 | Try dictating! It helped me get the first 30,000 words on the page. Then flush it out from there. | Just going to throw in another 2 cents here. I'll say the same thing I say to every single person who gets stuck in their first drafts. I also know this will sound cliché and you probably won't believe me but this is the truth. * When you write the first draft of anything, the RULE is you CANNOT EDIT ONE SINGLE WORD OF IT UNTIL YOU FINISH THE FIRST DRAFT. * Do NOT rewrite ANY SENTENCES until you are FINISHED! * COMMIT TO writing a MEDIOCRE, HACK FIRST DRAFT!!! You can fix it later! * Accept the fact that you can't make something good until there is SOMETHING to work with. * You can't edit a blank piece of paper, and if you can't stop rewriting one sentence at a time you can rewrite your first sentence until the end of time. So how about this: don't do that. * Watch THIS VIDEO of a guy sculpting a portrait. Notice how it's all smooth and refined and perfect at the END but yet starts with blobs and clumps, and the guy spends most of the time structuring and mathematically finding the correct placements and shapes? Point is, the guy does NOT start by making a perfect eyelid, and a perfect lip, and a perfect nose. He starts with structure, and it looks like a pile of mud until the structure is there. Writing can be just like that. Bet you didn't expect that. Making one perfect sentence after another is amateur. This post took 3 minutes. If I rewrote it it would be way smarter and more concise. | 0 | 36,880 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixbnpg3 | ixag811 | 1,669,096,327 | 1,669,074,470 | 2 | 1 | Just going to throw in another 2 cents here. I'll say the same thing I say to every single person who gets stuck in their first drafts. I also know this will sound cliché and you probably won't believe me but this is the truth. * When you write the first draft of anything, the RULE is you CANNOT EDIT ONE SINGLE WORD OF IT UNTIL YOU FINISH THE FIRST DRAFT. * Do NOT rewrite ANY SENTENCES until you are FINISHED! * COMMIT TO writing a MEDIOCRE, HACK FIRST DRAFT!!! You can fix it later! * Accept the fact that you can't make something good until there is SOMETHING to work with. * You can't edit a blank piece of paper, and if you can't stop rewriting one sentence at a time you can rewrite your first sentence until the end of time. So how about this: don't do that. * Watch THIS VIDEO of a guy sculpting a portrait. Notice how it's all smooth and refined and perfect at the END but yet starts with blobs and clumps, and the guy spends most of the time structuring and mathematically finding the correct placements and shapes? Point is, the guy does NOT start by making a perfect eyelid, and a perfect lip, and a perfect nose. He starts with structure, and it looks like a pile of mud until the structure is there. Writing can be just like that. Bet you didn't expect that. Making one perfect sentence after another is amateur. This post took 3 minutes. If I rewrote it it would be way smarter and more concise. | I struggle to write prose that I like. But when it comes to business writing I often stick to a simple method: 1. Make a list of the facts you will convey. Use 2-5 words for each item — just enough that you know what each item on the list is. 2. Sort these facts so the order of delivery makes sense. 3. Resist the urge to think of this as an outline 4. Turn each fact into a sentence that is readable, but no more than readable. You can do them in any order. This simple sentence by sentence translation is where the magic is. You now have a readable draft that conveys your meaning. Editing can make it nicer, but the bones are there. This cuts my email writing time dramatically. I sometimes use this for creative writing as well. Often I find that it’s procrastination - some part that I know I will need to write, which I am actively avoiding Oh and as others said, look into ADHD. It’s real and there are meds beyond adderal. And therapy can help. | 1 | 21,857 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixahly1 | ixbnpg3 | 1,669,075,108 | 1,669,096,327 | 1 | 2 | Besides all the good advice already given, if for some reason you can't dictate, there are apps like The Most Dangerous Writing App which deletes your writing if you stop typing. Anything that stops you from reading what you've just wrote. You may refine your text once you've got it all down. Editing as you go makes things hard because you can only make your last sentence better in relation to what you've already written, but not in relation to what you're yet to write. You'll be making perfect a sentence that you might choose to delete much later. So don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. | Just going to throw in another 2 cents here. I'll say the same thing I say to every single person who gets stuck in their first drafts. I also know this will sound cliché and you probably won't believe me but this is the truth. * When you write the first draft of anything, the RULE is you CANNOT EDIT ONE SINGLE WORD OF IT UNTIL YOU FINISH THE FIRST DRAFT. * Do NOT rewrite ANY SENTENCES until you are FINISHED! * COMMIT TO writing a MEDIOCRE, HACK FIRST DRAFT!!! You can fix it later! * Accept the fact that you can't make something good until there is SOMETHING to work with. * You can't edit a blank piece of paper, and if you can't stop rewriting one sentence at a time you can rewrite your first sentence until the end of time. So how about this: don't do that. * Watch THIS VIDEO of a guy sculpting a portrait. Notice how it's all smooth and refined and perfect at the END but yet starts with blobs and clumps, and the guy spends most of the time structuring and mathematically finding the correct placements and shapes? Point is, the guy does NOT start by making a perfect eyelid, and a perfect lip, and a perfect nose. He starts with structure, and it looks like a pile of mud until the structure is there. Writing can be just like that. Bet you didn't expect that. Making one perfect sentence after another is amateur. This post took 3 minutes. If I rewrote it it would be way smarter and more concise. | 0 | 21,219 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixbw1mm | ix7xjr7 | 1,669,102,463 | 1,669,035,959 | 2 | 1 | I can'r recommend "Writing down the bones" from Natalie Goldberg enough, it is all about developing trust in ypur writing voice and to me seems perfect to your situation - good luck! | Sometimes "wanting" to write isn't enough. If you can't let go of the inner critic and just put the words down, you aren't going to get anywhere. So, find what it takes for you to sit you ass in the chair and get the words out. Only you can figure this out. Or, take up golf, or needlepoint. Needlepoint might be better, there aren't a whole lot of decisions you need to make, you just follow a pattern. Golf requires you to know what club is best for what, and pick one. | 1 | 66,504 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix85wve | ixbw1mm | 1,669,040,343 | 1,669,102,463 | 1 | 2 | I'll be honest: the sheer verbosity of this text makes it seem like a copypasta. Add the fact that it's well formatted and clearly written and I really don't get the feeling that this was written by someone struggling to write. It's a little strange. Are you able to edit just fine? Anyways, maybe try copywork. Literally take some book and copy word for word. Maybe that will help? | I can'r recommend "Writing down the bones" from Natalie Goldberg enough, it is all about developing trust in ypur writing voice and to me seems perfect to your situation - good luck! | 0 | 62,120 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ixbw1mm | ix8lq8o | 1,669,102,463 | 1,669,047,248 | 2 | 1 | I can'r recommend "Writing down the bones" from Natalie Goldberg enough, it is all about developing trust in ypur writing voice and to me seems perfect to your situation - good luck! | I'd try writing "morning pages"/freewriting to shake it. | 1 | 55,215 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix8u555 | ixbw1mm | 1,669,050,695 | 1,669,102,463 | 1 | 2 | This is an ADHD symptom | I can'r recommend "Writing down the bones" from Natalie Goldberg enough, it is all about developing trust in ypur writing voice and to me seems perfect to your situation - good luck! | 0 | 51,768 | 2 | ||
z0t4se | writing_train | 0.82 | Advice Needed Please...this post took 6hrs to write I struggle whenever try to write *anything*. A review, short story, business email, even putting my thoughts down on post is not safe from this madness. I know what I want to write, or at least know the premise of what I want to write, but as soon as I try to type, I struggle to articulate my thoughts and find that I am unable to string together an intelligible sentence. My thoughts are fleeting - I can't pin down the sentence I want write. There are many different ways to construct a sentence that convey the same idea and I can't choose. The infinite possibilities assault me all at once in a rush of half thoughts and jumbled words my mind tries to mash together in a desperate attempt to form a coherent sentence. I sift through the garbled mess of brain vomit and type whatever I can latch onto before it slips my mind. But it doesn't matter - a few words in and my tentative grasp on the sentence I'm trying to compose is already fading. I either blank on what I was in the middle of articulating, stumped on what words should follow and how to proceed, or a different syntax of the sentence I was just writing popped into my head and now I need to scrap the meager words I wrote and start from scratch with the new sentence....until another way write pops in my head and a scrap that one. This constant back and forth of typing and deleting again and again because I can't articulate what I actually want to write so I write all the possible ways to write the same sentence over and over because I don't know which version is the best or I just end up freezing up and and HOURS go by and I never get past the first sentence because I am in a writing hell that is so frustrating it literally gives me headaches to think and mentally drains me to the point I feel physically exhausted. What is this?? It took me 8hrs to write up my year end review for work! I'm not even posting my personal anywhere, I just want to write stories for myself but I can't even bring myself do it! It literally feels like a mental block, not a writer's block, but a mental one where I can't bring myself to be fine with what I write. Has anyone else been through this?? I'm at my wits end and have come close to quitting writing numerous times because I'm wasting my HOURS of my life trying to write and having nothing to show for it but broken incomplete sentences and a headache. I WANT to write, but I can't get past this mental barricade that has been crippling my ability to write for YEARS and I don't know what to do. Any advice or an explanation would be appreciated. This post took 6hrs to write...my heads hurts | ix92sfa | ixbw1mm | 1,669,054,113 | 1,669,102,463 | 1 | 2 | Dysgraphia? | I can'r recommend "Writing down the bones" from Natalie Goldberg enough, it is all about developing trust in ypur writing voice and to me seems perfect to your situation - good luck! | 0 | 48,350 | 2 |
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