some new members may not know me, but this thread isn't for them :p. I disappeared mysteriously after the summer, and have now returned. Since people were asking, I decided to make this thread to try and explain my absence.
No, I don't have any concrete reason, and no, no-one died. I found myself sick of my own work. Everything I wrote was stale and predictable--if not to others, at least to me. I had become my own cliche, and I couldn't write anymore. Nothing was inspirational, and I lost any semblance of creativity.
Since I was so down writing-wise, my ability to review too suffered. I didn't know what to say or how to help people.
So, simply put, I left.
Sorry.
However, I'm doing better, and I'm much happier, in general, now then I was before. I'm still not writing nearly as much as I used to, but I don't write the same as I used to, either.
Anyway, the point is, I am back, and I am critiquing again.
So.... hello.
I hate that feeling. I haven't really written in months. Makes me sick. How did you get over it? Just...time?