ever felt the burnout for writing??

hey guys ...

so, have you ever felt The Burnout, especially for writing??

having no motivation at all to write, or scrawl, or even read, or even listening to audiobooks.

i'm feelin it now. just completed, 2 weeks ago, the biggest and the last hurdle in order to complete my study. i stil feel the raw exhaustion.

i love writing, so i'd like to get back to it. nothin seems to work to get me back diving into writing/drafting.

so guys, in your experiences....what did you do to get back into the swings of writing regularly again??

Haha, yes. Especially after studies! Basically, I just critique until I get into the mood. It helps me.

I think I once had that Burnout for like six months... Didn't pick up a pen once...

And then I realized November was on the way, and I had to get geared up for NaNoWriMo. So I started writing something to prepare, and then when National Novel Writing Month rolled around, I wrote some more and got to 50,000 words in 30 days. >.< Deadlines = <3 <3 <3

Otherwise... Maybe try bribing yourself? "If I write five thousand words today, I will by myself a huge bar of chocolate. If I write ten thousand words, I will get myself that cute shirt I've been wanting. If I finish a novel, I will buy myself a new laptop and crown myself ruler of the universe!!! >:D "

So, set goals for yourself! XD

I got the burnout after finishing a novel. I'm still haven't fully recovered but I'm getting there. With myself, when I get the burnout I either let myself be burnout for awhile - wait for inspiration to hit, it will eventually - or I sit down and force myself to freewrite. Even if its just crap, I force myself to write just to get my brain back into the pace of it, you know?
I don't know if that will help, because we're all different in the way we work, but I hope it does and I wish you luck. Burnout and writers' block - my evil twin enemies.

Yeah, I have burnout Wednesday to Sunday. I wish I could write (in a non-torturous manner) more than 2 days a week.

Every single Friday lately, because I write articles online and it's a tedious process. Then, once I have time to actually do some of my creative writing, I'm sick of putting words together in an engaging way, lol.

Forcing yourself to hit a daily word count quota can help, even if it might take a few hours to reach that goal or if you just delete most of it afterward--it's still flexing your thinkin' muscles. OR, my favorite thing (but I get easily distracted) is to go off and read stuff on Digg or StumbleUpon, or search for new music on SoundCloud. If it's not that, it's off to the pool!

I have a burn-out right now. I'm trying to write but it's just something I don't want to do. I start writing then I get sdistracted by the internet. Even the stuff I'm writing now is really crappy. I'm joining loads of storybooks to see if I can get back into writing, but I think that unless the internet permantetly goes down in my house, this burn out is here to stay. =__(

Ack, yes. D:< A couple days ago I wrote something that ended up being the best work I've done in a long time. I've been wanting to follow it up with another scene, but. I. Just. Can't. Either I get distracted by the internet's shiny allure or people trample into my writing space (granted, putting a computer in the middle of a kitchen is a pretty bad idea).

*flail*

Oh, Pritt! I know exactly how you feel! My computer is in the kitchen too! And to make matters worse, the door to the kitchen is a screen door that slams really loud behind people so you can't possible ignore their prescence. And my Mamaw loves to talk...to anyone...at anytime..no matter if they're in a flow or not...

Oh ick. I had the writing burnout after nanowrimo for a while. I would just get brief little moments where my muse would come, but then she would go away. I conquered the burnout last week. I wrote! I wrote a lot. I was at a nerdy writing camp so I had to write, and now my muse is back. Huzzah!

Yeah, so just write. Write whatever. I did short stories and poetry a lot.

Yeah, I had the burnout for almost three months. It was awful!After a while, I just sort of forced myself to write. At first, I just felt awful, but the more I wrote, the better I felt. After a few pages, plot twists and ideas started popping into my head, and I was back in the swing of things.