Doing It Wrong

[gb]

I've picked 750words up this month, after a long break. I'm enjoying maintaining the streak, but I don't feel any of the benefits from keeping up the habit or writing down words that the practice is recommended for.

I'm not getting the same feeling of inexplicable writer's block I posted about here a while ago; instead, it's more... irritation, that I'm writing down words with no meaning or purpose, simply so I can say 'I've maintained a streak for X days!', rather than feeling any of the benefits of writing itself. More and more often it feels like a waste of time, to be honest, especially when it takes me an hour of on-and-off writing to reach the goal and I wind up with a page of to-do lists and yelling in caps lock.

I suppose I should be thankful there is nothing bothering me so much that I have to rant about it at length any more, heh. I still feel like I'm doing something wrong. Does anyone else feel like this at times? Any suggestions?

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[gb]

Now I think about it, I suspect it's the reason I went on an extended break! I'm glad I'm not the only one, at least. :)

The best idea I've had so far is to find a site with various subject prompts, and use those to spur me into writing more in-depth. Sometimes, trying to write on a particular subject leads me to repeat 'I have nothing to say about this' over and over, but it's better than nothing. If I have any success I'll report back here!

[draigwen]

When I last used 750words - a long time ago now - I was using subject prompts for writing fiction. I had a fairly reasonable streak going. The minute I stopped using the prompts, I found my writing was completely unsatisfying and gave up. So yeah, the prompts seem a good way to go.