Anyway today I thought I'd post about reading/writing slumps. Ugh, I hate them. Here's a (formal?) definition I found on google:
Reading Slump:
- Reading slumps are a bad, bad thing. You start thinking that the genre sucks or that maybe you've changed so that the genre no longer appeals to you. You pick up ten books in your to be read pile and they all look horrible.
Recently I've been on a huge one, where every book I pick up is boring and I actually don't feel like reading. I don't look forward to when I can sit down and immerse myself in my book so I just...don't...it got so bad recently when I was reading An Abundance of Kathrines by John Green that I was reading a twenty page chapter PER DAY. I don't like it, and I almost stresses me out.
Another slump I've been on recently and have only just started to break out of it is a writing slump. I like to write everyday. But when there's nothing to write about, or you've got bored of every story you've been working on you just stop writing all together and don't feel like writing (I HATE this feeling.) But the good news is, is that it's easy to get out of. For the reading, you just need to put down the book you're not liking and pick up a new one, even better if it's one you've looked forward to reading for ages (I got Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell for my birthday and it worked instantly.) As for the writing...start writing about something that interests you. Don't plan your storyline, or characters, just write something and see where you get. (I started writing about genetically modified humans being put through a series of tests to find the cure for a disease that was killing the population of the world, which is what I seem to be interested in these days.) Also, don't worry about whether it's a copy of someone else's work (Realising now that that plot sounds suspiciously like The Maze Runner series...Oh well, know one's gonna read it)