Skipping unwanted creative valleys
Not rest periods, but frustrating eras
All November, we’re focusing on non-fiction writing prompts per usual but through the frame of also taking a good, long look at your writing life and overall creative career things you want to do.
Reflect on any periods of creative struggle during or between your past projects. That might mean struggling to do the writing/work itself or struggling to get the writing in front of readers in some way or another. What were the factors at play at the time? How did they affect your work and visibility? What was going on with you at the time, like, generally?
Write into the idea of where you’ve felt these gaps/lulls/valleys in the past and see what themes or patterns emerge. Then, perhaps also use any epiphanies you have to consider how you might outsmart or counter such a pattern or event on the road ahead.
