Slumpy and dumpy, I’m feeling grumpy. The end of December twinkled its lights and blinded me. Images of sugarplums not only danced in my head, they had an all-night party and crashed on my couch for two weeks.
I took a break from writing, interrupting one of the most prolific writing periods I’ve ever had. Call it a creativity smackdown. And now, well, I can’t seem to jumpy back into it.
What to do?
I need to chug-chug along here. I’ve got a mentoring session to attend in February and the NJ-SCBWI annual conference is in early June. (Five months is a mere blip in the writing world, like the short amount of time humans have been on Earth in comparison to the age of the Universe.)
How can I snap myself back into shape? I need a hard wallop upside my head. Didn’t I just write about making this year a revisolution? Ha! What a crock! I’m soft and lumpy.
So give me your ideas. How do you get out of a writing slump?
LOL re: the all-nighter and crashing on your couch! :0D
Wish I had an answer for you. I was in a slump too and I’m only kind of finding my way out. The problem is that I don’t think there’s one way to get a writer out of a slump. Even for the same writer, it may take different motivations at different times. I hope you can find yours, because I know that slumps stink.
Good luck getting unstuck!!!!
Christy
oh… and caffeine. Lots of it, followed by long walks alone, no ipod, nothing…
I love your blog. Followed you from Robin Mizell’s, though I’ve seen your fb notes. Good stuff. Congrats on all the 2008 accomplishments - here’s to doubling that in 2009!
Please tell me how the Rutgers one-on-one goes - I’ve been contemplating that myself. Peace, Linda
I’ve been in a slump for a year, so I am the wrong person to ask! But how about starting a picture book with your first line: Slumpy and dumpy, I’m feeling grumpy.
Funny, Corey! You know I don’t do rhyme well!