Today is Writers Therapy Blog hop.
The rules:
To participate in the blog hop, follow these simple steps.
1. Write a post about what you use as your writing therapy (pinterest, chocolate, a TV show, book, ect) and how it helps you.
2. Pick a Writer Therapy badge and add it to your blog sidebar.
3. Have your blog post go up on the morning of October 22, 2012. We’ll post a new blog entry here early that morning with links.
4. If you sign up for the blog hop, make sure you comment on at least 5 other blogs on October 22.
My writing therapy boils down to two things.
1) reading- this helps my inspiration low because I'm getting new input from a different writer and it also helps me escape the confines of my own writing and what might be ailing me.
2) my writer friends/critiquing. Friends are great for getting stuff off my chest, bouncing ideas, and critiquing their work to take my mind off mine. They are a great source for inspiration or procrastination depending on the perception of it all.
Do you escape by book?
Are friends procrastination or inspiration for your writing?
Happy Writing!
The rules:
To participate in the blog hop, follow these simple steps.
1. Write a post about what you use as your writing therapy (pinterest, chocolate, a TV show, book, ect) and how it helps you.
2. Pick a Writer Therapy badge and add it to your blog sidebar.
3. Have your blog post go up on the morning of October 22, 2012. We’ll post a new blog entry here early that morning with links.
4. If you sign up for the blog hop, make sure you comment on at least 5 other blogs on October 22.
My writing therapy boils down to two things.
1) reading- this helps my inspiration low because I'm getting new input from a different writer and it also helps me escape the confines of my own writing and what might be ailing me.
2) my writer friends/critiquing. Friends are great for getting stuff off my chest, bouncing ideas, and critiquing their work to take my mind off mine. They are a great source for inspiration or procrastination depending on the perception of it all.
Do you escape by book?
Are friends procrastination or inspiration for your writing?
Happy Writing!
24 comments:
Nothing like a good book to take your mind to another place :) And Friends are the best distraction. Especially writer buddies because they get it :) I love reading my critique partners work. It's always so refreshing :)
My critique partners are always giving me new ideas!
Yes, I do. I find reading a great way to get over the writing woes or to relieve stress. It sure helps me, at least. :)
Reading definitely is therapy...for writing...for everything. Thanks for sharing.
You can find my writing therapy at:
http://www.greeneyesandfreckles.blogspot.com
Natasha
These sound like the perfect escape and refueling techniques. I think you got it down. :) And you are doing your "homework" --which is what i tell my kids, when I need them to bug off.
Reading books by fave authors are wonderful for inspiration!! And good friends much as you love em are a fab distraction for me! LOL! Take care
x
Reading is great, it can inspire and motivate. Friends are also fantastic at this!
Ah, yes, reading. It's amazing that I read MORE when I am writing, rather than less. As for friends, most just look at me like I am weird when I say I am writing. Cheers!
Yes, both those things work for me too sometimes. Nothing like a great CP...
My critique group is definitely my biggest Therapy.
I need to read more...
TV is NOT one for me. It's more like a creative sucking box of doooom! (I noticed that Chersti used TV as an example in the rules...)
My critique group is definitely my biggest Therapy.
I need to read more...
TV is NOT one for me. It's more like a creative sucking box of doooom! (I noticed that Chersti used TV as an example in the rules...)
Yes! There are days I'd rather be a reader than a writer, so much easier and less stressful. However, those voices inside my head (not the mental illness kind, the creative kind) won't leave me be.
My friends are a great get away and often they do inspire me.
I don't know how I would survive the writing world without my awesome critique group - so friends is a definite Writer Therapy for me! I hit a rough chapter this past few weeks, and every night that week I was on the phone with one of my critique group, getting ideas or just complaining about my dumb chapter. FINALLY the whole thing is resolve, thank goodness.
~Chersti Nieveen
Love reading. We wouldn't be writers if we didn't love reading! A writer has two kinds of friends: writing friends and non-writing friends. Writing friends inspire and non-writing friends distract. But BOTH are important to a writer's therapy!
Crit partners are pretty awesome for getting out of a funk=) Stopping by from the blog hop and wanted to say I love your blog!
sometimes books inspire me--other times they make me flail and decide I have to quit because I'll "never write something that good ever." LOL! :D
but I love escaping in books. And I love spending time with friends. So I guess yes is my answer... :o) <3
Reading is a definite for me. I sometimes wonder if I should just read all the time and not write. But those characters keep calling me back to the keyboard!
I always have a good book! Nothing like a good book...
Critique partners are something I'm currently struggling with. I have an MFA (don't hold it against me!) but my friends from that program are all non-fiction writers as my focus at that time was creative non-fiction. While I still write and love writing creative non-fiction (mostly travel writing), I'm currently writing a YA novel.
Reading is homework--the really enjoyable kind!
I love reading for inspiration. Helps cut down on the TBR list as well!
Completely agree! Good books are great for sparking inspiration. There are several authors I read who are great at making my figurative writing better.
Thank you for your insight, I enjoyed reading about your therapies!
I totally love to escape by book! A really, really good book! ;)
Those would be mine as well Summer.
Reading and inspiration from our blogger community had helped me tremendously with my journey in writing.
I have a friend I write long rambling emails to when I get stuck. Usually, I work it out before I hit send. Not always, though. Other writers to bounce ideas off of are great, too.
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