I’ve been in this slump lately. It seems I do a ton of stuff each day and then I’m so over-exhausted I can’t write. It’s not that I don’t have anything in my head, or that I don’t know what will happen next. I’m just tapped out of energy.
At least I’m still getting some work done, it’s just not on the level I’m pleased with. So what should I do to climb out of the hole? Go write somewhere else. Mostly I write at home. But with the kids and distractions, work just isn’t working out right now.
One place I love is the library. Another is my fave lunch time restaurant, Bardenay. And the other is, of course, Starbucks or other coffee houses. Sometimes even my friends houses if they are also writers.
I really want to get more stories out there. And I can’t do that if I’m not writing. So I have to prioritize. What’s more important? That summer movie or writing? Hands down, writing 🙂
Shelley Martin Fiction 
I’m lucky I’m an early riser…I get my writing in before I crash later in the day. Try that, then u can see your movie in the evening 🙂
Oh goodness my problem is if I ever right it’s always after midnight. Some reason my creativity and need to remember suddenly activates when i enter that half asleep dreamy stage…
I have to change locations sometimes, too. At the Boise conference this weekend, my hotel room was nice and quiet…and I couldn’t write there. So I headed to the busy pool, found a corner, and wrote 3000 words with my headphones on. Sometimes you just have to shake things up. 🙂