'Tis I! Writer's Block!

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We've all been here. You want to write but you have no ideas. It sucks. My advice to you is to keep writing. Write anything. Just open up a doc or a draft wattpad story and just write something about someone who did something at some time.

  Use writing prompts if you have to. Little snippets of dialogue. A scene that you know you want to include in your book but you don't know where. Anything!

  This will help you improve your skills and you might come across something that gets you out of your writing slump. Trust me. I have an entire doc called 'Scene Selection' where I have every scene that I ever want to include in one of my stories. I have another dedicated solely to writing prompts. Another is an oc Harry Potter fic that will never see the light of day.

  Even just editing will work. Anything that gets the creative juices flowing. Even reaserch, fanart browsing, headcanons, etc. can act as inspiration.

What usually works for me is reading other fics on wattpad and seeing how cool they are. Sometimes they have scenes that give me ideas or maybe dialogue. Reading other people's works are always a good idea. Even poorly written fics have gems of creativity. Read everything.

The other day I read one that was really sad. The author was really mean to my bat boys (giving them all disabilities and a whole lot of other problems) and it made me write a chapter because I wanted to have my bat boys happy again. Even sad inspiration is better than none.

Write write write!

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