The fear of not getting paid and this losing everything is a pretty good motivator. It’s still hard and I often think maybe I should just kill myself cause what’s even the point when this is all life is, but then I just force myself into the shower and take off to my job.
Please try find a hobby for your spare time. Then you can live for that. Even if it’s just a passing hobby, it could get you out of your rut and make way for a new hobby you may encounter.
I have hobbies, but none that really feel like a purpose. I liked going on walks when it was warmer out, finding new trails all the time. Tried replacing it with the gym now that it’s colder, but it’s nowhere near the same. Other than that, it’s just writing about the entertainment stuff I mess with like videogames, movies, shows, and books on sites like Letterboxd, Goodreads, and Backloggd.
I tried a long time ago, but I’m not creative enough for fictional stories and get distracted when researching things I have a massive interest in. It’s why I’d prefer something like school (or documentaries but I can only find a few that interest me like American Animals, Aliens of the Deep, and National Gallery), but I got no money for that. Tried some free online teaching things and stopped once I went a few days without it due to a friend dying. If I’m not forced to do it like I would a structured environment then I give up pretty easy.
Just write whatever, doesn’t ever have to be a complete story, can just be snippets or ideas. Just little bits here and there to exercise that part of your brain. And who knows maybe eventually you’ll start coming up with ideas you think are cooler.
I always suggest creative hobbies that build up a skill more so than just active ones because active ones (unless there’s problem solving involved like bouldering for example), it gets to a point where you just doing repetitions of the act. If there’s a creative aspect to it you can always build upon it on it in new and interesting ways as you become more proficient.
I don’t know if I’d say creative storytelling is the only way to become better at writing with others just becoming repetitive. I’ve written about the films I’ve watched very frequently since 2021 and I feel the writing I do now is infinitely better than the drivel I started out doing. Still nowhere near what a professional who actually studied film for years and deeply understands the ins and outs of it could write, like something from Roger Ebert, but I like what I’ve put up at least within the last few months.
I didn’t mean to make it come across as creative writing was the only way to get better at writing as a whole. Was more trying to say that exercising the creative side would make you better at that side in particular because you said you found yourself not good at creative writing. I was trying to encourage you into expand your hobby of writing into creative writing as well, if you felt like you were being held back on trying it more because of that.
The fear of not getting paid and this losing everything is a pretty good motivator. It’s still hard and I often think maybe I should just kill myself cause what’s even the point when this is all life is, but then I just force myself into the shower and take off to my job.
Please try find a hobby for your spare time. Then you can live for that. Even if it’s just a passing hobby, it could get you out of your rut and make way for a new hobby you may encounter.
I have hobbies, but none that really feel like a purpose. I liked going on walks when it was warmer out, finding new trails all the time. Tried replacing it with the gym now that it’s colder, but it’s nowhere near the same. Other than that, it’s just writing about the entertainment stuff I mess with like videogames, movies, shows, and books on sites like Letterboxd, Goodreads, and Backloggd.
Have you considered writing stories? Maybe that could be how you leverage your enjoyment of writing towards something that you feel has more purpose.
I tried a long time ago, but I’m not creative enough for fictional stories and get distracted when researching things I have a massive interest in. It’s why I’d prefer something like school (or documentaries but I can only find a few that interest me like American Animals, Aliens of the Deep, and National Gallery), but I got no money for that. Tried some free online teaching things and stopped once I went a few days without it due to a friend dying. If I’m not forced to do it like I would a structured environment then I give up pretty easy.
Just write whatever, doesn’t ever have to be a complete story, can just be snippets or ideas. Just little bits here and there to exercise that part of your brain. And who knows maybe eventually you’ll start coming up with ideas you think are cooler.
I always suggest creative hobbies that build up a skill more so than just active ones because active ones (unless there’s problem solving involved like bouldering for example), it gets to a point where you just doing repetitions of the act. If there’s a creative aspect to it you can always build upon it on it in new and interesting ways as you become more proficient.
I don’t know if I’d say creative storytelling is the only way to become better at writing with others just becoming repetitive. I’ve written about the films I’ve watched very frequently since 2021 and I feel the writing I do now is infinitely better than the drivel I started out doing. Still nowhere near what a professional who actually studied film for years and deeply understands the ins and outs of it could write, like something from Roger Ebert, but I like what I’ve put up at least within the last few months.
I didn’t mean to make it come across as creative writing was the only way to get better at writing as a whole. Was more trying to say that exercising the creative side would make you better at that side in particular because you said you found yourself not good at creative writing. I was trying to encourage you into expand your hobby of writing into creative writing as well, if you felt like you were being held back on trying it more because of that.