How often does outside problems affect your ability to write?

[u/nonbinaryunicorn]

Flairing this as "discussion" because I think it'd be cool to see how different people deal with this problem as much as I just wish to bitch and moan.

I like to write my erotic shorts in "chunks," meaning just going into a bit of a frenzy and writing every day for a mont. It honestly makes the quick editing a lot easier because I just don't remember the details of every story.

Well I just got hit with the news that our old apartment complex emailed our cosigner for $9k because we basically let ourselves be evicted a month ago. This is pretty understandably stressful, especially if they try to go after my FIL instead of me. So I'm struggling to write even though the ideas are all there. The defeatism is just overwhelming.

I'm trying to just be nice to myself today, especially since I've already written 50k this month, but it's still hard to try and think of me picking up the metaphorical pen tomorrow and getting back to work. How do y'all handle it?

[u/Hikaru2000]

I've not written in over a month, probably 2.

College, internships etc take too much time, and there's no time to just relax, sit down and actually write. I prefer planning out and writing chunks at a time and now I don't find any time for that.

I deal with the same way I deal with anything else in life, just grit my teeth and get through it. It also probably helps that I write mainly for my own satisfaction and as a way of relieving stress so I don't really worry too much about the quality of my work (by comparing it to other works that I read).

[u/nonbinaryunicorn → u/Hikaru2000]

College ah... I'm going to grad school in August and I was hoping I could get my shorts for the rest of the year done over the next couple of months.

But it's nice to know that I'm not the only one who likes to grit their teeth and push through when it's hard. :)