When I don't want to write, or rather did not want to write, it would be when I am so busy I cannot give it that time. Much of my life before was like that. The desire to write was not really missing though. But electronically saving drafts really made it easier to make opportunity to be writing, and issues in the way of doing what I used to be more able to do also enabled me to give more opportunity to be writing, which I make use of, that I wanted to for a long time before though. So no there was no time that I did not want time to be writing.
Because I am at the end of the story and I don't know how to end it. Or even worse, I don't want it to end. It happens. I get too attached to the story.
Because sometimes I just feel like I'm going through the motions, and I want to do something (anything) else ... like stare out the window at the clouds, or go for a walk. The novel I'm currently working on has been in Development Hell since mid-2023. That's when I started planning it, so I had to rework the plan about 5 or 6 times, to iron out all the bugs. The plan is now done, as well as the first 4 chapters, but there's still lots to do. It's times like these that I thank every god that, thanks to working my butt off for 25 years, I already have a steady job, and I don't have to write for a living. *sigh* I've been writing for 30 years, and I'm only satisfied with my work for the past seven or so ...
When I finish a work I still have other writing that I have to still work on anyway, so I do not come to a time when I would not want to write, and I still will.
Because my current health problems have my anxiety through the roof and I cant concentrate. Also, my eyes aren't what they once were.
Sometimes I have problems with the start engine. To actually open my writing laptop and open the document can be a serious struggle. But when I very well do it, I always manage to write. I've had this issue for a long time and been trying a lot to get it resolved, will try more until it gets better. I'm sorry to hear this Naja. Life can be incredibly unfair. I hope your issues resolve themselves and that you can get good health, if that is possible.
Writing takes a great deal of focus. And I let myself get distracted reading a whole bunch of other things.
Because I can't come up with any more ideas. I genuinely don't know how to come up with ideas and I'm surprised that I've been able to come up with what I have. Actually, I do have an idea. I could write down my thoughts on a diary and then I could have characters in situations that would make them think those thoughts.
I pretty much learned that I have creativity in me and can really trust it. I start writing with some things I thought of or what others might even give me, it does not have to be a whole lot. I admit it is mostly seat of the pants writing, as I go in from the start I am using more and more ideas that will fit that I put in the writing as I go on with it. This is not a great difficulty. I stop where I don't think of more for it and return with yet more that I will have later. It is much more challenging for me to wrap up a story well to have it come to an end. So there are several very long works from me.
