# "Here I am - same old story in a brand new book..." # - Train
Some eagle-eyed readers (or indeed "listeners") may
have found out that I've been going through a bit of a period of "writer's block" recently. Now, I'm sure different scribblers define
this pariah of a 'condition' by different degrees, but for me, it tends to be
when I hit a significant amount of time (probably about 2 or 3 months) where
although I'm still having ideas for stories and jotting down notes for future
books, I'm not actually getting down to a daily routine of the hard graft of
writing.
I've no idea why this happens but this particular bout has come
at the end of a rather long over-development stage (drafting and redrafting) of
"my space saga". And while this was definitely a
milestone, having worked on that first adventure novel for a good decade,
perhaps the exhaustion factor had set in a little and I hadn't realised, as I
tried to launch myself into my next project of "my gnome gnovel",
petrified that I'd just grind to a complete halt after my great magus opus was
"completed". So my present situation with the writing is that
I'm regrouping and redoubling my efforts on that book about the tiny-people
(which in itself, being more of a fantasy narrative structure, is a departure
for me, out of my comfort zone of writing - perhaps this is another
contributing factor to the writer's block?), but in the meantime, I'm also
keeping creative in other ways with my writing...