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In my experience hibernation doesn't help, unless you are so into a story that you're suffering from burnout. Nine times out of ten, if I leave a story unfinished, it will remain that way. In you...
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2019-12-13T11:56:53Z (about 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T12:36:03Z (about 5 years ago)
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In my experience hibernation doesn't help, unless you are so into a story that you're suffering from burnout. Nine times out of ten, if I leave a story unfinished, it will remain that way. In your case, hibernating makes even less sense since _you already know_ what you want to write in the final chapters. So, what keeps you from writing those chapters? "Inspiration" is partly a truth, partly a myth. We all experience the need to write, the feeling of being lost in the flow of words coming out from our fingertips effortlessy. It's a pretty nice feeling indeed. **But you don't have to be inspired all the time to write**. Nobody is. I'm willing to bet that the more you're willing to wait for the fleeting feeling of inspiration, the more you'll fall into periods of inactive pessimism. If you keep writing without relying on ispiration alone, you'll get more chances for inspiration to appear.
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2019-07-31T15:11:09Z (over 5 years ago)
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