I've been in a writing slump for most of 2023. I'm one of the "weird ones", who wrote more during covid lockdown than after. My word count has been declining the past two years, I have maaaybe finished one or two fic this year compared to preivous years where I wrote at least two-three each quarter and then finished at least one video edit every week on top of that.

I have tried everything, writing prompts, writing something else, writing more, not writing, read more, read less, read something else. For this reason I started reading manga again and got very excited about borrowing the manga's plot for my favorite ship, but after plotting and writing maybe 1/3 I went out of town to visit my friends and I never picked it back up.

I generally struggle to write detailed, long fics (over 30K) since I'm more of a flashfic writer, but the ideas I've dabble with lately require a lot of planning, a lot of details and a lot of words. Even though I have written a couple of fics that's close to 30K word count, the fics I have been planning recently are easily 100K ones. That's not my forte at all.

Like everyone else, I have certain tropes that I love, and when I read back to my stories, they tend to sneak into all my fics one way or another and I feel perhaps like I'm repeating myself, that I am might be too comfortable in my comfort sone and can't break out, but it's incredibly boring to write the same thing over and over, including somehow not improving my English (English is not my mother tongue) the slightest during the past three years of intense writing.

I also have a bunch of WIPs dusting away, which normally don't bother me because I usually tend to circle back to them, but somehow this hasn't happened for the entire year so far.

Should perhaps mention that I only recently logged off all social media (except Reddit) after having been involved in some very hefty fandom discourse / wars, especially Twitter, and maybe it's taken a toll on the inspiration but I have no idea how to get it back. I have not been able to untangle the why's and I'm just frustrated :/