Hello! 🌊 I’m a fantasy writer working on a small novella and I’m struggling with the fact that it just doesn’t… feel like the right time/a good time to write.

My writing comes out of a deep sense of comfort and relaxation and being/feeling safe…the feeling builds up inside me and I let it out by imagining worlds and lives.

I’m fighting a big stress battle right now. I’m going through something in my career that will be the biggest evaluation with the biggest impact that I’ll have gone through in fourteen years.

Incidentally, the very topic of the evaluation is hitting some of my deepest trauma so I’m constantly triggered. I’m taking both meds and helpful supplements, doing visualisations and keeping my reading on uplifting/wholesome stories to keep my emotions on track/keep them from spiralling.

I’m hoping to use this group of empathic (writers have empathy, right, in order to get into our characters’ minds?) people to find some similar minded thoughts on my writing right now.

I’m also really reeling in a positive-impact sort of way from coming back to my story after a long time where I felt like I had no place to go with my story, only to make a major realisation about something profoundly foundational to my character, which upended my whole perspective on the weird limitations I was sensing with my book.

I feel spooky, like “spooky action at a distance” (quantum entanglement); things keep happening with my story and with me and I’m trying most of all to be true to that voice that gives me glimmers of something.

How does intuition interface with your writing? And with your keeping-on-writing?

I tag this as a writing prompt because I don’t want conventional advice on it—I want to see where these thoughts take you, that I might surf awhile in someone else’s mind, and regain mine more clearly.