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Writer's Block: What is your muse?
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Thinking about how others will react to my fiction is the worst thing I can do to myself when writing. I completely shut down the creative process on my novel because I stopped writing from my gut and started thinking too much about appealing to a hypothetical future audience.
Getting input from friends didn't help either. At first it was fun engaging my friends in the story, seeing their enthusiasm about it, enjoying their ideas -- but over time I found myself struggling with one or two of them about their interpretations of certain characters.
Thinking about how others will react to my fiction is the worst thing I can do to myself when writing. I completely shut down the creative process on my novel because I stopped writing from my gut and started thinking too much about appealing to a hypothetical future audience.
Getting input from friends didn't help either. At first it was fun engaging my friends in the story, seeing their enthusiasm about it, enjoying their ideas -- but over time I found myself struggling with one or two of them about their interpretations of certain characters.