Rekindling my creative side

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I have always been a somewhat creative person. Not in the artisitic way, I can't draw to save my life, but with words. I was constantly writing when I was younger. I kept sporadic diaries and wrote a series of stories based on my teddies and the world they inhabited that could be accessed through a portal in my bedroom wall. I created characters for stories I would never actually write. That evolved when I entered my teenage years and I began to write stories based around myself and my friends, writing updates in numerous notebooks and me and my two best friends spent many a weekend writing stories, taking it in turns to write a section. I also discovered Harry Potter fanfiction in my teens and I was sucked into a world of canon and non-canon, ships and AU's and I loved it. In 2010 I wrote my very first piece of fanfiction and my archive at HarryPotterFanFiction.com now boasts six stories.

I discovered twitter and YouTube in 2012 and found the Booktube community. I had all but stopped writing (except for fanfiction) at this point and finding a group of people who shared their love of books was exhilarating. I created my own channel and made several videos but that also petered off quite quickly. I started this blog with great enthusiasm whilst I was working part time and for a while I was pretty consistent with my posts. After not writing creatively for a while having a blog was refreshing. I was able to once again pour my thoughts out on to a page.

And then that kind of grinded to a halt as well.

The truth is over the past few weeks I have been feeling incredibly creatively frustrated. I miss writing. Now I'm not one of those people for whom writing is like breathing. That's what reading is for me. But I do miss writing. I miss writing for myself. I miss envisaging myself as someone else and putting myself in a story. I miss keeping a diary. I miss writing fanfiction. I miss blogging.