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I am in a fairly deep writing rut that has been going on for two months or so--a.k.a. after I finished writing my sixth book, which was the goal of my summer. Since then I had a small burst of inspiration that caused me to begin work on a new idea for a novel and stole my attention away from my attempts to finish off a few short stories that are half-finished. I managed to write the ending to one of said short stories, but not the middle connecting chunk, which is, admittedly, a bit of a  problem. My main issue, however, besides not being able to come up with the information necessary for me to move my stories along their plots, is that I simply find it near impossible to be productive when I have free time--which is weekends ninety percent of the time. There is something about living on campus--along with campus itself--that causes me to have an incredible amount of difficulty in performing non-necessary activities. Most of the time I can study and do things for class without much difficulty, but when I try to get other things done, such as reading, writing, or cleaning, I don't have the will or energy or attention span to complete them. I end up wasting my time on other pointless things. There are times when I sincerely want to write, have the document up and my environment set up as I normally would for writing, but can't seem to get going on the part of the story that I need to be working on. I have been able to write out parts of later scenes, but currently can't move the main part of the story forward.

I hope to be able to get past this soon, and am planning on putted concentrated effort into working through it and making progress on some literary piece, whatever it may be. Hopefully I will have something more interest to post about for you next week.

Tschüs.