Writer's block.

[yungwake0]

I love to write, I just never have anything to write about. I know just about everyone has experienced a form of writer's block at some point, so I ask how do you overcome it? What inspires you? Where do you go for ideas when you have none, and how do you flesh them out when you do have them?

Do forgive if this thread has already been made, and feel free to merge as needed.

[Semper]

Usually what helps me out of writer's block is reading something. It could be a short story or a whole novel. Reading someone else's words gives me something to bounce my own ideas off of. All art comes from a source or multiple sources of inspiration and sometimes that requires you refill your cup of influences. If you're writing original fiction now you have something to build off of, and if you're writing a blog post now you have something to write about.

You could also try writing exercises. I personally recommend Ursula K Le Guin's Steering the Craft. She lays out some really interesting and (and imo low stress) exercises and references some classical texts that you can get for free from Project Gutenberg.

I hope this helps a bit.

Best of luck!

[_ghost_]

For me, it's often not quite accurate to say I don't have any ideas to write about, but rather that I have ideas and then can't force myself to actually put any words on paper. When that's the case, I often just... talk to my friends about what I'm thinking instead. That way I'm going over those ideas again and maybe adding to them, even though actually writing a story is too hard at the moment. This still counts as writing, to me, because developing the idea you want to write about is an important part of the process. I count making moodboards or playlists as writing for the same reason.

I know that's probably not super helpful in your case, but I thought it was still something that might be useful to think about.