Creative Slumps

I think I’m in a creative slump. I’ve been making things but not what I want to focus on, which is writing. The frustrating thing about trying to be a writer in the modern age is that you also have to put yourself out there on social media. But I’m not good at marketing myself as a writer.

I get distracted.

But I need to build followers somehow, so I post other things. Art and poetry or whatever is easy.

And then I’m not talking about writing. But it feels weird talking about my writing. Especially when I don’t have a way to share it.

And then I think I have to write about serious things because that’s what’s happening in the world. I don’t want to seem ignorant. I also get angry and sad about everything, and that’s what I tend to write about.

The things in the world that’s making me feel angry and sad.

And then I feel disingenuous about what I am writing because I am writing about it but not actually doing anything about it. And I crash out.

But is creating art about something still important if that’s the only way that I can contribute at the moment? I don’t know. I just know making things makes me feel better rather than not making things.

With Love,

Diana