Okay so

I study Creative Writing and English Literature at university. When I was almost 17, some things happened and I kind of stopped writing... not entirely, but until then I wrote almost every night. So for the past 3/4 years, I've struggled with it... I used to enjoy it. It was fun. But now all I think about is what grade I'd get for it, if anyone would like it, and sometimes I change things that I like just because I think other people will like it more in another way. Which... isn't fun. Sometimes you have to because, well, editing. But I no longer write because I'm super into it or excited to. Most stories I write are for uni, and I hate them all. I've tried to restart writing fanfics but those are pretty bad too. Technically speaking, they're better than my old ones, but I feel like they lack any feeling.

So anyway here's a One Piece fic I started like last year, please tell me what you think? I has an M rating but it actually isn't M rated right now. http://archiveofourown.org/works/739434/chapters/1376548

The most recent piece I have is for uni, and I don't wanna post it because my uni traces your work's similarity to everything online, so they might think I copied it from... myself. :U haha Be critical but kind of gentle I am fragile /hides

First off, I am gonna go ahead and tell you that I didn't read your work. I read a little bit of it, but the topic is a bit of an emotional trigger for me... -has issues with anxiety and fear of failure- So... Yeah. Anyway, what I did read had good sentence structure and I think you did a good job of keeping the action moving while still giving engaging description of your characters.

As for the writer's block: I wrote fluffy (mediocre) straight romance for a few years before college, struggled to get myself to even write essays for my classes, and then picked up writing again after graduating. I've very seldom experienced writer's block because I don't force it. I just write what I want to write when I get inspired. I may get to the point where I have *something I'd like to publish one day, but I doubt I'd make publishers very happy. (*First, I'd have to actually finish a story.) Writing is something I do mostly for my own enjoyment; I'm never gonna be interested in publishing a novel every 6 months to a year. Too much pressure!

The main bit of advice I can give you is this: Don't worry if you don't feel like writing your own stuff right now... When you are in university, there are a lot of things that can distract your creative process. Exams, essays, other students, etc. (I can imagine the pressure is tenfold when you are getting a degree in it.)

I would suggest going ahead and just writing what you want to write, but that probably isn't the best bit of advice. I kinda did but I wasn't getting a degree in it. I mean, I didn't think my English/Creative Writing professor (who just happened to also be a Church of Christ preacher) would have appreciated my M/M romance, so I did censor myself there. LOL (Now though, I might just go for it if I was to take any more such classes. I mean, I might not make the grades I'd like, but I would hope he would give me some constructive input on structure and the like. Which is a bigger concern to me at this point, honestly. -shrugs-) It is hard to be excited about writing something that isn't really what you want to be writing about.