Trying to Start Writing Again After a Long Hiatus

As my title suggests, I’m trying to get back into writing. My biggest challenges right now are finding time, finding privacy, and avoiding distraction.

When I was in college and writing for my creative writing classes, it was pretty easy for me to get in the zone and start cranking out pages. Lately, though I just can’t seem to get my head in it.

When I manage to find time and privacy to write, I can’t get myself to focus on the task. I try to think of what to get started with, but that blank page just stares back at me defiantly and anything I try to type, I just delete because it all sounds like garbage when I read it back.

If anyone else has been able to get started again after a long hiatus, I’d really like to hear how you did so.