you know what, i get the writer block too only it waits until I'm like six pages into a story I really like.
And... and that makes me sad. I never have a problem starting... I just can't finish anything.
you know what, i get the writer block too only it waits until I'm like six pages into a story I really like.
And... and that makes me sad. I never have a problem starting... I just can't finish anything.
"I just know that something good is going to happen."
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Jimmy, I think you should write a book about 2012 and the end of the world.
You want me to write "Chicken Little?"Originally Posted by obscurejude
Jimmy, I think you should write a book about 2012 and the end of the world.
It's been done, sir.
In Hemingway's case, the finished products were shit too.
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My problem is that I get too many ideas and never finish anything. A form of writers block.
I've been toying with voice recognition software that I can speak and it converts it into written word or using a mini recorder to get down ideas or even tell the tale to transcribe later. No easy answers. Just stick with it.
The dancer slows her frantic pace
In pain and desperation,
Her aching limbs and downcast face
Aglow with perspiration
Stiff as wire, her lungs on fire,
With just the briefest pause
The flooding through her memory,
The echoes of old applause.
She limps across the floor
And closes her bedroom door...
The writer stare with glassy eyes
Defies the empty page
His beard is white, his face is lined
And streaked with tears of rage.
Thirty years ago, how the words would flow
With passion and precision,
But now his mind is dark and dulled
By sickness and indecision
And he stares out the kitchen door
Where the sun will rise no more...
Some are born to move the world
To live their fantasies
But most of us just dream about
The things we'd like to be
Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it
For you, the blind who once could see
The bell tolls for thee...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIdUtyAKTFg"]YouTube - Rush - Losing It[/ame]
"The Constitution shall never be construed....to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms" (Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87)
I just had this horrible case of writer's block on this comic I'm writing. I had a point A and a point B but there was no little line in between (to use a horrible, shameful metaphor). But, what I realized is that when you get into that sort of dilemma, you usually have a bunch of subconscious assumptions about what that little line is going to look like. Find them and kill them.
Loud music also helps, at least for me!
Same here... The most I've written is 30 pages, and that was YEARS ago. I've got loads of stories to write, but they all just "stop".
Some are born to sweet delight,
some are born to the endless night.
This topic is ancient, but I feel the need to... sneak in.
I give this advice whenever someone is suffering writer's block.
Write anyway. Make each keystroke or penstroke deliberately, even if you feel like you're pushing a huge hunk of lead.
Half of what you write may be shit, but that means that somewhere along the line, the wall is broken and in pieces, and you can go back and rework the first piece.
My favorite music, discussions with my best friends, and House M.D. are usually my Writer's Block Breakers.
My first thought was
He Lied in every word
That hoary cripple
With malicious eye
Askance to watch the workings of his lie
not sure if this topic is still relevant or not. personally when i have a block i'll do a few different things depending on how i feel and what i can do.
wait - give it some time, give it some thought, just don't let it simmer on the back burner too long.
walk - try not thinking at all. clear your mind, clear your head.
write - i'll usually write notes, brain storm on what i want to write next but outside of how or where i write the rest of the story. no obligation to use any of it. or one thing i LOVE to do is write down how much the block frustrates me. i wouldn't personally suggesting blogging it, just paper and pen - personal connection between you and your fresh ink of anger.
I dont know if this will help but when I get writers block (n i write poetry so it may be a different kind of writers block) I find there are 2 ways to overcome it, one is go somewhere new, where new people are, put yourself in a situation different that ur used to, the other is when I write down every bit of semi interesting information that I see for a whole week and then try to string together all of those observations into something entertaining
dont know if that works for prose though...
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
Drink. Simple as that. I guess anything that distracts the impossible to please internal censor for a while will suffice but for me, have a drink with a pen and paper in easy reach - there's usually something there afterwards, might not be any good but sometimes anything is better than nothing and it's just about getting the wheel turning, no matter how slowly. Add music to taste.
I believe the technical term for that is "The Hemingway Solution"
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
I'm a little less cultured than that, I like to think of it as "The Bukowski Solution"
yes that is a better term for the ol' drinking for creativity methodI'm a little less cultured than that, I like to think of it as "The Bukowski Solution"
there are after all two hemingway solutions, one of them is the above and the otherSpoiler:
HA HA
I have no shame
if the worlds gonna end then let's get it over with, i got shit to do
these help me when i get blocked on whatever i'm working on.
http://www.joshharrison.net/oblique-strategies/
we may try to steal these quotes when writing, they're useful
“The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn’t real. I know that, and I also know that if I’m careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.”
the hardest thing for me in writing is opening up Open Office (my word processor) and looking at that blank page. I used to just stare at it for a very long time, trying to think of how i want to say what i want to say. looking at that blank page is the worst man. But once i get started, the words just tend to come. even if they completely suck, i've got to get it out on the page or it will never happen. don't expect to look back at your first draft and have the most awesome thing in the world written there. it's almost impossible. that is what the second draft is for. by the time you finish the third draft is when it should be looking really great. don't get discouraged by the blank page. start writing. and don't get discouraged by a shitty first draft. revise, revise, revise.
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