Writer's Block

Haven't written anything proper in a couple of years, but when I am blocked...

I'll just start writing some stream-of-consciousness blathering. I usually stumble onto the issue causing the block. I do this in handwriting and not typing. Something about the tactile experience of ink to paper clears my mind more than images on a screen.

If it's all nonsense, oh well I wrote something. Crumple it up and throw it away. <Shrug> Hope this helps and your muse stops being so fleeting, lure her in with cookies!
 
The best way I get over my "writers block" is go out and have fun with my friends the entire weekend. Nothing gets the creative ideas flowing like partying with my friends and meeting random people. :D works every time :dance:
I just kinda let go and forget my "writers block"
 
Mindless tasks my friend. I mean I really don't ever have "writer's block" but sometimes I have to come up with something specific for someone in a short while to go with their channel. In these times I can't wait for inspiration. So you clean, or you take a walk, I do something that gets my mind in a left brain kind of territory. It is usually in the middle of this that a melody or a guitar riff hits me and whammo, we're in biz.
 
Also, I'd recommend reading Hemingway's, Old Man and the Sea. (if you haven't, or re-read it)

A very good minimalist approach to writing, I think only 80-100 pages on my copy and the text is HUGE. I don't want to spoil it for you if you haven't read it, but it's just writing, boiled down and refined. I blew through it the last time I read it in about an hour or so...

Best of luck friend.

~Dylan
 
Writers block is never about not being able to "think" of something good to write. It's about not "wanting" to write about something or anything at the moment. You could pick any subject and there's thousands of great topics you "could" write about .. but you dont want to. I don't want to write about this. I dont want to write about that. I dont want to admit that I dont want to write about anything because I feel like I should be writing.
It's like when you go grocery shopping then later that night stand in front of the fridge complaining that there's nothing to eat ... it's because you're not actually hungry .. admit it. LOL

The secret is to just pick a topic .. any topic .. and write about it. If you don't know enough about it, research while taking notes, then start writing your rough draft and move on to polishing it. The first topic you come across and think .. I dont want to write about this .. stop and write about it anyway.

Try not to use this same strategy in regards to my refrigerator example. It only results in mass quantities of midnight nachos and a wardrobe upgrade.
 
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