Writers Block

[Seil]

There's something to be said abot writers block. Whether one is proud or bashful, it ends up becoming the immovable object. It seem all one has to do is apply the right amount of force.

I'm having a bit of trouble being that force. My poetry is lacking for it. Any suggestions?

[Kim]

There's something to be said abot writers block. Whether one is proud or bashful, it ends up becoming the immovable object. It seem all one has to do is apply the right amount of force.

I'm having a bit of trouble being that force. My poetry is lacking for it. Any suggestions?

My solution is a double-edged sword. Listening to music, reading, or watching a show always helps give me ideas for stuff I'm writing, but then I have to stop doing that to do the actual writing, and I'm not very good at pulling myself away.

[Green Spanner]

When I was writing my novel, I got some pretty epic writers block. You know, the kind where you know exactly where you want the story to go, but no idea as to how.

Based on what 'cured' me, my advice is to get out there, go for a walk in the country, go places you wouldn't usually go. That kind of thing. Seeing new things tends to get the creative juices flowing.

Of course, every writer is different, so that might just work for me.

Also, it might be different for poetry.

Man, this advice is sounding more useless by the second...

[Krylo]

Most 'professional' writers that I've read talk about writer's block suggest that you continue writing anyway. Yeah, it'll suck, but it's the best way to power through your block, and then you can go back and fix it once your creative juices are flowing again.

[Magic_Marker]

Most 'professional' writers that I've read talk about writer's block suggest that you continue writing anyway. Yeah, it'll suck, but it's the best way to power through your block, and then you can go back and fix it once your creative juices are flowing again.

A good friend of mine has a grandmother who qualifies as "professional" writer, someone who is published and makes enough off her books to live. My friend tells me that she viewed writer's block as a crutch. Everday she would write 5 pages. No matter what. It didn't matter if those pages sucked, pages could always be re-written, but 5 pages needed to go out that day.

I never could keep the that many daily pages, after a certain point I run out things to say but maybe this advice could help you. *shrug*

[Fifthfiend]

Drugs.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Listening to music or walks is usually what helps me over come writer's block, try that.

If it doesn't work then try rereading all of your poems.

[Magic_Marker]

rad-killing unicorn motorcycles.

Okay I've seen this meme around but google fu is failing me.

What in the hell does that mean!?

[Aerozord]

There's something to be said abot writers block. Whether one is proud or bashful, it ends up becoming the immovable object.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v135/aerozord/2009-01-02.jpg

[Mirai Gen]

More of a "writer's maze" really.

You can get through, it's just a bitch.

[bluestarultor]

Okay I've seen this meme around but google fu is failing me.

What in the hell does that mean!?

It's a word filter over a word for illicit substances starting with a "d." ;)



Poetry is a tough one. Really, the best you can do is go out and look for inspiration. Heck, the sestina I have bumping around the subforum was inspired by something I saw on the back of a truck in front on me, in fact, just the word "silhouette," and it snowballed from there. It didn't even end up the way I'd planned to make it because it just sort of took its own direction as I kept typing.

Walk somewhere with something interesting as a feature or something interesting going on. Got a skating rink? See if maybe something there catches your eye while people are skating. Got a greenhouse of some sort? See if maybe you get inspired by an exotic plant. You just have to figure out somewhere to go that might contain inspiration.

[Magic_Marker]

It's a word filter over a word for illicit substances starting with a "d." ;)


Ah, I see.

Dicks.

[Fifthfiend]

Okay I've seen this meme around but google fu is failing me.

We made it up, right here on this forum.

I would probably have taken the word filter off by now but OH HEY, YEAH

[synkr0nized]

It's already tripped up a couple of people. for example in response to a YouTube video that lacked any rad-killing unicorn 'cycles.

[DarkDrgon]

i think it was Stephen Kings book on writing that said that whenever he had writers block, he would kill a character.

Doesnt apply to poetry, but thats what I do for my short stories i set in my D&D universe.

[bluestarultor]

i think it was Stephen Kings book on writing that said that whenever he had writers block, he would kill a character.

Doesnt apply to poetry, but thats what I do for my short stories i set in my D&D universe.

That's Stephen King, though. His books are horror stories, i.e. stories in which people generally drop like flies anyway.

That would be like saying whenever Meyer gets writer's block, she has Bella trip and fall into something or swoon over Edward.

[Mirai Gen]

I don't think he actually said that. I've read On Writing pretty extensively and I'm pretty sure if he said that it's being quoted out of context.

Now if you said Dean Koontz, then I'd lol.

[DarkDrgon]

i havent read it in a while, so I might be remembering it from another source.

[Funka Genocide]

Writer's block is an illusion. It's a trick of the mind. The truth is your writing isn't any different under it's ephemeral influence than at any other time. It's just a perceived difficulty that you can overcome by, quite simply, putting pen to paper and doing what you always do.