The Phantom Poster
Feb 22 2003, 08:34 PM
Yuppp.. I got it...
I need to get out of it...
Anyone got any ideas?
Loopy Loupie
Feb 24 2003, 01:17 PM
I tend to find I get writers block for months then suddenly I thinkof loads of stuff to write. Though thats probaly not very helpful for you as I don't have a deadline for my work
What are you trying to write maybe I can help
Rod O'West
Mar 1 2003, 11:35 PM
Apologies if I'm repeating someone else's advice (having skipped over some of the string) but, getting back to the original question about Writers' Block...
1. Writers' Block happens to everyone who writes. It can sometimes be cured by giving oneself a good telling off about sitting in front of the blamk screen/paper, either gazing into space or indulging in fantasies about Anne-Marie (or, in her vase, about me).
2. Always keep a notebook with you, and something with which you can write in it. Ideas come to one at the most unexpected moments (I seem to get my best ones in the shower, which makes the notebook a bit soggy) and they disappear just as quickly/unexpectedly/annoyingly.
3. Keep all inspirational material in the same place, so that you can dig through and find something to write about whenever struck with intellectual inertia.
4. Never throw anything away that you have written. What seemed like utter disallowed word ten years ago...
5. Write SOMETHING!! It is far easier to go back and correct something than it is to start from scratch. In other words, if your creativity has ground to an inspirational halt on one writing project, simply switch to something else until the ideas suddenly gell on the first one, as they will eventually. Believe me, they will.
6. Or go down the pub for a while, there either to discuss (be prepared for frivolous responses - they too could be useful) the work you wanted to do or to forget it... but take your notebook with you.
7. DON'T PANIC!!!
8. Secure Anne-Marie's co-operation in fulfilling that fantasy.