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Meister
1300 points
25/F/utica, Indiana
Join Date: Aug 2005 |
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I've been struggling with writer's block for a couple of years now. It had become such a problem that when I sit down to write, or add to writing I could only manage to get a sentence or a paragraph and stare at the screen for hours.
I finally realized the culprit, and it made me kind of sad. I'd stopped imagining the stories... playing out scenes in my mind with the characters. I was trying to write with my mind as blank as an unused canvas. I need to find that place in my mind again where everything in reality is blurred and my characters can come to life.
Sometimes I just can't focus on anything at all, and I'll just sit there.. be thinking about something... then it disappears and I'm left wondering "what the hell was I thinking about?"
It's a bang your head against the wall moment for me right now... I do not want another headache though. *sigh* I think I need to start getting more sleep. I used to get something like over 10 hours, now I'm barely getting 6. Ugh.... *whine*
Current Music: Stay With Me by Libera
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annski729
Pajama Girl
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107848 points | It sounds really strange, but sometimes if I have to do a creative writing assignment involves dialouge I'll not only act it out in my head, but I'll act it out by saying the words aloud. Try to picture your writing as a script to a movie. Explain the characters (whether it's based on real life or not) as you would see them acting in a movie.
That way, when someone else sits down and reads your piece of writing (whatever it may be) he can really picture it in his mind. |
catatonic_chey
Meister
1300 points | Well that's exactly what I always used to do.. picture it like a movie. It was always very entertaining. It just seems to be more difficult than it used to be. I do know what the problem is. There are just too many other things to do now. A couple years ago when I didn't have anything.. haha.. there wasn't much else to do except write and draw.
I suppose it's very strange in a way that you can gain something big and lose something big at the same time. |
annski729
Pajama Girl
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107848 points | I understand. If you have a lot on your mind then it makes it difficult to concentrate. And sometimes you don't have the time to just sit down and relax a bit.  |
crumpets
Über-Meister
1546 points | if i'm writing poetry and especially if i'm writing song lyrics i use a technique of just doing a stream of consciousness style ramble. The idea is just to get writing, it doesn't really matter what, you can always edit later. so i just make a rule that my hand has to be moving and i've got to just spit out words, whatever comes into my head, even if it's "i can't think of anything to write" just keep writing that over and over and at least you end up with something.... i've seriousley came up with some great fragments and ideas and lyrics working this way  |
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