%*%#%^**($# Writer's block

[Angellica1612]

How do you cope???

 

[Cruel2BKind]

Cry and eat chocolate.

I've been gaining weight lately.... hm...

 

[Angellica1612]

Not helping....I already did those things. Together and separately. Next??

 

[PennLady]

Re-read something by yourself or someone else. Read something by someone else, perhaps in the genre you want to write. Take a walk.

 

[RedMonkeyButt]

Type out a conversation with yourself. It generally helps me, even though it kind of disturbs me at the same time... >.>

 

[Angellica1612]

Re-read something by yourself or someone else. Read something by someone else, perhaps in the genre you want to write. Take a walk.

Type out a conversation with yourself. It generally helps me, even though it kind of disturbs me at the same time... >.>

I'll try reading something, that might work. Thanks, Lady P

RedMonkeyButt, that one scares me a little. What if I lie to myself?

 

[RedMonkeyButt]

RedMonkeyButt, that one scares me a little. What if I lie to myself?

If you're writing fiction you're already lying to yourself.

Generally, I ask myself questions in italics, and then answer myself in regular type.

What does he look like? Describe him for me.
Blah blah and there's hair.

Describe what the hair feels like.
*squick*hair*squick*

Was that a tail? Seriously, a freaking tail?!
..........and so forth

I can at least make myself laugh, but I generally try to make the writing longer and longer. It's almost never about what I was trying to write in the first place. If I'm having trouble mixing pain and sex, I might just talk to myself about the shapes of clouds, or my favorite car, or something along those lines. You get the idea.

When this doesn't work, I read stuff in the same genre I'm trying to write hoping it knocks something loose.

Or you could always try to beat it into submission. Use a different color and write until it comes along and delete the junk later. That's what editing is for. Just don't forget what color you started with or it might get interesting...

 

[Angellica1612]

I see...I think. I'll need to ponder this.

 

[lovecraft68]

Catch a good buzz and give it a shot. It's worked for me in the past. Once you take some time to clean up the typo's the next day, you may be surprised with how well you flowed in a "relaxed state"

If nothing else? well hell, you caught a good buzz!

 

[TxRad]

How do you cope???

Step away from the computer, go open a beer and walk outside for a few minutes. Finish beer, walk inside if you're not frozen to the porch. If you're frozen to the porch, I hope you brought your cell phone so you can call someone. If not then writers block is the least of your worries. Problem solved.

Glad to be of help.

Now quit being a baby, pull up the big girl panties, and whack those keys.

 

[Cruel2BKind]

You were asking how I cope, not how I get back on track

To get back on track, I read/watch/play other mediums. I play video games, watch movies, read books. Most of my stories I can trace back to a book or movie that I got the idea from.

I don't plagiarize, but by watching movies I can get a single concept to go off of. After playing Dead Island, I got my idea for a story set in a zombie apocalypse. After reading 'the windup girl' I had the idea of a future full of genetically altered people who are second-class citizens and could be bought and sold. Hell, I got the idea for my most recent story by reading 'the count of Monte Cristo', but the idea I took from that novel was JUST the idea of writing a journal while in captivity for a falsely accused crime.

Just take a break from erotica, in regular media, all sorts of plot bunnies arise.

 

[lovecraft68]

Now quit being a baby, pull up the big girl panties, and whack those keys.

Hey, what's wrong with you? She's writing erotica, it's pull down the panties.

And even if it doesn't help her write it will help me to envision her typing with her panties around her ankles.

 

[TxRad]

Hey, what's wrong with you? She's writing erotica, it's pull down the panties.

And even if it doesn't help her write it will help me to envision her typing with her panties around her ankles.

Panties pulled up tight in a front wedgie can do wonders for her outlook also.

Either way, it focuses the attention.

 

[Angellica1612]

Step away from the computer, go open a beer and walk outside for a few minutes. Finish beer, walk inside if you're not frozen to the porch. If you're frozen to the porch, I hope you brought your cell phone so you can call someone. If not then writers block is the least of your worries. Problem solved.

Glad to be of help.

Now quit being a baby, pull up the big girl panties, and whack those keys.

Hey, what's wrong with you? She's writing erotica, it's pull down the panties.

And even if it doesn't help her write it will help me to envision her typing with her panties around her ankles.

Tex - Now, why did that turn me on? Not frozen to the porch, winter kind of passed us by this year. But I probably do need a little discipline, so I humbly submit to you. Okay, no humbly, I'm eager.

Lovecraft - Best laugh of the day! Thanks for that. Now I'll be tempted to write that way. Might be a tad bit distracting though...

 

[lovecraft68]

Tex - Now, why did that turn me on? Not frozen to the porch, winter kind of passed us by this year. But I probably do need a little discipline, so I humbly submit to you. Okay, no humbly, I'm eager.

Lovecraft - Best laugh of the day! Thanks for that. Now I'll be tempted to write that way. Might be a tad bit distracting though...

Blatant double standard however, because if I said I was writing naked, people would be like ewww, burn the chair.

 

[Angellica1612]

Blatant double standard however, because if I said I was writing naked, people would be like ewww, burn the chair.

Not me, anyone writing naked is sexy

 

[lovecraft68]

Not me, anyone writing naked is sexy

I don't know about that, there's some pretty old guys on this site

 

[TxRad]

Why is my plot bunny brain kicking around a discipline session with an author in an office chair, with a spreader bar strapped to her ankles and the bar hooked under the rollers.

 

[lovecraft68]

And every time she stops typing the shock collar goes off?

 

[TxRad]

I don't know about that, there's some pretty old guys on this site

Hey! Ya young whippersnappers need to watch it. We may be old but we got experience.

 

[TxRad]

And every time she stops typing the shock collar goes off?

I was think more along the lines of a pair of vibrating eggs.

 

[Angellica1612]

Oh. Wow. Totally turned on now. Gotta go....write

 

[TxRad]

One writers block fixed.

That or there are some might busy fingers out there somewhere tonight.

 

[Angellica1612]

One writers block fixed.

That or there are some might busy fingers out there somewhere tonight.

Please write your plot bunny, please, please?

I'd rather read this one than write it, especially from you. I really love your stories.

 

[lovecraft68]

I was think more along the lines of a pair of vibrating eggs.

Well those are for when she is typing like a good girl. Want that orgasm? finish the story. Stop typing and....