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Has it ever happened to you? You are working on your latest piece of writing and then you just start drawing a blank? You try to go back and see where your story lost you and you can't find it..

Well, this has been affecting me for the last 5 years, sometimes for spans as long as a year at a time. A novel I started in 1997 is still not finished because of this block. Does anyone have any sugestions or cures for writers block?
 
this has been addressed before but I am not computer savy enough to find the old thread.

My suggestions:

1. Keep several stories going at once. If you draw a blank on one go to another and rather than creatively write edit or make msall revisions. Often getting back down to the nuts abd bolts of words, grammar and punctuation will clear the block from your head.

2. Don't force it, if you can't write get up, get away do something else, the longer you sit before a screen the greater the frustration grows and the less likely it becomes you will get anything accomplished.

3. Read. If you are blocked read something by an author you like. Get into the flow of thier words, their story, their characters. Often I find myself able to get back into my own groove when I just take the time to appreciate someone else who was in theirs.

4. Try some simple writing exercises. Describe a flower or a sunset or a woman. Just get into the description and don't worry about any thing else. There are several other simple writing exercises that might help you break your block.

Hope some of this helps.

-Colly
 
Thank you for the advice, but those are indeed all things I've heard, and tried, before.

I think it stems to more than just my writing ability, maybe caused by emotional turmoil *shrug* No clue.. Thanks anyways :)
 
Well thank you Minsue, I've already gotten myself an avatar.. though I plan on fixing up a better on in the near future.. this will do for now..

Thank you for the links, there is some good advice in there indeed. I shall read through them more thoroughly on a day where my comprehension is a bit higher.. stone tired right now :p Take care =)
 
MY english teacher always told us
" when in trouble or in doubt,
run in circles scream and shout "
I'm not sure it really works but it always makes me laugh and that normally does.:nana:
 
gothgodess said:
MY english teacher always told us
" when in trouble or in doubt,
run in circles scream and shout "
I'm not sure it really works but it always makes me laugh and that normally does.:nana:
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Well thank you :) And welcome to Lit :)Or at least welcome to the forums.
 
I hope it helps, I find that stressing out about it just makes it harder to beat. Have you tried talking over what you have already written with some one else, Someone may have already sujested this but hey the oldies are the best. I find that getting some one else to read my stuff out loud help. It leaves youre mind free to think.
I hope you find youre thread soon.:kiss: :kiss:
 
tolyk said:
Has it ever happened to you? You are working on your latest piece of writing and then you just start drawing a blank? You try to go back and see where your story lost you and you can't find it..

Well, this has been affecting me for the last 5 years, sometimes for spans as long as a year at a time. A novel I started in 1997 is still not finished because of this block. Does anyone have any sugestions or cures for writers block?
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I've found myself most keyed up to write after class, either my English or Sociology classes work for me. So,

Take a class, evening or whatever fits your schedule. It gives you a deadline, and makes you think about writing.

Good luck,
HomerPindar
 
Put yourself in the right mood

I find that I write certain stuff when I'm in a particular mood. When I'm lamenting with poor poor pitiful me I tend to write romance stuff, I guess writing about the emotion I wish I were getting from the S/O, while she screams "you asshole" repeatedly. When I'm really happy about something I tend to be a little more frivolous and adventuresome, typically toy stories. When I really wacked I come up with pretty wacked shit. If I start a story when I;'m being really out there I know I have to finish it then, if not getting that out there again enough to write can be a challenge.

If you're struggling with a story, or a novel and it has a certain mood to it, you probably lost it when your mood changed due to some outside influence IMHACUO (in my humble and completely uninformed opinion). Try to remember what put you in the mood to write in the first place. Then try to get in that mood again and the writing will flow. Its real hard to force yourself to be happy but if your baseline mood was sadness, paranoia, those are typically easier to manufacture.

Of course, then, there are happy pills... better living through chemistry? Probably not a good idea.

Trying to be helpful

JJ1
 
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Well, thats the thing.. I started the novel so long ago.. and have had so much change since then.. I am now on anti-depressants, and I honestly think I wrote better while I was depressed.. I just don't know.. Its a lot to think about really. The thought that I'm a better writer when I'm depressed is in itself kind of depressing :p I don't want to go back there... even if it would help me finish my novel and create the wonderful world that I had started..
 
I had this problem a few weeks back. I took a week off, started obsessing about throat fucking various women. Then, poof, one day I started writing again.

But, don't take too much time off. I try to write every day, if I don't, I lose the rythm of writing.

See also:

Writer's Block
 
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tolyk said:
Well, thats the thing.. I started the novel so long ago.. and have had so much change since then.. I am now on anti-depressants, and I honestly think I wrote better while I was depressed.. I just don't know.. Its a lot to think about really. The thought that I'm a better writer when I'm depressed is in itself kind of depressing :p I don't want to go back there... even if it would help me finish my novel and create the wonderful world that I had started..
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whoa there sweetie don't drop the happy pills! Promise me that! please. I know I'm nobody to you but when i read your post it actually scared me ( thats not an easy thing to do). I've been there done that and it nearly finnished me off. You need to get youreself into a happy place. Once you are the writting will start to come again. I'm sure you are a fab writter in both frames of mind its just that your writing will be very different. If you feeling that bad get soem help honey, I know its hard but find someone who can talk things through with you and find out whats happening.

I'm sorry i don't know where she came from.
I will now go and burn my agony aunt hat so this never happens again.
Sorry.:( :confused: :D
 
Nothing to burn

Ggodess...

Good advice, appropriate response for sure. I was only suggesting a manufactured and temporary mood change. I'm always willing to listen and help a friend in need, and everyones' a friend until the give me reason not to think so.

Don't burn the auntie hat, everyone needs an auntie.

JJ1
 
ok I'll just tuck it safely out of sight for now:kiss:

I wasn't having a go its just something that gets me all fired up.
I'm a very passionate person sorry.:D
 
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whoa there sweetie don't drop the happy pills! Promise me that! please. I know I'm nobody to you but when i read your post it actually scared me ( thats not an easy thing to do). I've been there done that and it nearly finnished me off. You need to get youreself into a happy place. Once you are the writting will start to come again. I'm sure you are a fab writter in both frames of mind its just that your writing will be very different. If you feeling that bad get soem help honey, I know its hard but find someone who can talk things through with you and find out whats happening.

I'm sorry i don't know where she came from.
I will now go and burn my agony aunt hat so this never happens again.
Sorry.:( :confused: :D
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I wouldn't of dropped the 'happy pills', it was just me expressing how I feel on the subject. Thank you for the advice though, nice to know people care, even strangers. (especially goth strangers :p)

I guess what I have to do is just learn how to write all over again in this new frame of mind. Basically just forget what I used to do.. and just pick up a pen I suppose.. *ponder* I'll give that a try and see where it gets me..
 
I've had the most persistent case of writers block for more months then I can recall. It IS very frustrating. I have several stories in limbo. One story I went back to, and discovered not only was it unfinished, but I stopped in mid-WORD!
And of course I've no clue what it was to be about.

The thing for me right now, is that I fear I'm just too content. There's nothing really driving me right now.

Or it could be that I have to do so much mandatory writing for my job EW! I hope thats not it!


But I know that the writing will come back. It always does.
I drag out my stories now and then and re read them, edit a little of what I have, hoping that it will spark something. Some times a paragraph will race out but then - nothing.

Here's another idea for partially completed stories. Find a few people to read them. Get feedback on what you have so far. Sometimes that can goad the creative juices to flow at least a little bit or get you thinking more about where the story needs to go.

Patience Bryce
 
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Tolyk, your AV looks like joy're playing a video game. Then again, it IS called a "joystick"...
 
Svenskaflicka said:
Tolyk, your AV looks like joy're playing a video game. Then again, it IS called a "joystick"...
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Why thank you for noticing "the one whom's name must not be abreviated to four letters" :D I had one of me wearing a pair of sunglasses, but a few friends requested me to switch back to this one *chuckles*
 
i liked the one with shades. Please except my apologies for going loco on you I miss read your post but even strange strangers care about you thats got to be a good feeling.



Or maybe its just scary hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm:confused:
 
gothgodess said:
i liked the one with shades. Please except my apologies for going loco on you I miss read your post but even strange strangers care about you thats got to be a good feeling.



Or maybe its just scary hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm:confused:
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No apologies nessasary :) That wasn't exactly written in a way for people who don't know me well to know that it was just me rambling. Since noone on this site really knows me all that well yet, I guess I should've left a sidenote to that one :) I'd of made the same conclusions from reading a post like that, and probably would've thought the person was seeking pity or sympathy *chuckle* I'm not, I just want my fricken writers block to go away *laugh*


And naw, its not scary ;) Yet......... :p :kiss:
 
Tolyk

I too have a hard time writing when I am in a great mood. Too much other great stuff I feel like doing.

When I am stuck in a story, I go to a very public place like the mall food court or the airport and I write with pen on paper. I skip around to a scene I really am excited about. Once I get something down it is easier to fill in the holes and edit when I type it.

Then again I have been stuck in one story since December.
 
Just a sidenote I thought I'd throw in.. I always write with pen and paper. The only story that I wrote on a computer only was my story that I have on here, and that was numerous years ago and was actually done as a writer's block exercise. I kept it due to the fact that I was rather pleased with how it turned out for just an exersice.

Thank you all for your replies. I have in fact tried most of the cures recommended. But I shall try and try again despite any obstacles that come in my way.

Thanks all again.
 
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