How To

[doormouse]

How do you guys get over word blockage? Writer's block?

Somedays I know what I want to write, but can't for the life of me think of the word I'm looking for. Not even the thesaurus will help me.

Like today, I was working on a poem. I wanted to describe depth. Think I could think of 'depth'? LOL

When you're stuck on finding a word, what do you do to help?

 

[Liar]

When you're stuck on finding a word, what do you do to help?

I pout.

It doesn't help much, but that's what I do.

 

[Angeline]

How do you guys get over word blockage? Writer's block?

Somedays I know what I want to write, but can't for the life of me think of the word I'm looking for. Not even the thesaurus will help me.

Like today, I was working on a poem. I wanted to describe depth. Think I could think of 'depth'? LOL

When you're stuck on finding a word, what do you do to help?

I use a thesaurus.

 

[PatCarrington]

i have 3 or 4 beers.

 

[Angeline]

i have 3 or 4 beers.

So you may not come up with another word, but you don't care? Is that the idea?

 

[Tathagata]

i have 3 or 4 beers.

3 or 4??

rookie

 

[Angeline]

3 or 4??

rookie

you're just pissy cause the game was rained out.

oops it wasn't...but it might as well be, huh?

 

[Reltne]

I don't consider one word that I can't think of as writer's block. It is frustrating, but I think of it as just early "Oldtimer's" disease.

 

[PatCarrington]

So you may not come up with another word, but you don't care? Is that the idea?

more or less.

it's a win/win situation.

 

[PatCarrington]

3 or 4??

rookie

you're not dreaming about a world series up in Boston again, are you?

you guys up there have stamina, i'll give you that.

 

[Tathagata]

you're just pissy cause the game was rained out.

oops it wasn't...but it might as well be, huh?

I'm taking bids on gettin Derek Lowe shock treatment
cus ya know. otherwise some one's gonna shoot the bastard...

Lowe.........
that's not an Irish name right??
Ah jesus thank god

 

[Tathagata]

you're not dreaming about a world series up in Boston again, are you?

you guys up there have stamina, i'll give you that.

yer not a Yankees fan are ya??
ahhhh Pat
ya have to win it by honor , purity, and dirt digging and being hungry.
Not because you can buy all the good players on the market.

in Boston we quote Ghandi:

" When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always."

thus the " Evil Empire" will fall.......

we are patient
because
we are right






scotch anyone??

 

[PatCarrington]

yer not a Yankees fan are ya??
ahhhh Pat
ya have to win it by honor , purity, and dirt digging and being hungry.
Not because you can buy all the good players on the market.

in Boston we quote Ghandi:

" When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always."

thus the " Evil Empire" will fall.......

we are patient
because
we are right

scotch anyone??

ahhhhh.....the soft cushions of philosophy.

 

[Tathagata]

ahhhhh.....the soft cushions of philosophy.

ease the hemmheroids of reality
; )

 

[The Mutt]

The Cardinals' magic number is 2.

 

[Angeline]

I'm taking bids on gettin Derek Lowe shock treatment
cus ya know. otherwise some one's gonna shoot the bastard...

Lowe.........
that's not an Irish name right??
Ah jesus thank god

They just got a run. Think they can come back?

lol.

 

[Tathagata]

They just got a run. Think they can come back?

lol.

can ya see this??

~hand gesture~

go back to joisey

 

[Angeline]

can ya see this??

~hand gesture~

go back to joisey

!!!!!

I'll have you know I always liked the Phillies, bud. That's an even more hopeless proposition than well...never mind. (It could be worse...we could be in Chicago.)

 

[Tathagata]

!!!!!

I'll have you know I always liked the Phillies, bud. That's an even more hopeless proposition than well...never mind. (It could be worse...we could be in Chicago.)

LOL

~kissey face make up stuff~
yeah like i could be mad at you


ummmmm
Chicago may draw the ire of a certain Ms Blackwood
although as i recall she wasn't Cubs fan either
She may have been a Mets fan...

 

[Honey123]

How do you guys get over word blockage? Writer's block?

Somedays I know what I want to write, but can't for the life of me think of the word I'm looking for. Not even the thesaurus will help me.

Like today, I was working on a poem. I wanted to describe depth. Think I could think of 'depth'? LOL

When you're stuck on finding a word, what do you do to help?

If I am on-line, I ask a friend. We then throw words out there until it's the one I needed!

IF that doesn't work...then I'd go with what Liar said and pout!

 

[The Mutt]

When I get stuck writing, I write something else for a few minutes; a quick description of walking to the store, a person I saw yesterday, etc. Sometimes things are seen more clearly from the corner of the eye.

 

[BlueskyBeauty]

it seems when i lose my muse, i write about green guts, ass slapping, or bugs

if i could have
but just one wish,
i'd be a bug,
your foot could squish.

 

[The Mutt]

it seems when i lose my muse, i write about green guts, ass slapping, or bugs

if i could have
but just one wish,
i'd be a bug,
your foot could squish.

If I could make
my wishes real,
I'd throw myself
beneath your heel.

 

[BlueskyBeauty]

If I could make
my wishes real,
I'd throw myself
beneath your heel.

well that certainly puts things into perspective!

 

[darkmaas]

If I may return to PatCarrington's solution to a tightening of the verbal sphincter;

i have 3 or 4 beers.

I am reminded of an interview with Leonard Cohen where he bemoaned the fact that he rarely wrote a poem in one sitting.

"Some of my poems are four or six draft poems ... most are twenty drafts or more."

Now personally, after three or four draft beer I am still lucid and reasonably articulate, but after twenty, (even allowing that a draft beer in this little part of the planet is only 6 to 8 ounces), I am certainly at a loss for words. So lift a glass (make mine a double please) to Leonard and damn the thesaurus.