writer's block

[sweetnpetite]

I've been suffering from writer's block.

If there was already a thread about this, I'm sorry. But I think it would make a great topic for conversation.

Do you get writers block?

What do you do to get past it?

Does you're sex life effect your writing?

everybody please post your experiences with writers block, weather you have a solution or not.

Thanks.

 

[cremebrulee]

Re:writers block

I started a similar topic and got some great replies.

https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169385

and this one


https://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169388



I also have been posting with some musicians on another site and
we have a thread going about writers block too.www.indiejam.net


hope these help!


~Creme

 

[snooper]

Do you get writers block?

Had it all my life. never wrote a word.

 

[MathGirl]

Re: Re: writer's block

Had it all my life. never wrote a word.

Well, welcome to the Author's Hangout. You're certainly in good company here.
MG

 

[reohoko]

I've been suffering from writer's block.

If there was already a thread about this, I'm sorry. But I think it would make a great topic for conversation.

Do you get writers block?

What do you do to get past it?

Does you're sex life effect your writing?

everybody please post your experiences with writers block, weather you have a solution or not.

Thanks.

Didn't read the rest of the responses, sorry.

I get writer's block every time I have a deadline, everytime I have more than one scheduled event in a week, and everytime anyone upsets me.

Usually I annoy myself further by making lists of things I am supposed to do, want to do and need to do. That NEVER helps.

I usually take a nice hot bath and decide never to do anything again. In a couple of hours I am back to writing, just the idea of doing "nothing" for the rest of my life always cheers me up.

My sex life never effects my writing nor my behavor. For some strange reason I can get it twice to three times a day and act like someone who hasn't gotten any in months, other times I can get it once a week and act like I am getting it 24/7. It's a thing I suppose. Being married makes you warped, if you haven't done it yet - don't

 

[Just_John1]

Absolutely.

I have suffered from writers block, couldn't finish a story but had to finish the one I was writing before I'd let myself write anything else. Sadly I posted it and THEN found some typos... when will I get and listen to an editor? It should pop up in a day or two I guess.

I've found that the volume and quality of my writing is inversely proportionate to the quality of my sex life.

 

[Lovepotion69]

I'm having writer's block right now. A change in scenery might help so I'm hoping I'll be all creative again after a weekend trip to visit a friend.

I don't have a sex life at the moment, absolutely nonexistent so nope, doubt that will affect my writing. LOL

 

[dr_mabeuse]

It's pretty silly to talk about writers' block before we even know what we're talking about. I've seen and experienced trouble writing plenty of times, but just dismissing it as "writers' block" is a cop out and a way of avoiding the problem.

The very first thing you've got to do is figure out what you're talking about. Do you mean:

(A) An inability to write any thing at all? A kind of psychic aphasia?

(B) The inability to write anything that you think is good enough? Fear of failure or embarrassment?

(C) The inability to think of anything to write about? Lack of interest?

(D) Inability to put thoughts into words?

(E) Temporary exhaustion?

(F) Story difficulties that you just can't seem to solve?

(G) lack of interest

(H) General depression

I mean, just to say you're suffering from "writers' block" doesn't mean anything except that you're not writing. Hey, I want to get laid but I'm not. I must be suffering from fuck block. Can anyone help me?

---dr.M.

 

[cremebrulee]

dr_m~

You left out apathy didn't you?
Oh, hell. I don't care anyway.
(attempt at humor)
(lame attempt)


Seriously tho~
For me it involves all of the above.

Is that writers' block?


~Creme

 

[Croctden]

I've got that too

Hey, I want to get laid but I'm not. I must be suffering from fuck block. Can anyone help me?

---dr.M.

No

 

[DurtGurl]

Physician, heal thyself.

Hey, I want to get laid but I'm not. I must be suffering from fuck block. Can anyone help me?

This from the man who coined the phrase, "Batchlor's Hand?"
MG

 

[DurtGurl]

Good grief!

What the hell's wrong with everybody? Some people are depressed, there's a lot of writer's block going around, some are both, and Dr Mabeuse seems to be suffering from wanker's colic. Let's all go out for a pizza and beer. It's on me.
MG

 

[cremebrulee]

YES PLEASE

Beer is my friend, and since you're buyin...
I am SO THERE!

*burp*

oopsie, 'scuse me.


~Creme

 

[TheEarl]

SNP: Try changing your writing habit. eg. If you usually work on a computer, then try writing on pen and pad, change the music you listen to, etc. It sometimesworks for me. Not at the moment of course...

The Earl

 

[Gabriel_Lee]

Originally posted by DurtGurl
Let's all go out for a pizza and beer. It's on me.

Only if you take a shower first and then I would be honoured to have you as a plate.

Writers block? I just get a disinclination to write sometimes. It's just staring at the page and not putting the words that I need into my head, not inability so much as inertia.

Is there such a thing as readers block? How would it manifest itself?

GL

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Writng can be very, very difficult sometimes, and we all get stuck. All I was suggesting is that instead of just saying you're having writers' block and letting it go at that, you try to get a little more specific about just what the problem is.

It's like if you were to go to the doctor and say, "Help me, Doc. I don't feel well." He looks you over and says, "Yep. You're suffering from sickness. Nothing I can do."

I've never had writer's block. I've had times when everything I wrote was crap, when I had deadline anxiety, when I was just too depressed to write, when I didn't care if I never write anything again, when I got stuck in something that was beyond my ability, when I couldn't think of anything to write about, when I'd written myself into a corner, or when I just didn't feel like it. But I don't consider any of those 'writers' block'.

Or, like Creme says, somethimes you just feel wrung dry and no matter how you squeeze nothing more comes out.

But it you really want help, we've got to know more about just what the problem is.

If you just want to commiserate, that's okay too.


---dr.M.

 

[reohoko]

Don't worry.... Be happy...

*falls on the floor laughing

Nah, writer's block does not need an a full diagnositics, you know, no need to open the hood and check the engine.

It's a state of mind, a state of being not quite in one's my mind.

It is like the sun behind the clouds and the locked door.

Solutions or time can cure all.

And besides if it is a locked door... I ALWAYS recommend a sledge hammer.

Trust me... HOT BUBBLE BATH!!! Bubble baths can make everything better. If not, I could always recite poetry... I prefer Emily Dickonson, Edgar Allen Poe, etc.

Because I could not stop for death..
He kindly stopped for me

hmm ok not that one.. hold on,

I'm nobody, who are you?
Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of us,
don't tell
they'd banish us you know.....

and so on.

 

[cremebrulee]

Or, like Creme says, somethimes you just feel wrung dry and no matter how you squeeze nothing more comes out.

Wow, did I say that? Cool!


If you have a definition of writers block, dr_m, would you please be so kind as to share it? I think that'd help. I do undertand what you're saying about needing more info if someone's asking for help. Great analogy.

Commiseration is actually one of the things that helps me most when having a lack of creativity. I also listen to others' music in my own genre (whatever that might be~the verdict is still out) and can sometimes take a phrase and turn it into a personal feeling which sometimes results in verse.

~Creme

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Do you get writers block?

What do you do to get past it?

Does you're sex life effect your writing?

Yes, sometimes I do. I can't even write a grocery list. It passes. Trust me.

Milk, butter, bread, dildo, batteries, pasta, eggs, toothpaste...

Believe it or no, but I like to look in the dictionary! I find some unusual word, like "ravage", and then I try to think of a cool title with that word... "Ravaging Rheba". Then I think about this person, and what could possibly be happening to her to justify that title, and I write down a short description of the story, like the kind you find on the back of a book, and once I'm that far, things usually roll on by themselves.

Does my sex life affect my writing? Honey, if I had a sex life, I wouldn't have TIME to write! My hubby lives on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, and I see him a few times a year - is it such a wonder how I have 85 submissions so far???

 

[sweetnpetite]

I feel stuck on a particular part, but also apathetic. ALmost as if I've lost the will to right. Like my muse went for a coffee break. ANd things where going so well....

 

[cremebrulee]

nature?

Sweet,
One thing that's helped me a lot is to get away from my current surroundings. If your muse has taken a big ol coffee break, you should just stop fighting it and take one too. I head out to the trout streams. The water is clear like it is in my dreams, you can see the fish swimming & playing. I've been takng time forcing myself to sit and do NOTHING. If a thought pops into my head I try to rid myelf of it entirely. I listen... to the wind, to the birds. Get outside if you can. Take pen and paper with you. LEAVE IT IN THE CAR and get out and find a quiet place to just "be". Or, go to a downtown area and sit and watch people. I have written a couple of songs that way, people (strangers) can be inspiring.

Hope this drivel helps...
I am heading out to the woods right now.


~Creme

 

[dr_mabeuse]

There's some shrink who specializes in treating creative artists, especially writers (who seem to need his services more than visual artists or performing artists. Surprised?) and I stole that diagnostic advice from him. But it makes sense anyhow. I mean, consider: your car won't go. What do you do? Give it a bubble bath?

No. You try to find out just what's wrong, or at least try and find where the problem is: the starter? the engine? pine tree deodorizer? Sporty mag wheel covers? Or maybe it won't run because you just don't feel like getting in and going anywhere.

From what Sweetnpetite says, it sounds like she's suddenly lost interest in what she was writing. Okay. I've been there, and I can offer some things that I've done.

Like quit.

No, really. If the part is uninteresting, then maybe you've got a plot problem. Or maybe it's too hard to write and you've got a technical problem, like writing a scene with a lot of people and keeping them all straight. Maybe you need to just gloss over the part, or maybe you should set the whole piece aside and write something else for a while. Or just get out there and abuse some substances for awhile.

Maybe you have no idea what the problem is and need help with that, or maybe you just want to vent. That's okay too. But just to say you're suffering from the block is tantamount to saying "I can't write." And how do you deal with that?

---dr.M.

 

[reohoko]

well, see I am really very simple minded. When the car won't go I just kick it and call a mechanic....and see if he wants a bubble bath.

*giggle

 

[Mazora]

I've been suffering from writer's block.

Do you get writers block?

What do you do to get past it?

Does you're sex life effect your writing?

Thanks.

There's a concoction that I make in my blender when all else fails. Among other things it includes kelp, tiger's milk, kombucha broth and wheat grass! Does it work? Of course not! But half way through the blending of it I tell myself that writing has gotta be better than drinking the fool thing...and my mind gets as clear as a ringing bell.

Good luck! I really think it's a bit of the old mind over matter two-step. First you ask yourself if this could be writer's block and then you ask yourself what if it is? And after that it all goes south by itself!

And I think that my sex life works in tandem with my writing and my writing with it.

Mazora

 

[cremebrulee]

I was just thinking...

...about my sex life and how it connects with my creativity.
I write best as result of good sex or sexual tension sometimes.
If I meet someone that makes me crazy (horny, hungry, aching for their touch...) that in itself can usually inspire me.

More thoughts.


Dr_Mabeuse~ You are a brilliant and helpful soul. I appreciate you greatly. Thanks for making me think.
~Creme