Writer's Block
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Sheila
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sharon.gmc
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Have you watched the movie, "Stranger than Fiction"? The character of Emma Thompson is a writer that has a writer's block. She didn't know how to kill her main character. The idea came one day when she was coming out of the grocery. A seller of apple accidentally drops the apples and then it hit her that she will kill her main character in the street, by being hit by a bus.
She later said that like many great ideas, they just come. . .
So maybe you can go to the grocery or something. . .
She later said that like many great ideas, they just come. . .
So maybe you can go to the grocery or something. . .
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Peter-CB
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Sharon's got a point. Sometimes the randomness of daily life ends something for you.
I only hit writer's block when I'm neglecting some aspect of my life--physically, mentally, or spiritually--that I need to tend before I can write again. Say, for example, I've been cooped up in my apartment or at work for days, and no ideas are coming: I go for a run. Or haven't had a good conversation/argument/night out: I go to the bar. Or haven't spent a while thinking about where I've been and where I'm going, and where I see myself in the universe: I read a book, or meditate, or go on a long walk by the river and watch the city run itself. Part of what makes a good writer is awareness and observation of one's surroundings, but it's also being self-aware to a degree at which you can tell when you need to clear your head. That usually means not thinking about your writing, but ideas instead. Get your mind in another groove.
I only hit writer's block when I'm neglecting some aspect of my life--physically, mentally, or spiritually--that I need to tend before I can write again. Say, for example, I've been cooped up in my apartment or at work for days, and no ideas are coming: I go for a run. Or haven't had a good conversation/argument/night out: I go to the bar. Or haven't spent a while thinking about where I've been and where I'm going, and where I see myself in the universe: I read a book, or meditate, or go on a long walk by the river and watch the city run itself. Part of what makes a good writer is awareness and observation of one's surroundings, but it's also being self-aware to a degree at which you can tell when you need to clear your head. That usually means not thinking about your writing, but ideas instead. Get your mind in another groove.
