Writer's Block

[lucy]

I have suffered from this affliction from time to time and now is one of those times--too much upheaval, too much worry, too much to clean around the house...I don't know how to remedy this?

Any suggestions.

Ps I am still working on the outline of my mystery -- still an outline after 11 months and this worries me.

should I hire a maid or what?

[Persephone]

Writing, like everything else in life, either gets done or it doesn't. Very little is inspired by anything other than a good hard case of butt to chair, fingers to keyboard.

When I was having a moment of indecision and self-doubt once, my teacher said to me, "So you'll either do this or you won't. Nobody cares but you."

It was a harsh reality to face, especially since I was the "queen bee" of that particular writing class. But even I, as wondrous as I believed myself to be, wasn't worth shit to anyone once I started saying "I can't...I don't know if I can..."

Thems the breaks. It gets done or it doesn't. Since you are the one who cares, you are the only one who can make it happen.

I feel your pain I'm in the middle of my own block, and it's killing me.

[lucy]

There is a part of me that wants to break out of a certain "shell" I feel I have entombed myself in....

To break this, perhaps, would enable some sense of freedom. I am not sure....


anyway, it helps to hear from others who write, Suth and Lizzie...:)

[lucy]

Thanks again.

I need some sleep.

I will read a bit and then say adeiu.

Ya'll be good to each other.

[Slipped Mickey]

Thanks again.

I need some sleep.

I will read a bit and then say adeiu.

Ya'll be good to each other.



Just write. You don't have to like what you write and often you won't be happy with it but just write and the Muse will come. Then you can start that part you were struggling with all over again once the Muse shows up.

One thing for certain if the Muse comes and you aren't sitting there writing it won't get written. Sometimes if I go for whatever I think is a reasonable period of time without ever making any progress I re-think where I wanted to go.

It'll come back.

Words are merely windows to the soul. I find it highly unimportant that the words I write are of any regard to anyone but myself.

Consider Brautigan. When he felt there was no purpose left for him understanding himself, he lost "the vision" and performed the ultimate writer's block. Termination.

And the only ones who care are those who love them.

It is not important what you write. What is important is what people think you meant when you wrote it...and even then, does it even matter?

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[lucy]

Sad about poets--

youth spent in gladness, old age often spent in "madness"...life can get to certain personalities who have little natural defenses against the wind.....

[lucy]

I'm one of the lucky ones--

I write bad poetry and I play bridge.

[Meshuga Mikey]

I feel your pain I'm in the middle of my own block, and it's killing me.


How do you know it's a block? Perhaps it's natures way of telling you to keep your day slack.

[Meshuga Mikey]

I have suffered from this affliction from time to time and now is one of those times--too much upheaval, too much worry, too much to clean around the house...I don't know how to remedy this?

Any suggestions.

Ps I am still working on the outline of my mystery -- still an outline after 11 months and this worries me.

should I hire a maid or what?


DO SOMETHING extraordinarily physical like, running up the nearrest hill, BUT,.. DONT PLAN IT~! JUST DO IT~!!!

The block is the same for all expressions of communicative "art" BTW!!

DEFINE YOUR OWN WORLD-- ADAMANTLY~!!!