Tag: writers block
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May 15, 2006 11:48 PM EDT --
Here are some ideas to jump-start your writing!
1) Write an arguement between two characters that begins in bed.
2) Tell the story of a job interview that goes badly. The more your characters . . .
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October 27, 2008 02:23 AM EDT --
I have been suffering from writers block for a few months now when it comes to a story I am trying to write. Tonight, to help open the imagination, I decided to write a bit of poetry on the subject of . . .
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July 24, 2008 10:43 PM EDT --
so i've been trying to think of how best to start the net part of the first chapter of a book i'm trying to write and it's not going to so well. i've got a out 7 pages of the first part . . .
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November 03, 2006 12:50 PM EST --
this is what happens when i have writer's block and need to relax. baking is one of the few things i do that grants me clarity, albeit for a short time. its sort of like meditating...with a lot . . .
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December 07, 2006 11:27 AM EST --
Just about cracked it!
Sorted out my rubber bands,
I ironed my tea-towels,
Lined up my books by colour,
Displacement activity.
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July 30, 2007 01:02 AM EDT --
I hit a dry spell the last three weeks. Words refused to flow in any way. I toiled and for the first time in quite a time writing felt like work. Fear grabbed my throat. Was I "wrote . . .
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September 10, 2007 07:57 AM EDT --
For anyone who has faced down the demon of the blank page and is interested in a new tool to help bust writer's block, I came across an interesting article in the Absolute Write newsletter by Jurgen . . .
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November 03, 2006 08:55 AM EST --
Cursed cursor
Winking, taunting
A strobe light for the mind
Send me into synaptic seizures
Cursed cursor
Pulsing, probing
An ugly ill tempered muse
Waits impatiently to scurry along . . .
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January 13, 2007 03:00 AM EST --
December 2004 - For the last month I've been writing a novel. Every November since 2001, the year after I moved to Happy Camp, I've written a novel. Before then I only dreamed of writing novels. . . .
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May 15, 2006 03:46 PM EDT --
For most of us, there are times when we lose our creative momentum and it seems like we couldn't come up with a novel idea if it was slapped us on the face. However, it's good to know that this . . .
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August 29, 2007 10:57 PM EDT --
Life ripped from the earth, roots dry
Splayed on rich marble
Surrounded by waterfalls
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January 23, 2008 05:00 PM EST --
So I'm just sitting here typing and I was trying to think of something really exciting to write about and absurdly enough.....absolutely NOTHING comes to my mind. Now it's pretty much an understatement . . .
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February 06, 2008 01:24 PM EST --
2008 is the Year of the Rat. Which animal year were you born in?
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Year of the dog. Look up yours here
THE DOG
Dogs are honest,straightforward,and . . .
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October 27, 2008 02:10 AM EDT --
I have been suffering from writers block for a few months now when it comes to a story I am trying to write. Tonight, to help open the imagination, I decided to write a bit of poetry on the subject of . . .
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June 10, 2006 02:51 PM EDT --
There will be times that you lose your creative momentum and it seems like you couldn't come up with a novel idea if it was stuck out in front of you. Remember that this is only temporary - an 'incubation . . .
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October 10, 2007 03:43 PM EDT --
Writing is one of the easiest things to do…all I need is something to write on and something to write with and something to write about: a pen, a notebook and a view—a crayon, construction . . .
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October 01, 2006 09:00 AM EDT --
Here I am again, pounding away on the keyboard writing things other than that which is calling to me. I feel frustrated and angry at myself for having so little discipline.
I always wanted . . .
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March 03, 2007 11:04 PM EST --
The poet's struggle
With the pen of nonchalance,
Ends when black ink flows
And legerdemain transforms
Virgin pages vivid green
Copyright 2007 Jim Ross
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September 15, 2007 03:47 PM EDT --
The muse and I have struggled mightily this summer. In the spring, things were looking great! I wrote up a synopsis to a new novel and sent it around to a few friends. All agreed (as friends . . .
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September 18, 2007 09:22 AM EDT --
Having lived in a small town where everyone knew every person in it, there were still people that seemed to be unknown. Characters really, like the little old man who would . . .
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