tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51056250889141389652024-03-05T08:59:04.281+00:00I Have Writer's Block"Re-Posting The Depths Of Creative Despair”
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-37826154960058965662013-08-03T07:28:00.001+01:002013-08-03T07:31:52.946+01:00My Writer's Block <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I was doing a summer camp over the holidays, we had to write a
little bit every day. And the teacher told us that if we couldn't write
anything, we should just keep writing this: I have writer's block. I
have writer's block. I have writer's block.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That's what I was planning on doing today.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But, of course, if you know me, I won't settle for just any boring old
entry, so, today I'm blogging about cool YouTube videos, and blogs to
visit!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So, the YouTube videos. Well, I was browsing the web the other day, when
I came across a really cool vid about how the famous singers, Justin
Bieber and Selena Gomez broke up. Though I'm not that interested in
celebrity life, the video was really funny and made me laugh. So if you
like the earlier mentioned artists or One Direction, you'll adore this
video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=gMyKNFqRyQk
. BEWARE: Slight censored profanity- occurs once.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And the blogs? Well, my mother's blog- yes, I have a mother, for you
sharp yet stupid wits- is pretty amazing. Keep it up, Mama! She's got
reviews on loads of restaurants and even an interview with the famous
Guy Savoy! So if you're interested in tongue-in-cheek recounts of past
events and awesome restaurants, check this
out! http://fleetfootedunderthesun.blogspot.sg/ .</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">An inordinately short post, but it'll have to do for now. Until next time.....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://candyapplesandbananas.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/my-writers-block.html" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-32347844687919590312013-04-11T06:48:00.001+01:002013-08-03T07:25:16.952+01:00 Facing the Inevitable: Writer’s Block<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">The most difficult part of being a writer
is that conquering this inevitable – ”writer’s block”. I have
experienced this kind of harrowing trap that hardly blocking me from
producing ideas . I tried to search for ways and answers to defeat it,
but I end up on a single and proven solution – facing it. I come to
realize that I should not push myself too much. A little break and
embracing a bit of inspiration will do to face the inevitable. Besides,
if I push myself, result will be against on my favor. It will just be a
mere craft without a heart and a soul.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;"><a href="http://amaeguerrero.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/facing-the-inevitable-writers-block/" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></span>Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-13437038529103840702013-02-28T12:00:00.003+00:002013-03-24T10:09:18.027+00:00I have writer’s block.<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I didn’t want to write this post.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I still don’t want to write this post.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Or any post.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Just typing out the words right now is something akin to pulling a thousand tiny splinters out of my body.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since about mid-December, I’ve been suffering from what you might call writer’s block. It’s more than a block, though. It’s more like, writing rejection–as in, my brain adamantly rejects the idea of writing. I almost hate writing every time I think about doing it. This bothers me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve seen many blogs come and go on the internets, and the eventual downfall happens the same way each time: the blogger starts to feel like they’re slogging through posts, instead of sitting down to write them with interest. Updates become fewer and further between. Radio silence ensues. I don’t want that to happen here, but I worry that it’s actually happening right now.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bloggers: How do I combat this?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I always told myself I would stop doing anything at IB if it stopped being fun, but I’m not ready to let go of the whole damn blog. I rather like it here. I like you guys. I think you’re pretty rad. But I don’t know how to flip the switch back on and want to write again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Help!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">(P.S. If anybody’s ever wanted to write a guest post for IB, now would be the time to ask.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://insatiablebooksluts.com/2013/02/21/i-have-writers-block/" target="_blank">Original Link</a></span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-33184520878325398212013-01-31T09:24:00.003+00:002013-01-31T09:24:58.708+00:00On Writer’s Block<div class="first-child " style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="cap" title="I">I</span>t’s
not like I do not have good ideas, in my drafts folder is over a
hundred (seriously!) drafts of posts that I want to write about.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s not like I do not have the time, my computer is simply doing six
months worth of updates so while it is doing that, I am just waiting
around for my computer to download the new updates, as well as the Adobe
Creative Suite (so far, all I’ve downloaded is Photoshop, 40% of
Illustrator is downloaded and I still have several more apps to
download, including Premiere Pro, After Effects, InDesign, Fireworks,
Audition, SpeedGrade, Prelude and Acrobat) and I should be writing…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s that I am not feeling it. I have writer’s block.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Now, I think it could be caused by my trying to post once a day,
every day – even to the point of forcing myself to post (which is not a
good thing when it just is not coming), it just is not fun anymore. I
don’t want to just shit out a post every day when I can take my time and
give these topics the time, attention and clarity they deserve. I found
myself saying this after beating myself up over writing about the
drumming class I had with Puck and the rest of the Crux Ansata gang a
couple weeks ago.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A Sense of Obligation</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I want to share with you a letter I recently received involving a very popular article of mine:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">You implied in your article on obtaining HRT relatively
easily that you were not being helpful. I want to tell you that you are
mistaken. This is probably the most realistic and certainly the most
encouraging information that I’ve managed to find so far. Thank very
much. I mean it. After years of postponing dealing with my gender
identity I’ve finally come to the conclusion that I have no choice but
to deal with it and you’ve helped me.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I like receiving fan mail like this. True, the hate mail and
dissenting comments make me think about my position and make me argue it
that much more strongly (or abandon it for pretty good reasons), but
sometimes, fan mail provides that ego boost that you sometimes need. One
thing that fan mail does, however, is it provides for a sense of
obligation – <b><i>people are actually reading this stuff I write</i></b>!
This is a concept that is still foreign to me, despite the fact that I
have been blogging for years. It means that when I write, I have to make
sure that it’s true, that it helps the reader in some way and that they
have a desire to learn more, despite acquiring new information.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is also this sense of obligation that means that if I want to
write, I should write well. I cannot do that every day if I am not
feeling it. I wish I were, because I have several series and posts that I
want to finish up and make available but I am just not feeling it. I
apologize for not having the ability to get these posts done today,
yesterday, the day before… you get the idea. I am committing to posting
quality content over quantity. Maybe I might wind up striking a balance a
la Bryan Veloso of Avalonstar fame…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Quantity</b></i> over <i>quality</i>. <i><b>Raw</b></i> over <i>refined</i>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">These posts, my dear visitor, are part of an experiment. An experiment to get <a href="http://avalonstar.com/journal/2011/dec/10/rekindling/">me to write again</a>—about<b>anything</b>.
So no matter what interest group of mine you hail from, there’s bound
to be something that will entertain, humor or slightly offend you.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">If not? <a href="http://twitter.com/bryanveloso">By all means ask me to write about it.</a></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe I might do that one day. Not now, though.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://jessicasideways.com/2012/09/on-writers-block/" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-82433694118099209172013-01-15T07:10:00.004+00:002013-01-15T07:10:59.308+00:00Struggling <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I guess all I have to do to get myself to go back to blogging on a regular basis is to say I'm not going to do it for a while. <br />
I'm in the process of trying to write a book. I am n page 42. The
problem is that I have been on page 42 for the last two weeks. I'm
going through yet another bout of writers block. I'm struggling with
self-doubt. I feel like I'm no good and I've lost momentum. I feel
disconnected from the story and I'm struggling with finding a way back
to it. I've thought about reading what I've wrote so far, but I know
it's awful (a first draft isn't supposed to be great) and I fear it will
only make it worse. I start the day thinking I'll write and then do
all I can to avoid doing it.<br />
Part of the problem is that my writing course is over and now I feel
lost. I feel like without the course, I will have no way to learn the
craft. I have no idea what I'm doing. The thing is, you either have it
or you don't and I'm afraid I don't. I have book upon book about
writing that cover topics like, writing from life, writing great
fiction, scene and setting, elements of style, editing your own work and
a half dozen of writing magazines. I am so desperate to learn how to do
it right (as if talent can be taught) and I feel ill-equipped to be
taking on the task of writing a book. <br />
My teacher says to just keep writing. She says to get the story down
and worry about how well written it is later. I know I should be taking
her advise, but it's easier said than done. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.pondhopper.net/2012/12/struggling.html" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-85162506810747467282013-01-10T06:37:00.000+00:002013-01-10T06:37:11.160+00:00Writer’s Block<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don’t think I have writer’s block in the traditional sense. I know
what I want to say, it comes out as I type and I’d like to think what I
write isn’t pure crap. It’s the getting started that’s hard. And
continuing. I’ll plan to write and come up with a million things I’d
rather read instead, so I just waste hours reading when I could be
writing something.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I forget which interview with the artist Linder Sterling this was (it wasn’t the one with Morrissey featured in<em> Interview Magazine </em>which
was wonderful to read), but she said somewhere that being creative
can’t be scheduled. Unfortunately working a day job, I have to schedule
my “creativity” around that which I think is part of the problem. If
only I could be one of those people living in their parents’ basements!
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote <em>This Side of Paradise</em> in his mother’s
attic. Just kidding, having developed some life skills from living on
my own will benefit me whether or not I ever do become an author.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anyway- I actually have begun a novel I intend to complete. I just
need to find something within me to give me that final push to actually
do that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://tragedyofthemundane.com/2012/11/25/writers-block/" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-87342256155369425772013-01-01T09:21:00.000+00:002013-01-01T09:22:18.459+00:00Writer's block? <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’m going through something of a weird patch at the moment.
I began work on my first book<span style="font-size: small;"> Elimante the Imp<span style="font-size: small;">ossible</span></span> in March 2007 and it was published just under a year later.
Then in 2009, 2010 and 2011 I have brought out books. 2012 will be the first
year that I have not brought out a book since I started and it feels odd.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> What shall I do next?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s not as if I've given up writing in 2012. If you look at my<span style="font-size: small;"> b<span style="font-size: small;">ibliography</span></span> you will see that I have written five articles (all of which were published)
and have edited the book of another author. I have today completed the first
draft of an article that I really hope will make it into the <i>Sherlock Holmes Journal</i> in 2013. So I've not been idle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Yet I do feel a little lazy. True, I have started work on
another book but I have not touched it for months. Perhaps I just needed a year
off the book writing treadmill or is it that my blog has consumed more of my
time than it should? Who knows?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">2013 is shaping up to be a very busy year outside of Sherlockiana. Let’s just hope
it leaves me time to make it to book number five. Five is my lucky number after
all. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://alistaird221b.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/writers-block.html" target="_blank">Original Link</a></span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-12402551577493397472012-12-28T10:41:00.004+00:002012-12-28T10:41:39.165+00:00Writer’s Block?<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> have writer’s block? Or something. I dunno.</span></span>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I know vaguely what I want to do for the next scene or two, but I
can’t actually think of what to have the character say. Or like, what
would be interesting? Or something? Bah. I’ll draw the next scene when I
can figure that out. In the mean time, I’m still working on that
program for the dojo.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">JDBC:Derby is bullshit. The Date/Time data types rely on deprecated
objects, which is mildly annoying. Because of it, I figure the entirety
of the Java world can’t be relying on Derby, but so far everything I’ve
found referencing databases in Java all point to Derby (or some
godawfulgiganticnetworkdatabasething which is well beyond the scope of
my little program.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Christ, I wish everyone would get on the same page when it comes to programming.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://sediverse.com/2012/10/writers-block-2/" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-25614585380666978652012-12-27T07:43:00.004+00:002012-12-27T07:43:43.545+00:00Writers Block <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Been
going through a phase of writers block, haven't been able to write like I
used to for a while. Feels like everything I have to say is too short
for a post. I blame twitter's word count :p makes you compromise what
you want to say to have it fit. I'm going to flat out say it.. this
sucks. Feels like your brain is letting you down when you have a lot to
say. Everything unsaid is what needs to be heard the most. </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Tell me my lovely readers, does anyone have any advice to get over writers block? </span></span></span></div>
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Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-40280759164573454872012-12-21T06:35:00.002+00:002012-12-21T06:37:43.371+00:00Writer’s Block and Publishing.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I try real hard to come up with zany blog posts to entertain you all, but then it hits: <i><b>Writer’s Block!</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I seem to write in spurts, full of ideas, high creativity level, and then-BOOM! It hits and I got nothing!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is important to me, whether I publish or not, to write something
everyday, it seems most days to fuel my creativity, but today is not
that day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I struggle with whether to publish everyday or even every other day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I do publish often, will people get sick of me if I publish every day?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Who just said that there already sick of me? I’ ll kick your ….promised my husband I’d stop swearing so much…you get the idea!</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Oh, Mr. Wise guy in the corner who would like to see me try it, seriously I am gonna kick your ass! (Sorry, hubby was provoked.)</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Ah..yeah.. the joys of writer’s block and wondering if I should post whenever I have material.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Gonna go for whenever I feel like it! How does that sound?</span></span></div>
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Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-34368132532962672532012-12-18T07:40:00.003+00:002012-12-21T06:38:14.288+00:00Writer’s Block?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Writer’s Block aka The Enemy. Does it truly exist, and if so how do we defeat it?</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Currently I think I’m having a writer’s
block of sorts, or maybe a creativity block would be a better term.
It’s as if writing, editing, revising and eventually completing my
first manuscript has drained the life out of me. I can’t write. I ‘m
having the hardest time coming up with new story ideas as well
as finishing my WIPs (work-in-progress).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Any advice? What do you do to come up with new story ideas and/or to motivate yourself to finish WIPs?</b></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Whimsically Yours,</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">PnC</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://youtu.be/qKjSnmJd2Q8" target="_blank">http://youtu.be/qKjSnmJd2Q8</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>^if you ever need a laugh this should do the trick <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif?m=1129645325g" /></i> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">P.P.S. Check back tomorrow for The Weekly Fashionista: Holiday Edition</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">–Patrice</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://whimsicallyours.com/2012/12/11/writers-block/" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-46484527139221386622012-12-17T07:25:00.002+00:002012-12-17T07:25:22.172+00:00Writer's Block <div style="text-align: justify;">
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I'm sure you guys have noticed lately that my posts are just a flood of
reviews. And I keep using the excuse that I'm busy to justify my
absence. Heck, I even cleaned my garage and unpacked boxes that were
still around from when we moved in, in an effort to avoid blogging. But
even though being busy with Mr. H's show for a while and gearing up for
the holidays has kept me away, that's not the whole truth. Truth is,
I've been majorly avoiding sharing personal stuff on here lately because
I've been afraid that a lot of it would come out angry and mean. The
past few months have been a landslide of stress for me, and it's not
something that I can pinpoint specifically, though there are several
sources that have contributed to the problem.</span></span></div>
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So, blame it on mommy guilt, blame it on whatever...but the bottom line
is that I've been keeping to myself to spare you guys the bitchy,
self-pity filled, foot-in-my-mouth type posts that would have been born
of my constant frustrations while I worked through stuff. And I'm not
quite there yet, but I'm finally in a place where the emotions aren't so
raw and I feel open to sharing my struggles with others. I mean, what's
the point of even having a blog if you're not going to use it to get
out the things that you actually feel need said? So it's back to the
metaphorical grind for me in the blogging world, but don't expect the
same reviewy, forced writing you've been getting out of me for the past
however long.</span></span></div>
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I promise that you'll be reading A LOT less reviews on the blog from now
on. Though I love trying new stuff and getting to introduce it to
y'all, review blogging has started to feel more chore-y and less fun
lately. In light of that, from here on out I'll be reviewing only books
and brands that I really, actually, 100% care about supporting. I can
also promise that I will try hard to stop censoring so much of what I'd
really like to be writing about. Writing has always been super cathartic
to me, but I find that blogging is difficult because you have to be
willing to open up a side of yourself and share it with the world in a
way that is so public that it's a tad scary. All that being said,
hopefully this will make the blog a better place going forward. I'd love
to earn readership based on mutual respect and shared learning
(especially with regard to parenting) rather than a random giveaway I
hosted. Not that there's anything wrong with giveaways, since I love
free stuff as much as the next person, but you know what I mean...</span></span>
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In parting, I'm going to drop a quote from Supernatural on y'all that
I'll try to keep in mind myself more as I work my way back to a happier
me: "Decide to be fine till the end of the week. Make yourself smile.
Because you're alive, and that's your job. Then do it again the next
week. Do it right, with a smile, or don't do it." Thanks, Frank
Devereaux, for sharing your wisdom. ;)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://rockinhreviews.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/writers-block.html" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-75876200617898667072012-12-16T10:45:00.002+00:002012-12-16T10:45:45.261+00:00In Which I Have Writers’ Block <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some people don’t believe in it, other people suffer something chronic –
it’s one of those much-debated Tricky Subjects. Is it an urban myth/a
conspiracy theory/a convenient excuse for laziness…? People seem to view
it as the creative writing version of the lough ness monster or the
celestine prophecy or holocaust-denial. <i>Obviously</i>, all of these
things are just plain wrong – only an idiot or a psycopath would
actually believe in them. So surely the same applies to writer’s block?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I didn’t believe in it. It seemed completely irrational to me that
twenty-first century writers could be afflicted with such a strange,
Victorian-sounding condition … but then I started working for the Open
University and was blessed with the benefit of their excellent
literature on creative writing and I realised that writer’s block doesn’t just exist… <i>I</i> have it. I’ve had it for several years.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The thing is that writer’s block is not what you might expect. It’s not a
literary form of constipation in which you’re seated at your desk
trying to squeeze a tiny word out – actually, when you have writer’s
block it may be that you are writing heaps and heaps of material. The
thing is that the creative process is being stunted – it is the process
of moving “straight from creation to punitive judgement”, it is a
“system of ferocious self-cancellation” (p. 30). Really, looking back,
my experience on the QUB creative writing MA probably didn’t help as I
was surrounded by older, more experienced writers who would happily
attack my work like a pack of wolves given half a chance – not that the
work didn’t probably deserve it but it really felt pretty vicious.
Still, perhaps it will have turned out to be little more than an
over-zealous pruning and my future growth will be accelerated – anyway
that was 2004, let’s face it, I’ve had a bit of time to get over it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Anyway, now that I’ve had an epiphany and realised that writer’s block <i>does</i> exist and that I’ve had it; more importantly now that I know what it <i>is</i>.
I can move on and make a start with the rest of my career. The key is, I
need to make sure that I separate the critic from the creative when I’m
writing. I need to give my work a little bit of room to grow. And I
need not to worry too much what other people will think of it. I’ll
begin by writing for me and I’ll aim to write only work that <i>I </i>am proud of. It’s a liberating feeling! I’ll let you know how I get on. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://memoirsofawomanofpleasure.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/in-which-i-have-writers-block/" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-65934702678954318842012-12-15T07:14:00.003+00:002012-12-15T07:15:06.289+00:00a bad case of writer’s block<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’ve been fighting a bad case of writer’s block lately – my writing for work has been a struggle from start to finish; my attempts to write for this blog have been so futile that yesterday I resorted to posting a piece that Thought Catalog rejected – and, as I’m wont to do when I’m fighting writer’s block, I’m feeling down.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Work today really took it out of me, so on my way home I called my friend Tony, who recently moved from LA to the ATL. I was loathe to prove his observation that his friends from L.A. only call him on their commutes correct, but I wanted to talk to him about how he deals with creativity droughts. He’s a musical composer and pretty damn good writer to boot, so I was curious if he had any tricks I could use to get inspired again.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Basically, I wanted the easy way out.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">He didn’t have any tricks, but what he said was helpful. He said that when creative people go through a dry spell, there’s this fear – a fear that this is it, that the creativity is never going to come back. That lethargy can be so overwhelming that it feels useless to even try to do anything else, let alone power through the creative block. And when I get to that point, the easiest thing to do is to just feel bad about myself.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Creatives, huh?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But it was nice to hear another person who’s experienced the same thing express some solidarity. Part of the reason I’m so bleh is because I’ve fallen into a sort of routine lately, which has put a damper on my inspiration. I have a rule of writing about my experience, but if my experience is the same, day in and day out, of course I’m going to run out of interesting things to write about. Tony suggested a change of scenery, and I agree.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">That’s why, effective immediately, I’m moving from my desk to my couch.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.noparticulartheme.com/2012/10/23/a-bad-case-of-writers-block/" target="_blank">Original Link</a></span></span>Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-91106539687015746842012-12-14T06:41:00.005+00:002012-12-14T06:42:52.203+00:00Writers block <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And i have had writers block for I while now,<br />
that's why I have been so inconsistent.<br />
If you have any fashion or lifestyle related event,<br />
Or blog you would like me to feature, send me an email.<br />
hope to get 'unblocked' soon.<br />
Also i would like to write a guest feature on your blog. <br />
That might help.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">peggyzplace@yahoo.co.uk</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://peggyzplace.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/writers-block.html#.UMrJ7Wfk3Tq" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-17027825142955399052012-12-13T07:29:00.002+00:002012-12-13T07:32:54.483+00:00Writer’s Block<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Type a Sentence, Backspace the sentence. Pause, and make an attempt to
assemble some coherence. No coherence. Writer’s block I have, words I
have not. According to Wikipedia (citation needed), writer’s block can
result from “physical illness, depression, the end of a relationship,
financial pressures, and a sense of failure.” But a few paragraph’s
down, Wikipedia tells me (and maybe you, too if you read the page) that
writer’s block might actually be from a switch in control to the limbic
system (flight or fight!) from the cerebral cortex (Van Gogh!)<span style="font-size: small;">.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">As the calendar marches onward to the dead of winter, I lose my
proverbial voice. The brain in my head gets muddled down and arduously
slow, and productivity seems illusory. Oh but this Summer! The fluency
was not slow enough and the words flowed so sweetly. Why, dear readers,
when I’m still me, the same person I’ve been, can’t I maintain an ease
with words? I’ll tell you, although it’s somewhat of a dreadful story.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well the winter days are a burden and the heart feels faint; the bleakness of winter is hardly bearable each and every year.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">On one end <strong>Manic</strong>;<strong> Depression</strong> on the other</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">And the spectrum bounces endlessly so, each winter I wonder why I bother
with life, and each spring I remember. I suppose I do have a blessing
in knowing what to expect of this, but I can assure you, that does not
make it easy. A jail sentence completed 1/2 of the year is still an
awful six months of looking through the bars and wondering if you’ll
ever see daylight again.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh, I know I’m dramatic, but that’s all a part of the fun! What use is a
mood if it doesn’t make you feel? Tragedy! Drama! Romance! Is that not
life? I suppose I’ve been cursed with an exceptional capacity to feel
the pains and purities of my own existence in a world so large, and it
is cursed. Cursed on the months that I cannot articulate. Cursed on the
days I spend unable to see the sunlight, and cursed on the tears that I
cannot keep in. But beautiful are the moments of gratitude that swell in
my chest and heat up the blood in my veins, and beautiful are the face
of the people my eyes wander across, and beautiful are the words that
flow from my mind to my lips on the days I can speak. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://everydaybucklewords.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/writers-block/" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-2733141458379856382012-12-12T06:10:00.001+00:002012-12-12T06:11:39.036+00:00Thank You Thesis--I Now Have Writer's Block. T.T<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Analytic paper and a creative mind don't play well together. The
result--writer's block. Hate times like this. The semester can't end
soon enough. Redhead out again. Later.<br />
Peace.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.mychemicalromance.com/blog/redhead2391/thank-you-thesis-i-now-have-writers-block-tt" target="_blank">Original Link</a></span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-43843168274884963082012-12-11T06:42:00.005+00:002012-12-11T06:43:02.403+00:00Writers Block<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Something I wrote a few months back. The agony of the block <img alt=":(" class="wp-smiley" src="http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif?m=1129645325g" /> …</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Writing is something I’ve always done for fun. I express myself
really well when I put pen to paper. I involved myself in many writing
activities. Press club, Secretary to different societies and to think I
wrote a story book even though it never saw the light of day.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’ve never considered my writing to be so awesome or even worthy of
any praises. You can imagine my surprise when I started blogging. For
fun too. I always had a personal blog that I just typed and stored on my
computer because I thought why in the world will anyone want to read
what I have in my head. I went ahead to post my thoughts online anyways
and the responses I got were beyond overwhelming.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I know many writers whom I envy for their writing skill – an awesome
talent. Some of them praise me for my work too but I beg to differ. When
some of them stop writing for a while and leave me wanting to read more
of their work, I hit them up and ask them the reason behind the break
in transmission. Writer’s block was always the culprit.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I always thought Writer’s block was a myth. Why will somebody have a
skill that has to go on and off? It just doesn’t add up. You can say
things like “I’m out of ideas” or “I’ve just been plain lazy” or “I
don’t have time” or “I’ve run out of ink” not “Writer’s block”</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Writer’s block doesn’t exist. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or So I thought.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Not Until It hit me.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I just couldn’t get my thoughts together. I had so many ideas dancing
in my head but I just couldn’t organise the ideas in my head, put them
down and transform them into awesome pieces. The ultimate struggle;
Getting ideas from my head to paper.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even when I was able to put something down, it always turned out drab
and below par. Maybe I didn’t have writers block. I was just trying to
keep up with expectation. Still am.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I suffered a bout of depression and according to what I looked up on
the internet, depression is a good period in time to be a writer because
you have many thoughts and ideas.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Truly; I had many thoughts and ideas going and coming but I just couldn’t write the down. The block is REAL.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">What did I do about it?<br />
I met my friends who had gone through the same process and one
particular friend was really keen on helping me get through it. We had
exercises and games which helped me a great deal but the effect didn’t
last long and now its back. Like a relapsing fever.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Many great writers in history have gone through writer’s block while
some were able to come out of it and write some more great books/pieces,
Some others? Not so much.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I just hope this Writer’s block, as real as it can get, does not deprive me of my favorite past time.
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://kemmiiii.com/2012/10/29/writers-block/" target="_blank">Original Link</a></span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-67696581766380707882012-12-10T07:11:00.004+00:002012-12-10T07:11:40.484+00:00This Blank Feeling…<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don’t know what to do.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This feeling is weird. I’ve had it for a long while, but it’s only
now that I have fully realised the gravity of the situation. It’s bad…
It’s really bad… and I don’t know what to do about it.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I feel blank.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Completely and utterly blank.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This blankness feels strange in me. It is like I’m some sort of robot
that can’t think any creative thoughts. My mind feels disconnected from
the being that has been giving me creative input all this time.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It’s not your typical writer’s block. Writer’s block is an excuse for
not being able to write. It usually stems from the frustrating feeling
that whatever you write is not going to be perfect, or from where an
idea simply does not want to form on the piece of paper.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I don’t know what it is, but I don’t have a single idea in my head.
It’s almost like I’m on auto-pilot and some part of me is controlling
what I’m doing and I am merely watching this all unfold in front of my
eyes. It’s horrific!</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe I am making up excuses in order not to write, but when I try to
think of an idea, it feels like I’m hitting a wall. I need to tear this
wall down! It’s blocking my creative flow and preventing me from
reaching my awesome state of creative nirvana. If I don’t do something
about it, then I might die horribly, but mostly emotionally, from not
being able to mix words and thoughts together to share my message to the
people of a great story.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">What if story ideas did come from little elves? That would actually
explain a lot of my life if it happened to be like that. Where is my elf
or muse or daemon or creative spirit? I want my juices and I want it
now! I want to feel energy flow from my finger tips on to the keyboard
that digitally inscribes my words of storytelling onto the white digital
piece of ethereal paper.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh wait…</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I think my daemon has come back. He floated in from the window. I
wonder where he has been. Does he know the suffering that he has put me
under? Oh well, that doesn’t matter right now. What’s important is that
he is back and ready to work…</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">…because I can feel an idea coming on.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">How do you deal with your creative dilemmas? What methods do you use
to get yourself writing again? Please tell me. I would like to know.
Sharing knowledge is the best way to beat a universal problem.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dante…</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://danteswritings.wordpress.com/2012/12/02/this-blank-feeling/" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-10926163611809698712012-12-09T08:13:00.002+00:002012-12-09T08:14:56.488+00:00Writers Block Continued..<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hello guys!! <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif?m=1129645325g" /> </b></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So I’ve just noticed I haven’t blogged anything in 15 days! SHOCKING!
This writers block is really getting comfortable this time <img alt=":(" class="wp-smiley" src="http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif?m=1129645325g" /> I suppose I haven’t been making much effort to work my brain so hopefully soon I’ll have some new posts for you <img alt=":)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://s0.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif?m=1129645325g" /> </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Any suggestions for this horrible writers block will be appreciated! hehe..</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Have a good weekend guys.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">M.S</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://stuckinalabyrinth.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/writers-block-continued/" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-31038258332278261332012-12-08T06:37:00.001+00:002012-12-08T06:37:46.806+00:00I don’t believe in writer’s block, but I think I’ve got it<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I haven’t written anything in ages.<br />
I know, I hear you say kind reader, if you’ve been bothering to come back to this site, (which is awfully patient of you).<br />
I have tried.<br />
There are several half-started posts sitting in the drafts box on a
variety of topics from neglected regional newspapers to badly behaved
children. But none are finished.<br />
Yet I’ve been writing every day for almost 20 years. From local news to
gardening and parenting articles, PR guff and copywriting, university
lectures and reports, and of course, blogposts.<br />
Ours is a house of writing. Two journalists. No escape.<br />
Articles are written with ruthless efficiency. 1,500 words in a couple of hours? Easy.<br />
But then I stopped.<br />
Firstly too busy. I had a 9,000 word essay to write, which wasn’t
journalism and was bloody hard. I’m still not sure it was right.<br />
Then I was too backlogged with the amount unwritten.<br />
More procrastination.<br />
Then I just couldn’t.<br />
Then felt depressed I couldn’t. “Don’t be stupid Hilary, just write a bloody post,” said the voice of my sleepless nights.<br />
Still nothing. Blank screen.<br />
Before the ‘block’ I lost a long term weekly writing contract (this was
some months ago), without any real notice, explanation or actual final
date.<br />
I suspect it’s had a deeper effect than just the initial anger and
disappointment, especially as it was left hanging so I couldn’t offer my
services elsewhere.<br />
Whatever the cause, my previous skepticism of writers’ block is cancelled.<br />
It’s taken nine days to write this tiny blog post . . . and it sounds a bit whingey.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://hilaryscott.co.uk/2012/10/27/i-dont-believe-in-writers-block-but-i-think-ive-got-it/" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-25724298399607032782012-12-07T07:45:00.001+00:002012-12-07T07:45:41.689+00:00Writer’s Block<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://jefferytodd.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/block.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://jefferytodd.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/block.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the page that every WordPress blogger faces when it’s time
for a new post. Well usually there’s more light but it’s been raining in
Southern California, an anomaly that sends the people running indoors.
We don’t know what to do, the sun has disappeared. It’s not December 12
yet, it can’t be the end!</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But I digress. This is the “new blank page.” It’s just not as
romantic as the notion of a typewriter with an actual blank page sitting
in it, staring, taunting, waiting for the writer to strike the keys and
produce something new and exciting in bold black and white. For a
hundred years writers stared at that. Although differing reports, one
such entry in Wikipedia lists the typewriter as being invented by
Italian Pellegrino Turri in 1801 for his blind lover Countess Carolina
Fantoni da Fivizzono. He also invented carbon paper which seems like a
cruel joke because she would get black stuff all over fingers, then wipe
it on her face and not know it. Unfortunately he didn’t invent
Pellegrino water which she could have used to get the stains out. That
was already discovered in San Pellegrino and already being drunk.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So writers have been staring at a typewriter before there was even
electricity, the candlelight casting shadows that probably formed faces
in the writer’s tired brain telling her how much talent she did not have
and telling her to stop trying to be a writer and go get married. No
one wants to read your depressing poetry.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">But what of the ones that could not afford this new invention. From
my school years, I remember reading about Abraham Lincoln, studying and
learning by candlelight, his pen and quill staring at him while he
re-worked what would become the Gettysburg address long before he even
gave that speech and it was just called “This Is Probably How Things
Should Go Down.”</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">And what of the great philosophers in History hundreds of years
before that, staring at their blank stone and chisel waiting to carve
out some really great, simple sayings like “What concerns me is not the
way things are, but rather the way people think things are.” Epictetus
etched that in stone somewhere between 55 and 135 AD and still people
don’t put that to use as evidenced by this year’s biggest news items.
But nobody’s really that big on the Ten Commandments either so hopefully
he’s not lamenting that in Heaven.</span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">So what does it matter? What does it matter if I leave it blank
today? With our modern computers, my frustration at the blank page is
quickly aborted with a new tab showing the number one downloaded video
of Gangnam Style and I can learn a new dance. Or go look at cat pictures
on Facebook. Is my blog really having any impact, either humorous or
inspirational or is it simply Blah Blah Blah instead of Blogging.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>I don’t know, but I do know that I have learned over the past three years that I love to write and I want to continue.</b>
It brings me so much joy that it has to be coming from a good place. So
I will stare at this computer screen until I come up with something.
I’ll get back to yo<span style="font-size: small;">u</span>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://jefferytodd.wordpress.com/2012/11/30/writers-block/" target="_blank">Original Link</a></span></span></div>
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Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-78060319501602739862012-12-06T06:37:00.004+00:002012-12-06T06:40:11.724+00:00Writer’s Block and Crossroads<div class="entry-title" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">These past few weeks, I have had severe writer’s block — not only with creative writing, but also with my school assignments.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">You see, in August, I decided to pursue my Masters of Business Administration degree. Why?</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">I am not sure.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">At that time, I thought I was possibly returning to Nepal with a
non-profit organization and using this experience to take my degree and
my professional life to another level. Well, things changed and I did
not find the funds to go to Nepal. On top of that, some other things
fell apart and now I am left standing in the middle of the path
wondering how to finish this semester’s assignments.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">No, this post isn’t about my assignments.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is about my life — and how once again I am finding myself at a
crossroad of dreams. It is about how I am constantly reminded of my past
and the broken dreams that exist there. It is about a weary and broken
heart just simply longing for a new season.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">However, all I really want to do, seriously, is just go for a
nice long hike in a forest somewhere and get some fresh air – for a
long time.</span></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<b><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Or just back pack through Europe for 6 months or longer.</span></span></b></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">As I sit here, I am not sure what to write next – the writer’s block
is still hindering me. There are some decisions that I must make and
soon. Some dreams will have to be sacrificed so that other dreams can
leave. This is the duality of human nature.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is the paradox of life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Until next time….</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://jerecrojournals.com/2012/11/12/writers-block-and-crossroads/" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-42004743743830900682012-12-05T07:35:00.001+00:002012-12-05T07:35:42.617+00:00WRITER'S BLOCK <div style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">For a year
now I've been suffering from writer's block. Every time I've tried to
write something to publish, there has been a serious blackout and a
tabula rasa has stayed as tabula rasa. I've been trying to find out the
reasons for my writer's block and here's some thoughts: </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span></div>
<div style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Writing a
blog with hundreds of readers little by little started to feel like an
obligation. I didn't want my (old Plastic Bag) blog to be just another
lifestyle blog with boring "what I did today" -posts. I guess one of the
reasons why my blog got so popular at the first place was because it
stood out with the "different and funny" things I made. But inventing
funny and clever stuff all the time can be difficult especially because I
was going through very hard times in my personal life.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">So finally I
decided to finish my Plastic Bag -blog and start a new blog that I
wouldn't have to update regularly, more like a homepage for my works.
Somehow that soon started to bore me as well. I'm too restless person
for having just a DIY-blog, music blog, fashion blog etc. I have too
much stuff in my head that just doesn't fit under my art/ DIY stuff
-section and no place where to share it, because Facebook isn't the
right place all that kind of shit. What to do?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">I asked
advice from my boyfriend and he said "don't think too much, just do it"
and "try to imagine that the text you write is just another pig's nose
you make". (Pushing his nose to make it look like a pig's is my huge
passion btw).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Anyway, I'm
not sure what's the main point behind this text. Maybe this is the
first pig's nose text I'm writing or something. This is also a great
moment to thank the readers who are still following me, even if I've
been quite boring blogger lately. If you have any advices for writer's
block or submissions for me as a blogger, I'm listening.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Have a peaceful autumn!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Ps. I want this!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://marjahelenamansikka.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/writers-block.html" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></span></div>
Michael Ridgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14795842036953347740noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5105625088914138965.post-87456926025915853592012-12-04T07:31:00.001+00:002012-12-04T07:31:46.313+00:00Some Nights Sounds Like The Lion King. <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Wow. Serious case of writer’s block going on right now. And I have
“Some Nights” by Fun. stuck in my head. In case you were wondering what
that looks like in type, here you go:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">sdlksddslks lksdlk lksdsk lsfdlkksdlk klsdfl lsdlksdsdklsddssdsd</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">You’re welcome.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Maybe I’ll try this again tomorrow (it’s like a “thing”) and see if I can come up with … well, anything.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Have a good night, everyone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://isweartoomuch.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/some-nights-sounds-like-the-lion-king/" target="_blank">Original Link</a> </span></span></div>
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