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Block Breakers
Angelis:
As writers, most will be very familiar with the evil writer's block.
What is your best way for breaking the block? If you don't have a 'best' way, what do you find has broken your block(s) in the past?
ballplayer72:
Don't read this if you get offended easily ;)
(click to show/hide) Burning down a bowl is good to break up a block. Gets you into lala land thats for sure. Sex is good too.
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: Angelis on February 27, 2009, 08:08:32 PM ---What is your best way for breaking the block? If you don't have a 'best' way, what do you find has broken your block(s) in the past?
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Poking around on the internet.
Reading or watching something that's not similar enough to what I'm working on to get in the way, but is close enough that my characters will have reactions and opinions.
Starting something completely different. (Not hugely recommended; I think everybody accumulates things they astart and do not finish, but it's all too easy to get cuaght up in this and never finish anything.)
And, of course, Conceptual Guilt-Judo 101; find something I can persuade myself I need to be doing more, so that I can convince myself that I am actually goofing off when I go back to write on whatever it was, and therefore it does not have the psychological pressure of being blocked.
The Dread Pharaoh Roberts:
Find something to write, even just a random character description - you never know, it might come in handy later on, and it'll get your brain working again.
meg_evonne:
Suggestion from Bret Anthony Johnston....
Take three minutes and write as many words that begin with one letter--selecting, of course, different letters.
Rather interesting actually, because it forces you to concentrate on words. This will pull you out of your normal world and into the writing world.
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