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Creativelly dead inside
Buttersfly:
--- Quote from: eviladam on May 09, 2007, 08:39:16 AM ---Do you guys get that feeling? I'm getting it again. For about a month now everytime I try to write it's like there's nothing there, and any thing I try to force just comes out awful. And the simple act of trying to write something requires me to nap.
I hate these periods.
Any suggestions on working past it?
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Have you ever tried Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way? It's for writers as much as any other creative type--her seminars are for writers--and is amazingly good at freeing things up and re-stocking the brain. A creative writing MFA friend put me onto it and it worked--not only on writing but as a general mental-tidy as well. Gave it to all my friends who were still writing dissertations. Ardently recommended.
The Corvidian:
Sounds like your "Sense of Wonder" dries up. When that happens, I usually step away from the creating, and watch a favorite movie, read a book, or even do chores.
trboturtle:
--- Quote from: Buttersfly on May 11, 2007, 11:54:09 AM ---Have you ever tried Julia Cameron's The Artist's Way? It's for writers as much as any other creative type--her seminars are for writers--and is amazingly good at freeing things up and re-stocking the brain. A creative writing MFA friend put me onto it and it worked--not only on writing but as a general mental-tidy as well. Gave it to all my friends who were still writing dissertations. Ardently recommended.
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Is that a book, and do you have any more on it (Publisher, ISBN #, ect)
Craig
Cyclone Jack:
For the past two years I've gotten into the habit of outputting 2000 words a day, every day. At this point, it's the exact same thing as getting through a day of work when you don't really feel like being there. A slog, a pain -- but you just do it.
The brain is a funny thing. If it knows that the 2000 must be typed into existence regardless even if they are complete crap that won't do anything but fill up HD space, and is harness broken to this fact, nine times out of ten it will relent and allow decent work. ;D
pathele:
--- Quote from: trboturtle on May 15, 2007, 05:16:35 AM ---Is that a book, and do you have any more on it (Publisher, ISBN #, ect)
Craig
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I found it on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Artists-Way-Julia-Cameron/dp/1585421472/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/002-4156638-8601658?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179242580&sr=1-3
ISBN-10: 1585421464
ISBN-13: 978-1585421466
-paul
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