Post by Belinda on Sept 5, 2003 14:27:42 GMT -5
I’ve been receiving many emails and messages lately from Poets suffering from Poetry Block
Soooo…I’ve done some research
What I found:
I’ve shortened this quite a bit for easy reading and have included the source links for you who may want more details on a particular point!
Soooo…I’ve done some research
What I found:
I’ve shortened this quite a bit for easy reading and have included the source links for you who may want more details on a particular point!
Solutions
* Reading
* Go to the movies
* Change your writing Scenery
* Force Yourself to Write and Edit Later
www.writtenroad.com/archives/000173.shtml
· Fear of the blank page (or screen)
· Simple fatigue
· Remember to breathe!
· Change your state (go for a walk)
· Sleep on it
· Talk about the block - even talk to it
· Talk about ideas
· Belong to Writers groups
Some cool comments:
Once in a while an idea arrives whole. With relatively little work you can sit down and dash off a short piece with ease and elegance. But more often, ideas come unformed. Ideas tend to be big, loopy things that need pruning or honing to get to their center. If you can't write the purpose of the work, short of long, in 10 words or less, the idea needs more work.
Yeasting
One way to think about ideas is to liken them to making bread. Bread won't happen if you don't allow the yeast time to work; ideas need time to yeast, to come to full flower, if you will.
How long this yeasting process takes is impossible to say. It depends on so many things, including:
· Your experience
· The nature of the idea
· The length of the work
The trick, if there is one, is to trust the process, and stay alert. The development of an idea can come at any time and take many forms. All you need to do is capture them when they happen.
freelancewrite.about.com/cs/gettingitdone/a/wblock.htm#b
Do a Writing Exercise to help you:
• Confront Your Excuses
• Conquer Doubt
• Invite Creativity
• Get Inspired
• Keep an Inspiration Notebook
Give Your Brain Fifteen Minutes to Stretch...and Play
Revisit a Writing Class/Group that Inspired You
Talk to other writers
When all else fails, READ
www.ivillage.com/books/writer/resource/articles/0,,240830_86151,00.html?arrivalSA=1&arrival_freqCap=2
HOW DO YOU GET INSPIRED?