help. some form of writers block. 911! :/?
so i keep having these great titles for stories popping up in my head… and they relate to issues in my life.. i write to get my feelings out. but lately im not sure how to do it. i want to become more serious with my writing. my teachers say im talented and i should try to do something beyond school work so i figure whats gonna hurt to try? so… for example of my writers block:
i quit softball and i bought these new brand on cleats.. very expensive.. and i miss the sport. my dad, who was my coach for 14 years and biggest fan, is disappointed and i feel like i let myself down. but because of reasons that i cant explain here… i cant play any more. and well something keeps telling me to write about it, but i dont want it to be plain and be like “this is what happened. i quit, i cant play, and i have these new cleats that haunt me every day about quitting because theyre sitting in a box and bug me.” well the title would be “Brand New Ringors”… i know it needs some work, but the work cant come until the story does!
(and dont worry… i dont write like i talk, meaning to clarify that i know i probably seem like a bad writer right now because im not using any form of any kind.)
i HAVE tried to start several different stories but nothing seems quite right to fit.. to get my feelings out.
but basically what im trying to ask is how to overcome this hill… and what the best way to go about doing it is, and getting started. i never have this problem.. so i dont have a clue as to how to fix it.
any help??
- hns2715
Tags: 911, Clue, Coach, Dad, Feelings, Ringors, Softball, Theyre, Writer's Block
December 28th, 2008 at 1:26 am
The thing I do is just keep writing. Even if I know I am writing crap, I write it down and I figure “I will edit it out later”, eventually I start writing something better. No really. It works. Write each morning, write where your words take you and jsut see what happens. I fyou write on a computer it is so easy to erase the bad stuff after the fact. A lot of people stop writing (get blocked) when they aren’t saying what they want… but the words will and do come as long as you keep writing.
December 29th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Write whatever comes whenever it comes.
Don’t think about how each part connects to the next.
You say you’re writing, you just don’t think anything is good. Well, that’s not writer’s block!!! That’s self-doubt, and every writer has it to some extent.
Don’t read what you wrote until a few months later, and you’ll see that your feelings did come through, and maybe you’ll be able to tie some parts together so you have the beginnings of a book.
Remember, Rome wasn’t built in a day! Some famous books took five years or more to write.
December 30th, 2008 at 7:24 am
Perhaps you need to write more of a journal right now, to sort out your feelings about softball, why you wanted to quit, why you regret it. Don’t worry about ‘the story’, just write your feelings. Once you get perspective on what happened, I bet the story will come to you.