Defeating Writer’s Block with Bad Art
Writer’s block is a minor problem that can strike an author at anytime, and become a significant obstacle to a person’s career. For an author, overcoming this block can be the difference between meeting a deadline or not. Thus, gaining any strategies to overcome it is beneficial for the writer, and today I will describe such a strategy for you.
This strategy is similiar to the strategy of inspiration, but works in reverse. Whereas with literary inspiration, you partake in art if only to inspire you upon ideas that will help with your writing. Or maybe this inspiration will have no direct effect on you, but simply get you thinking in such a way as you will be able to develope your writing more effectively.
I believe, however, that looking at bad art, or listening to bad music, or even reading a bad book is actually very gainful for a writer. It will have the same effect as reading a good book in that it introduces you to new concepts or puts you in a different state of mind. But in addition, works that you judge, or that your target market has overwhelmingly judged as ‘bad’ will give you an idea of things you shouldn’t do in your writing, as well as should inspire you to think up ways that the ‘bad’ writing could be improved. This process itself will help you break your own block, and continue writing.
I hope this small, very precise theory will help you develope your own ways of combating writing obstacles, and help you “BEAT THE BLOCK!”
- Emperor
