What do you prefer song lyrics or written poetry?
Has poetry now become outdated by the music of modern bands, artists preferring to write lyrics for albums, rather than for literary collections?
- antagonist_bitch
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-songwriters- methods for writing songs, overcoming writers block?
I know everyone is different in their approach to writing any given song, but I’ve been encountering a bit of writers block in the last six or eight months and want to know what others do to overcome this blank feeling and get back to making music.
- Syme
Writers block! say it aint so?
Ok so i have a major writers block and ive got the stories plot, the beginning, middle and end, and a few events inbetween! but when it comes to connecting them im at a total loss =’( can any one help? I need music that will put me in an inspired mood. I like Katethegreat19 from youtube, rock, punk, pop, but absolutly no rap and hip hop the newer stuff make my brain block even more thanks for any help ^^
- Darkriver
How do you know that a poem you have written is good enough to submit for music to be added to it?
I have written lots of poems and have had some published. How would you know if a poem is good enough to have music added to it? Where would you go to find this out?
- Silverbell
This writers block is driving me mad?
I’ve tried everything. I have a plot but whenever i write it down it turns into a pile of bulls***. Ive listened to music and tried inspiring myself with every single thing possible. No results what should I do!!??
- A wand is mightier than a bite
Writers block is one of those mysterious ailments that is blamed for late assignments, missed deadlines, and failed dreams. Some people claim it is merely a myth while others find it plagues their writing.
As someone with more than two decades of professional writing, editing and teaching experience I feel quite strongly that in 99.9 percent of reported cases of writers block are nothing more than a chimera. In my opinion, far too many would-be writers spend far too much time and energy on finding the right computer, program, paper, pen, location, mood-setting music, and the like before they can begin writing when that time and energy would be much better spent on simply getting down to the business of writing. These would-be writers treat their muse as something delicate and breakable, something as elusive and fleeting as smoke.
I know from years spent in the hurly-burly of newspaper reporting and snatching moments to write between deadlines and dinner dishes that a muse worth keeping is made of much tougher material and in fact may benefit from some abuse.
Most often writers block, or what is commonly referred to as writers block, is caused by one of three problems–lack of preparation, lack of training, and lack of development. Lack of preparation is often caused by not creating an individual writing process that can take advantage of your writing strengths and help overcome your writing weaknesses. Lack of training is similar to athletic training–you need to warm up and work out on a regular schedule to keep your writing muscles in top condition. Lack of development simply means that your particular idea may need more time to percolate or perhaps you are not ready to tackle that particular topic at the time.
I have three recommendations to help you work through writers block. First is to simply write through it. Give yourself permission to write garbage and focus on simply creating a really rough draft. Often once you stop worrying over all that is wrong with your writing the words will begin flowing again.
A second method of dealing with writers block is to get moving. Take a walk or hike. Do something physical away from your office or desk and do not let yourself return to the scene of the crime (or writers block) until several hours have passed. You might be surprised what your brain works out in the interim.
Finally, exercise and challenge your writing muscles with writing prompts and exercises. Sometimes simply changing the pace of your writing or your subject matter can be enough to help you work through your difficulty.
Remember, every writer experiences some form of writers block from time to time but you do not have to make a mountain out of a molehill. Working out an effective strategy to circumvent writers block when it strikes is one of the most important skills a real writer can develop.
- Deanna Mascle
Writing can be one of the most challenging skills you can ever master. Some people find writing incredibly easy whilst others will sit for days just to push out one single article. One of the challenges all writers will face at some time is writers block. Essentially writers block occurs when the words you are trying to articulate just do not come out in the manner you wish. In some cases you may find, during writers block that you have no inspiration to write an article or do not know how to start it.
Writers block for me usually occurs when I am stressed and overworked so there are three things I recommend you try to break out of a case of writers block.
Item #1 - List Points and Write A Paragraph on the Points
When I am really challenged at writing an article I will go back to the basics. First of all I will write my heading which simply defines what I am writing about. The next step I follow is to write simple list points on what I want to cover in my article. For example in this article I wanted to give you three tips on how to over come writers block. I simply wrote them as -
Item 1. List Points and Write A Paragraph on The Points
Item 2. Meditation
Item 3. Listen to Music
Most web articles need to be a minimum of 600 words for article directories to accept them so by simply writing two or three paragraphs for each item, it will not take long to meet the criteria of 600 words.
Using this technique makes creating articles like, Seven Tips to … Four Strategies for etc really simple. By listing the items you want to share and writing a paragraph or two for each item you will easily and quickly create your article.
Finally, to complete your article simply write a lead in paragraph to the first item and a lead out paragraph after the last item to conclude your article and before you know it, you will have another fully written article.
Item #2 - Meditate
Whenever I find it really difficult to write I simply go and do a good 20 minutes of meditation. What you will find is that when you meditate, if you are doing it correctly, it should help you to clear your mind and to bring you to focus. The objective of meditation is to take the chaos we go through every single day, and to move the chaos into some form of order. Once you achieve this you will then be able to reflect on your inner self and find peace.
Okay, I can hear it now, “Oh Yeah Hippy, Want Us to Meditate do ya?” Absolutely! Look whilst meditation has certainly been a thing of fringe groups in western society or associated with eastern religions many researchers are now coming to the distinct conclusion that meditation can make a huge difference to our day-to-day lives and helps us to overcome stress and in particular writers block.
The core advantage meditation will play in your life is to help you to relax and deal with challenging situations more effectively. The more relaxed you are the more creative you can be in dealing with your creative issues. I certainly recommend that when you are meditating, that you use baroque music with your meditation as it will help increase the alpha waves which will help lead you to a calm feeling. This is especially useful if you do not have a long period to meditate. I recommend a 20 minute meditation session at least once a day preferably two. You will be really surprised the difference it makes to your day. Just try it out, you have nothing to loose and a few hundred articles to gain.
Personally I find after a good meditation session I can pump out five to ten articles which I think is a great way to get ahead.
Item #3 - Listen to Music
Listening to music is a great way to beat writers block however, be warned, some music can in fact make your writers block worse. The sort of music you should be listening to is Baroque Music at 60 beats per minute. Research has shown that this type of music actually releases alpha waves in both our left and right sides of our brains. In doing this, it helps us to fell calm, similar to whistling a happy tune.
The “Alpha” state of mind is ideal for developing articles as it heightens creativity and learning. Many of my colleagues use Baroque music in their memory learning seminars specifically because Baroque Music heightens the learning and creativity parts of the brain.
Writers block can be one of the great challenges you will have to face at some stage in your writing career. These three items I have listed above have helped me breeze through a writers block saga and ensure that I can effectively continue to do the work I enjoy. Just to finish off I want to reiterate the three things I recommend you try if you are suffering writers block:
Item #1 - List Points and Write A Paragraph on the Points
Item #2 - Meditate
Item #3 - Listen to Music
- Chris Le Roy
How do you break writers block?
I have had awful writers block for upwards of two years now and it is driving me nuts…I used to write novels, novelas, poetry, lyrics everything! Now I cant even work out a haiku, which I used to do weather I ment to or not! I have tried;
Different locations, different experiences, timed writing, blogging, writing ‘assignments’, music, and everything else I can think of…is there anything I maybe havent tried yet?
- khaozkitten
need help with writers block
anyone know a way to give rid of writers block i used to write music all the time but over a year now ever since me and my gf broke up i haven’t been able to and ive tried diff styles about diff things and still nothing
- kbquestions
