What do you do when you get writer’s block?
I like to write fanfictions and other short stories that I post online. If you’ve ever written a story, would you have advice for what to do when you get writer’s block?
- pottergirl94
Tags: Advice, Short Stories, Writer S Block
January 27th, 2009 at 9:43 am
i write about wat happend that day
January 28th, 2009 at 6:30 am
Take a break and write when inspiration sparks back to you in some way
January 31st, 2009 at 12:35 pm
i draw some pictures and by the time i can’t draw any more i can usually write something again
rinse, repeat
February 3rd, 2009 at 1:38 pm
I listen to the news and play solitaire. It gets my mind off things
February 4th, 2009 at 4:47 am
read, take a walk, exercise. Gets the blood and creative juices flowing. Also for some reasons showers break my block too.
February 6th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
I am having that problem right now. What I usually do is find something else to do, like answering questions on the internet, and hope that I get a sudden inspiration. It atleast helps me find a few ideas.
February 8th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Play the piano for awhile until it subsides.
Are you really a potter? I’ve been wanting to take up potter for so long! If you don’t mind, would you post the answer to one of my questions or email me? I have questions!!
Another great thing for writer’s block is listening to music.
February 9th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Take a break and do something that is sure to make you focus entirely on something else so that you forget all about your story. Then go back to it more refreshed later. You might even get a sudden inspiration while you have your mind off it doing something else.
February 13th, 2009 at 12:57 am
-drink alcohol :/
-exercise
-go to new places
-meet new people
sometimes all at once!
February 13th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
I listen to my favorite/new music. Eventually I’ll hear a song that inspires me.
February 14th, 2009 at 11:57 am
Great question. I myself am writing a novel, and I get the block constantly! Soo annoying. The only thing that helps me is to take a nice warm shower and just relax and not think about anything. Once I am relaxed enough, the words simply start to pop into my head. I take a voice recorder into the bathroom with me and I will say the thoughts out loud, so I don’t forget them. Once I get out of the shower, I play back my recorded thoughts, and then more start coming forth as I’m listening to myself think out loud. Make sense? :- ) I hope it helps you, it helps me all the time!
February 15th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
get your mind off it like take a nap or go do something with friends
February 18th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
listen to some of your favorite songs and imagine your story as a movie & where that song would fit. flip through songs until you find one that is perfect and you’ll start imagining what happens next and stuff
February 18th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
when i get writers block i don’t force myself to write, it’s as simple as that. writing isn’t something that should ever be forced. when i get stuck, i take time to rest, go on a walk with my ipod, listen to some music & clear my head.
i’ll look at photography or art also to become inspired.
February 20th, 2009 at 12:58 am
‘Writer’s block’ isn’t actually some sort of physical disorder, nor even something that truly exists. What it is the symptom of other internal, psychological issues that deal with any number of struggles and issues the writer themselves might be preoccupied with. Put simply, it is about something other than the material unless the issue is the material itself. Often people have serious problems with finishing stories (likely with finishing most things in their lives). These are the prevaricators, those who love to talk about their work and who desperately crave praise of any sort, or acknowledgment of the genius these folks are convinced that they possess. But the first hovering doubt, the first slap or rejection and/or an internal issue of logic (often occuring after an edit prior to the completion of the actual text) and the mind slips, the difficulties mount and the desire wanes.
‘Writer’s block’ sounds like a crude sort of excuse, an ‘I just can’t do it–I have writer’s block’. This is like a nervous musings of a late-blooming virgin perplexed by their situational impotence throughout a posed sexual opportunity. The only ’cause’ is the writer’s distraction, pre-occupation with something else or a menacing sense of self-doubt. If trapped by this, go over the entire text and re-write it before moving forward. This should energize either the engines that prompted story-telling in the first place or shoot down the final, flickering bird of ambition, enabling a rather hopeless resolution to set it.