Serious/long-term writers block question: What Ive tried/been trying has 100% stopped working (see list and results) and Ive now tapped out my resources of what all has worked for me in the past. Hoping perhaps the hivemind here may have more/different/advanced/ideas/suggestions... something? Tried so far: Inspiration/Ideas? check and check. Tons. Drafts and starts? check. Again, tons. Not editing during the creative process? check. Not worrying if its enough of anything/something...? Mostly check. Variety of original tunes locked in my head waiting for words, choruses waiting for verses, songs/tunes to potentially make a deritive work (filk/contra fe) from something for the sheer heck of it? check. Writing to just sit down and write *anything*? - shakey fits and starts. Writing a clear statement of what I want to write about? check. Going back to the outline, &/or the what if and then what next? basics...? - shakey. Getting something/anything to a first rough draft stage? - not really. Getting anything to a stage of finishing and polishing? - near total flatline, nada. Trying to sort out when/why this started? -work in process. But late 2012/early 2013 seems about right, and life is very likely in the answer mix somewhere. But my last finished original works, I think, were probably Santa Lucias Lullaby in 2012, and Valkerye started late 2012; which is still not quite locked, polished, and/or done 20 months later. Ive even tried the whole - give up trying to write anything for anyone but yourself...? zilch. Write in a different medium? Unless you count the speech I did for an elevation, the documentation I do for work, research essays Ive been picking at, or my rambly thought essays in FB Land ...not so much. Even the free/open verse poetry where I initially started writing from (some published in a variety of places) 25+ years ago has been a dry well. Walk away from it for a while, take a break, be creative some other way - come back with a fresher brain...? Not so much with the working and is becomming annoyingly frustrating - which I know likely isnt helping things. Dont try so hard, dont force it, let the words flow like a river, do not look at the fish? ...oh look! fish! what was I doing again? right. staring at a blank page and resisting the urge to alternate between various typing exercises and creepy typing quotes from movies. Ive added a few of others songs into the lineup as the mood strikes me - but its almost like my own voice, the words that should flow with the tunes in my head, ...are just... stuck. Silenced? Stifled? Gargh-blarg & Yargle-Fargle. I cant even find word(s) or an analogy to describe the block Im trying to get around. So Im posting here and wondering - has anyone else who is a writer (song/story/poetry ...anything creative) experienced something like this for a long period for whatever reason? How did you break the deadlock? Did it just resolve itself and you got back to writing? Any tricks of the trade for serious/long-term writers block not typically discussed on other writers block threads? Any better questions I could be asking myself (or you all?)? Any ideas appreciated... If you made it this far thanks for reading! -Lorelei
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 20:20:45 +0000
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