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User	Blue Monk | 2007-10-26 |
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User	Blue Monk | 2007-10-26 |
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User	MyX | 2007-09-26 |
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Message	Now that is scary. And totally Grim. MyX

User	DaGrimReaperess | 2007-09-25 |
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Message	If I have writers block I go to harborfrieght tool store .its inspiring.

User	Outlaw | 2007-09-25 |
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Message	I don’t exactly think reading is a solution to getting over writer’s block; in some cases I find myself talking to people who just talk about what this person writes in this book or that person in that book and I ask myself... What do YOU think? I don’t know.. maybe it’s just me, but I find that reading like other things has its limits - and I am far from losing inspiration whilst being the less likely to read books.

User	MyX | 2007-09-24 |
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Message	One of the best unobvious cures to the youngsters out there who run out of things to whine about....READING a book from time to time helps a great deal. For those of us beyond that point....try the gibberish...or plain old free association writing...you never know what could happen. My whole problem is big ideas overlapping each other. I have difficulty writing one thing at a time. Inspiration? Never a problem. Not with you clowns lurking around. =) MyX

User	Blue Monk | 2007-09-23 |
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Message	If all else fails, try writing about getting something worthwhile through a case of writer’s block. I’m working on that now.

User	Outlaw | 2007-09-23 |
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Message	For the attention, and to be approved. I agree with MyX. To a certain extent, you’ll never confront writer’s block if you don’t limit your inspiration or your direction in your writing. Most of the time, you hit a wall because you write one thing and what something else, but don’t know how to compromise. Everything the reader says (or doesn’t say in some cases) limits what the writer can or should do if it’s taken too seriously - the more you limit yourself, the more you collide with walls. And in that sense, Mae is also right in saying that inspiration won’t be the issue anymore - life is too big an inspiration for us to not be inspired... Whether or not we allow ourselves to be inspired is the problem.

User	joeyalphabet | 2007-09-23 |
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Message	i suppose it depends on why you’re writing. but if you are writing strictly for yourself, then why post something?

User	Blue Monk | 2007-09-22 |
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Message	One man’s gibberish is another man’s ________. Self expression can manifiest itself in many forms, not all of which even a few might know how to appreciate. Maybe not quite the same, but since I just saw it. In the movie "Lightning in a Bottle" about the getting together of many classic Blue’s stars for one great show on February 7, 2003 in New York, the final performer was B.B. King who told the story of one of his early performances when the audience booed his coming on the stage because it was announced as "blues" when they had never even heard him play before. He broke out in tears as he played his "blues" because the words fit the situation so well, and the audience ended up loving what he did.

User	joeyalphabet | 2007-09-21 |
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Message	i’ve read one or two people (not here) who got angry when i posted a response to their writing telling them it was gibberish. as writers we still have to communicate something...

User	MyX | 2007-09-18 |
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Message	Because feedback changes the way we write....unless of course, you learn the secret that all great writers master. Deafness. -MyX

User	insphered soul | 2007-09-15 |
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Message	How do you figure that one?

User	MyX | 2007-09-15 |
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Message	Let me tell you all a little something about writer’s block. Its the reader’s fault. -MyX

User	kairne | 2007-09-14 |
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Message	well when i get writers block i sit back calm down and take a quick nap then liesurly do something and forget about writing just relax then after a while come back and see if it is gone if it is not take a blank piece of paper and doodle on it or brainstorm on it just keep using your pencil or pen and let natural things flow out of you

User	Jeniffer | 2007-09-13 |
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Message	There are different kinds of writing. What might help you is recreational writing; just write about anything you want, anything you feel. If you don’t feel much, then write about not feeling much. Draw inspiration from lack of inspiration; write a humorous poem that makes fun of writer’s block. Don’t worry if it sounds good or even original, just have fun doing it and it might get some juices flowing. Nothing worsens writer’s block like pushing yourself too hard. Serious writing, the kind you’d want to get published, requires a lot more than a poetic mood. Technique, research, revision, and hard work goes into writing that is likely to be published. If you combine these things with true inspiration, you have the ingredients for great writing.

User	mae | 2007-09-04 |
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Message	Joey’s right. Writing is not just for pouring out emotion - at least not to serious writers. If you have a publisher or if you’re being paid to write, then you write, whether you feel inspired or not. When you’ve been writing for awhile, you learn how to do it, so that it doesn’t require inspiration, necessarily, to write something worthwhile. mae

User	insphered soul | 2007-09-04 |
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Message	I completely agree with joey. As a matter of fact, its something I need to start doing too, I’m having a horrible case of writers block.

User	joeyalphabet | 2007-09-04 |
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Message	Holly, I have to disagree with your advice. Waiting for inspiration that might not come for a while means you don’t write. For me, I find it’s harder to start up again after a layoff. My advice is to try to write every day, even if you think it sucks. You don’t have to show it to anyone. A writer needs to keep in practice just like a musician.

User	hollybear08 | 2007-09-01 |
Subject	my best advice..
Message	is to not try to force writing a great poem on yourself. Wether or not you think it sucks , you should keep all your writings and keep working on it. As for writers block , there is not much you can do. The best thing to do , is to wait for some inspiration. Carry around a notebook and a pen..you never know when a little inspiration is going to spark up.