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User	Logic | 2006-07-05 |
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Message	Writers always have something to write about. Find a new hobby or a friend.

User	Rokhal | 2006-07-05 |
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Message	Read some poetry. Try to mimick a poem you like: think about the style or the metrical pattern, and maybe you won’t get discouraged feeling your writing is empty.

User	wondereric | 2006-07-04 |
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Message	A tip from Tori Amos. everything that comes to mind write it down. even if it’s one line or one word. I started doing this and when I go back I see that some of the lines fit I just didn’t know it at the time.

User	dismentled | 2006-05-17 |
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Message	just chill man, I had like a three month long writers block. It’ll come when it’s time, Just don’t force it. Usually when you have writers block for a long period you end up writing something that’s the fucking shyt. Just feel it out, if you do what i’m saying, you’ll know what I mean. even now I’ll go a month or and not write anything, and than I’ll write 5 in a day or something, you’ll figure it out.

User	DavidHirt | 2006-04-29 |
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Message	That isn’t all poetry is Dragon. If it was just spilling your emotional guts on the page, anybody coukld do that. And if you were in tune to what you were feeling, you wouldn’t need the poem to come to grips with it, would you.

User	SavedDragon | 2006-04-27 |
Subject	Stop
Message	Your thinking too much about what your writing, you need to relax and listen to your heart. Be more open towards what you are really feeling and just have the ability to spill that on paper. It helps but you have to be in the right moment to start writing again and you must feel inspired. Hope I helped you at least a little.

User	Amanda Lynn | 2006-04-27 |
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Message	I get the same way. Sometimes it goes on for months then one day i start writing and volumes pour fourth. It might just be me but i think all writers do. I feel if you write 24-7 eventually it starts getting repetitiouse and then starts sounding false. <shrug> AL

User	joeyalphabet | 2006-04-27 |
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Message	Try reading poetry and prose. I often get inspired with ideas when I read other peoples’ work.

User	DavidHirt | 2006-04-27 |
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Message	SA, I would suggest you get yourself a book of lists of poetic forms. When you have nothing to write about personally, then take a form and play with it. At least, then, you’ll have accomplished something that has craft to it, and you’ll improve your ability at craft, and can point to it and know you did something difficult. Writing is a discipline like anything else you might pursue. Sometimes you have to take the good with the bad to make the good that much better. Though I admit I often fall into the same trap.

User	SetmyselfonFire | 2006-04-17 |
Subject	it happens
Message	I go through that alot. writing just comes to me.But sometimes Ive spill out so much emotion in my poems, I realize that I dont have much emotion left. So I worry and I get uncomfortable and Im scared that Ive lost all my ability to vent on everything but I do relax after awhile, I listen to music, I observe people, and nomatter what the feeling is , I take the next thing I feel strongly about and I put it into poetry. and yes I have gone months without inpiration because then you give time to yourself to live and go through emotions before spilling them out again. keep yourself at peace.

User	rounin | 2006-03-14 |
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Message	Hey, I can tell that this isn’t a normal case of writer’s block, cause I think I have it too. I too can only think of things that I don’t stand behind. Perhaps its an identity crisis... can’t say that I’ve found a remedy for it. For most of my... problems, the answer is always stop worrying. When you worry and think about things too hard, they tend to turn out bad. So don’t worry. If you really have the passion for writing in you, it’ll always come out in time.

User	oceaneyes | 2006-03-06 |
Subject	well
Message	i say listen to music. thats my muse... it gives me rythems and words and topics and emotions. i bet it can do the same for you. also, don’t force the words out of your mouth, because it never ends up right or honest. just let it come, and if need-be, take a break.

User	mae | 2006-01-23 |
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Message	Oh man! I do that all the time! Sorry. Try writing about something that you DON’T have great feeling for, e.g., describe the lamp at your bedside; the plant in the livingroom; your mother’s dishes. Describe them so that someone reading your piece WILL have great feeling for that object. Understand that this is just an exercise, but it will help. You know, not everything produces great feeling, but you can, really, write about anything. Write about little events in your day. Just start telling about them and insight will most likely come to you about WHY you remember this particular event or aspect. Write about anything. Not everything has to be or even should be written for submission on ES. mae

User	mae | 2006-01-23 |
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Message	Try writing about something that you DON’T

User	abuzzbuzz92 | 2006-01-23 |
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Message	Open the tv and see the events around you - violence - peace - nature - umm..... well thats alll iguess .... best way to get inspired

User	Jason The Basta | 2006-01-23 |
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Message	Drown some puppies and write a haiku.

User	Metauru | 2006-01-22 |
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Message	Daydream. That’s where all the the best ideas come from (or so I’ve heard...)

User	Rozie | 2006-01-20 |
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Message	Get a piece of paper and put your name in the middle of the paper :) Anything that comes into your head, write it down.. In a matter of minutes you’ll have a big spider diagram of things that you’re currently thinking of it. Go back to it after a while and pick a word from the diagram and make another mini spider diagram and write words that are connected to the word.. overtime you’ll have words and connotations associating a particular emotion or event :)

User	un_written | 2006-01-17 |
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Message	Sometimes it helps to just sit with your pen to a pice of paper until words come out. Even if theyre just jibberish. Maybe you can use them.

User	Darke_Valentine | 2005-11-24 |
Subject	In seriousness
Message	In all seriousness my friend. Stop writing poetry for a week or so, don’t even think about it. Start looking in the news, or just look at life around you. You are like a glass my friend. You can hold feeling inside that glass, but if you keep pouring it out into your poetry then it will empty. You just need to take some time out, let the glass refill. Do not seek inspiration, just coast along, elax for a week and then go back to the desk and see what comes to you. The longer you keep trying to pour emotion into your work, the more you’re going to need some R&R to get away from that and refill. So, like I said, just don’t even think of writing and do regular stuff. Play games, read the news, just watch life pass by. I garauntee you’ll have something to write about when you sit down at the end of the week...