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User	Logic | 2006-07-05 |
Subject	untitled
Message	Give up then.

User	wondereric | 2006-07-04 |
Subject	untitled
Message	Don’t try. It might be a long time... but it will come if it’s suppose to.

User	usglen | 2006-05-19 |
Subject	missing muse
Message	I find that when I have Writer’s Block that I should do something related to writing such as reading a Writing How to Book. Also I find it helpful to edit some old writings or go through old files. Usually the block goes away. These are just some random thoughts on Writer’s Block

User	Trufflepiggy | 2006-03-16 |
Subject	random genertions
Message	Dragonfly ice block summer dress Dancing queen flower sunblock patio leeches in the swamp sweet smell of pine, pork chops, garbage, gasoline ice melting on the lake in early April ...just some ideas I could throw out :)

User	ChrystalR | 2006-02-02 |
Subject	Datadada...! Hero me
Message	Break up with your boyfriend or cheat on him! Read some fantsy litterature. Tak e a walk in the middle of the night. Get drunk, that often help. Take a stroll in lovely nature. Stand on your head and eat soup and say the first that falls down in your mind. Play word games. Write a word, and then everything that you connect with that word. Dont be afraid to joke and laugh. If you take it too seriously then you have a serious problem!

User	ruejacobs | 2006-01-24 |
Subject	muse missing?
Message	read a book or two on mythology. that usually does it for me. or just have a personal crisis...that can work, too.

User	Raineyes | 2006-01-17 |
Subject	untitled
Message	Ok when experienceing constipation of the brain you should sit for hours being lazy with a way to write and just do stuff that you would normally do when being lazy and hope an idea hits you. . .or I’ve found it helps to just sit down and write about writers block and not worry about wheather or not it’s crap. . .just write and write and write about writers block

User	EV2884 | 2006-01-11 |
Subject	untitled
Message	well what i do is put my poem down when i get writers block and close my eyes and just stop thing off the poem and just relax and try to picture a place like the mountains or something that you like and after you do that the writer’s block should be gone if not i am sorry but that’s what helps me

User	Jason The Basta | 2006-01-11 |
Subject	untitled
Message	"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who’ve learned to dance..." --Alexander Pope Writing is a disipline and that comes from brutal work. Can’t write? Write. Write about not being able to write, whatever. You wrote the theme to this post--That’s writing. A journal is the best, and usually the least intrusive, way to accomplish this. Just log you day at a set time (as well as your time allows) and make yourself write either so much or for so long. Once you’ve made it a habbit, ease will follow and you’ll find you do in fact have things worth saying. It’s all about desciding how much you want it and what you’re willing to do to get it, like anything else. Jason

User	Chell | 2006-01-05 |
Subject	untitled
Message	My Creative Writing professor once told me to carry a notebook- a little one- with me wherever I go. He said to scribble down anything that catches my attention for more than a breif moment; the way an old couple walk hand in hand, the dance between the raindrops and my car’s windshield wipers, the horrible state my hair is in today, the piece of crap car I drive, the homeless person I saw playing guitar on the off-ramp, the noisey upstairs neighbors. Carl Sandburg wrote, "Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years." I find writer’s block not being able to write, but worrying that what I write isn’t good enough, that what I want to write about might be misinterpreted by friends or loved ones, ort hat it just won’t matter to anyone else. When I find that happening, I take a deep breath, grab my notebook, and start scribbling. Usually a piece will just happen out of my scribbles, sometimes it needs some re-working. If you aren’t finding insipration where you are, change location. Go outside and write down sights, smells, feels. Go to the mall and eavesdrop on people passing. Spend a day watching children play. Instead of naming the inability to write, relax, tell yourself that maybe, for right now, your muses want you to be doing something else. Spend some time with humanity- help the Salvation Army for a day, give half your lunch to a homeless person in exchange for their story, take flowers to a retirement home and just listen to an ’elder’. There’s a million things to write about, you just need to figure out what you connect with. Just a couple suggestions...

User	orpheus | 2005-12-19 |
Subject	Writingblock
Message	Hi...perhaps you can edit your old work and find inspiration there...or draw mind maps of the subject matter you most wish to write about...or you can try write about the person you know better than anyone...yourself!...or you can write about writers block...;)

User	B-Gentle | 2005-12-17 |
Subject	Early Writters Block
Message	Sara, I was 19 when I had writer’s block. I can feel you pain. I couldn’t write or do anything. I had it for at least a year and a half. Finally I got the urge to write. When I finished that piece of artistry it felt as if it was the first one I had written. Sometimes writter’s block gives you time to take in the next stage that life has to offer you. Once your brain is tired of receiving information it will allow you to transmit the information to the paper or computer whether through pen or hand. Don’t be discouraged. Your writers block will end sooner than you think. Mine lasted as long as it did because I wasn’t ready to let go of it. Your block will end when you least expect it.