What do you do when you're suffering writer's block?
I guess you write about not being able to write? Well, I'm trying it anyway. There is some small iota of hope that simply writing, anything, will dislodge whatever seems to have fixed itself to the fibers of my creative mind.
For the past six months I've been hard pressed to get a thousand words a month out, when previously I was managing a thousand a day.
Perhaps some miniscule alien has burrowed through my skull and rewired my brain? Or maybe it laid eggs and a million more little aliens are running amok in there, chewing holes through it. Oh, God! My brain is becoming Swiss cheese as we speak.
Screw it... I think my only salvation lies at the bottom of a beer bottle.
Unless someone else has any suggestions?
Yes?
No?
Okay! BEER IT IS!
Seriously though, if anyone else has been through the dreaded block, and can offer some advice, it would be warmly received.
Thanks.
Maybe you're driving your characters to act out of character. That's usually where my blocks come from. The problem for me is to find the spot where I took a wrong turn. Have you tried writing scenes out of sequence? While I don't use an outline, I have a general idea of where the story is going. I sometimes write a scene that I envision using later in the book. Sometimes I use it, sometimes it doesn't fit by the time I get there and I use it somewhere else. Sometimes it goes in the 'unused scenes' files. Nevertheless, it get's the juices flowing again and sometimes gives me incite into my characters that I was missing before. Hope it helps.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Jackie. I will give it a try. At this point, I'm trying every suggestion handed to me. But that one is a good idea.
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