04-19-2012, 03:24 PM | #16 |
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04-25-2012, 03:33 PM | #17 |
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To be honest im seriously jelous now. I havenet touched any of my stories in years and years!
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04-25-2012, 04:28 PM | #18 |
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04-25-2012, 09:01 PM | #19 |
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I use NaNoWriMo as an opportunity to take a break from whatever novel/series I'm working on and play with whatever weird idea pops into my mind. I also have a journal where I jot down ideas for new novels; sometimes just working out some of the practical obstacles to a plot concept on paper helps take some of the seductive edge off those ideas that just pop into your brain when you're working on another project.
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04-25-2012, 09:39 PM | #20 |
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To me the opposite of Writer's Block is Writer's Overload where you have too bloody much in your head and fingers too slow to write it all down before your brain explodes. lol.
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04-25-2012, 09:45 PM | #21 |
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04-26-2012, 03:37 PM | #22 |
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I could only DREAM of having this problem, lol! As it is, each project of mine takes so much time from conception to completion, just because I have to let ideas percolate for a really long time. Count yourself as one of the lucky ones. As someone else mentioned though, I would be careful of it becoming a situation where you're really great at starting stuff and not so great at finishing it. Other than that...ride the wave!
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04-27-2012, 08:49 AM | #23 |
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Deidre, yeah, that's gotten to be my case now too. I used to have ideas exploding in my mind all the time. So many in fact that I had trouble getting them down fast enough. or in a coherent way. Now I have to go through a ritual of "checking in" to the world before I start my writing and blocking out all external distractions before I start writing. I remember a famous author once said that something like this would happen, and they were totally write. I don't remember their exact quote but it was something along the lines of "When you begin, the ideas and words will gush from you like a spring of water. But as you mature and the more you write, the longer and more in depthly you will have to live in the world before you can write about it."
I've somewhat reached that stage where I have to live in a world for a while before I can write anything about it. I think it involves how you "see" your world. I'm also fairly certain that writers block is simply failure by the writer to fully see their world. It's like writing about your family. The better you know them the better you're able to write about them. |
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I've heard the OP's experience called "Worldbuilder's Disease" in one of my writing books. It's easy to get bogged down in background data and not get to the actual story very quickly. Which isn't to say that that stuff isn't important or can't suggest stories, but it can get out of hand in short order I understand.
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