Map the Dragon
Sage
What's your best cure?
What's your best cure?
An assignment deadline. I always seem to do the most writing when I've got something else to do. Take Saturday for example. I was on campus, surrounded by books and articles about ancient Corinth for an assignment I handed in yesterday (20 minutes late), and I spent about 4 hours writing my novel instead of working. Then on Sunday and Monday I banned myself from writing fiction, promising I could write all I wanted after my project was submitted, and last night I just couldn't write at all.
In all seriousness, though, there are three things that get my writing juices flowing. One, as Black Dragon said, is a walk. There's a park not far from where I live and beyond that is a pedestrianised Victorian road lined with massive trees and fancy railings, and it has really nice houses along it and the city museum and some sizable green areas. If it's nice weather out, I head up there and just walk into town and back. The second thing that sometimes enables me to get back on track with writing is a shower. A long, hot, stress-free shower. I get many of my best ideas in the shower. Number three is music. Generally when I write I have a selection of music - an album or several albums by the same artist - that I associate with that novel. Listening to that music gets me in the mood for writing that novel. Part of the reason I started working on my novel on Saturday was because I was listening to a shuffled playlist of some 250 of my favourite songs, and one of the songs that came on was from the album I associate with the novel I'm writing at the moment. (On Sunday and Monday I didn't listen to that playlist any more; I put on my studying albums instead).
Every writer at one time or another suffers from writer’s block. It’s that painful inability to get your thoughts down on paper and it comes after all different kinds of writers.And one major key to beating it is to not let it stop you. writer’s block is not cured by taking two aspirins and going to bed. Different writers experience different creative blocks, different treatments are often advisable. way to get bogged down and overwhelmed is editing as you compose. Going back over the same sentence or paragraph time and time again will only help you to lose the train of thought that could result in a great work.What's your best cure?