You know, it just figures that as soon as I make a ProU account my thoughts stop. I'm not feeling inspired to do anything, not feeling any drive to make a motion - just nothing. Usually, I would call this "writer's block," but I don't think it is that: it has more to do with the high expectation of myself to write something good. And not just "okay," because that more or less is a euphemism for mediocrity, and no one wants that.
I've read about lots of things people do to help get rid of their "writer's block," and many of them are quite efficient in solving what they seek to. But for me, meditating induces poems about nature, chewing gum gives me an incurable tone of sarcasm, and writing the first thing that comes to mind always ends up being some weird stream-of-conscience piece about food.
So, what now?
Well. I have discovered that writing about not being able to write clears the problem up about 80% of the time. Of course there needs to be that little bit of a desire to write, otherwise I will shrug the thought of putting in effort away and watch episode after episode of House M.D for as long as I can stand heated battles over JRA symptoms and Lyme Disease. 'Course swollen Lymph Nodes are not necessarily my cup o' tea, but the fascination of knowledge keeps me astute to discourse.
AH-HAH!
Slowly, ever so slowly, my vocabulary returns, my prose flows and stops flowing when it should . . . It would appear as if I have come to. [^ ^]V
Haha.
Whenever I have writer's block I just keep writing about my childhood.
For whatever reason, that ALWAYS works.
I play games or listen to music to loosen my block away
Published Author and Poet
Teacher Education Student.
Well, in terms of here on ProU, one way you can cure that writer's block is just to go through a bunch of news articles; see if anything inspires you to write.
~C
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