Anybody with demolition experience...

[gridlore]

.. know how to rig C-4 to blow Writer's Block?

This empty screen is mocking me. All the words and ideas are right behind my eyes, swirling there like jets stacked up over an airport, but the runways are closed..

I'm trying my usual tricks, writing something other than Traveller, writing haiku about the Giants

Ninth inning, our lead
Vanishes in summer fog
Bullpen blows the save.

But not one word is coming through.

*headdesk*

Comments

[deathbytamarind.livejournal.com]

When you figure how to make writer's block your prison bitch, let me know. I've been suffering from it for about two years now.

And here's some haiku for you.

Relief pitching not
Time bombs that threaten the lead
Is what we need now

[persimmon.livejournal.com]

Write anything at all. Shopping list, obscene limericks, revised nursery rhymes, naming all the objects you can see that have corners, lyrics to a song, until you have more than 300 words on the page. Save the page, print it, then find the 17th, 43rd and 171st words on that page, incorporate these into a sentence. Then ask the next person you see to name three numbers from 200 - 300, and use those words in the next sentence.
Total your phone number, subtract it from 300, add up sequentially the numbers remaining - and THAT word starts the next sentence.

This is much less headache-causing than banging your head against the desk, reasonable problem solving, and it gets you past the omigawd stage. Fingers crossed for you.

[isomeme.livejournal.com]

My more-often-than-not fix is to get up from my desk and walk away until a ready-for-writing idea forms in my head, whether that takes until I reach the door or the next town. Often I find that simply changing scenery and activity level is enough to dislodge the block. Also, having that usable idea and not being able to type it right away (as you walk back) builds energy and gives you time to further pester the Muse while she's in the neighborhood.

Here's my baseball haiku:

Excitement in stands
Mom is screaming, cats are scared
Must be a good thing.

[kengr]

Dunno if this will help, but the last time I got stuck on a story (I just could *not* figure out what was going to happen next), I thought about what I *did* know would happen later.

I was ablre to write some of *that* and *then* the ideas on what would happen in between came.

Try wroiting *something*, *anything*.

Heck if all else fails write Ditzie into a porn story. :-)

[drewkitty.livejournal.com]

The answer to writer's block is simple.

Chain self to keyboard.

Type. Type anything.

Sentence yourself to an hour of this.

You will find yourself typing something that gives you practice at writing.

And if nothing else I would expect to see long LJ posts whining about your writer's block!

Cheers.

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

What're you trying to write about?

[tsjafo.livejournal.com]

I wish writer's block were suceptible to C4, as I've got a near terminal case. *sigh* Well, the only good thing that can be said for writer's block is that its a sure cure for writers cramp.

[todkaninchen.livejournal.com]

Try writing action adventure...

...in either Dick and Jane style or Dr. Seuss...

...simple, difficult, really wierd.

(Bonus pounts for totally inappropriate content.)