How do you guys get around a writer's block?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-14 10:16pm

I'm not sure if it's full-fledged writer's block, but I have a fanfic I started a month or a few more ago and I have two more chapters to go. But I never seem to get around to finishing it.

Woe becomes me!

Anyway, how do you guys get around your writer's blocks?

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2003-02-14 10:17pm

If I figured that out I woulndt have thousands of scribbled notepad files....I'd have a full blown story

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-02-14 10:20pm

And additional woe:

I've promised myself to finish this one before I start on stuff I plan to post here.

More woe becomes me!!!

Enuf whining.

Post by **Kuja** » 2003-02-14 10:20pm

Shinova wrote:Anyway, how do you guys get around your writer's blocks?

I do a variety of things.

Listen to music, any kind.
Play video games.
Go for a walk.
Read a book.
Read other fanfics.
Spam the board.

Eat something.
Put it aside completely for a while.
Ask for assisstance.
Write down all my ideas for the future on a list and read them over and over.
Write down an outline for what I think I want, and change as I feel like it.
Start another fanfic (this may sound crazy, but I swear to god it works).
Write down random shit.
Watch TV.

I get my ideas from all over, and I never know when one will pop up.

Grand Admiral Thrawn · Post by **Grand Admiral Thrawn** » 2003-02-14 10:32pm

Totally ignore thinking about the story. Thinking too much gives me terrible ideas.

Post by **Steve** » 2003-02-14 10:57pm

Try something else for a little while. And if you feel like you can't create period, don't. Take a break from writing. Sometimes you have to. Play games, watch more TV, just chat online, things like that.

desertjedi · Post by **desertjedi** » 2003-02-15 12:14am

I write a little, not Star Wars or Fan Fiction or anything like that, but there are a few things I like to do when the dreaded writer's block rears it's ugly head:
walk away from the whole thing, keep your mind off of it completely by distracting yourself. I love to exercise when I have writer's block, get's the blood flowing, but TV, movies, and music help alot to. Any type of music or movie that sparks an emotional response really helps, whether it's anger or sadness.. the emotion helps alot.

That's just my two cents.. take or leave it...
Just remember to have fun when writing!

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-02-15 02:25am

Writers block is best cured y avoiding it in the first place by doing a rough outline of a chapter, then refining it to the point where its a viable chater. That way kind of sucks though, so if you get writers block my advice is "Sandwich, Orange Soda, Cartoons, a nap, then rereading previous works in no particular orders"

Isolder74 · Post by **Isolder74** » 2003-02-15 02:46am

My way is to put the story back on the shelf for a couple of days watch a few movies, take a walk around the block. Read the newspaper you'd be amazed how many Ideas come from news stories. My hardest thing to come upo with that often gets me stuck is names for new characters. The cure for this one is a good old phone book. Take the Book flip the pages back and forth open it and slam down your finger and that's your first name reapeat for middle and last names if it turns out silly start over.

Post by **Dalton** » 2003-02-15 02:51am

For me? Well...I'll usually read some other fanfics or play some video games. Music helps too.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-02-15 03:23am

I tend to play something like Hitman 1 or 2 or GTA3.

Release the stress.

Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi · Post by **Asst. Asst. Lt. Cmdr. Smi** » 2003-02-15 08:56pm

I'd reccomend going into some subplot, or introducing new characters. It should eventually take you to the end of the story.

Post by **Edi** » 2003-03-05 04:25am

Writing some events further along in the story if you have the general outline of what's going to happen when straight, then come back to the blocked part later. and also the variety of methods everyone else suggested.

Edi

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-03-05 08:37am

Edi wrote:Writing some events further along in the story if you have the general outline of what's going to happen when straight, then come back to the blocked part later. and also the variety of methods everyone else suggested.

Edi

Works quite well, for me. Granted, near as I can tell, everybody here thinks my work is crap cause they never comment on it, but no matter

*whimpers in corner*

Quite whining, and write better, idiot. As to you Shinova. It helps to get your mind off of the story for some random amount of time. How you do that is up to yourself.

*Composes self*

Working on soimething else, although you have stated you don't want to work on anything else until your done, can help. (Personal experiance)It helped me out. I did "Infinite Fun"</pimp> *Pathetic!* to get my mind off of something else I'm writing. Worked quite well.

Larz · Post by **Larz** » 2003-03-05 11:02am

Relieve the stress, because stress only makes writers block stay with you, and even become a shadow (to much stress in my life has lead to me forgetting that I was even trying to write a fanfic... I've progressed 1 sentance since December...)

Drink tea, play games, listen to music. Going out on walks and people watching tend to help mental juices to start chugging. Also you could go and look at art, or a mueseum, or something like that. Looking at new and interesting things really helps to break apart mental rigidness.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-03-05 08:32pm

they say writers block happens when a writer doesnt know where or why he is at that point of the story. I suggest you go back and find out why you put the characters into that situation, because if theyre there for a reason, they should do whatever it is theyre meant to be doing.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-03-05 08:57pm

A glass of Jack on the rocks and a cigarette usually clear the blockage out of my brain. This may not, however, be an ideal solution for you.

Captain Cyran · Post by **Captain Cyran** » 2003-03-05 09:18pm

Hit your head on the nearest metal object around oh...3 times, take an advil, and start writing. Works for me everytime.

Post by **haas mark** » 2003-03-06 06:01am

Ignore it. I find writing poetry soothes my muses, so to speak, an I can then write later.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2003-03-07 07:50am

Get off my ass and actually start writing again.

Which reminds me...

Singular Quartet · Post by **Singular Quartet** » 2003-03-07 08:34am

Captain_Cyran wrote:Hit your head on the nearest metal object around oh...3 times, take an advil, and start writing. Works for me everytime.

Were looking for "Cures for writers block" not "Easy ways to cause brain damage."

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-03-07 11:55am

I got around that "block" by the way. Thanks for everything, peoples.

kojikun · Post by **kojikun** » 2003-03-08 11:57pm

how'd you do it shino?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2003-03-09 12:51am

kojikun wrote:how'd you do it shino?

It wasn't actually a block, per se. The hard part was actually starting on the next segment.

Once I finally got to just getting to the work, I got it finished.

That fic's finally done! MUHAHAHAHAHAAA!!! Now I get to go rake in the reviews again!!

(Course this is in Fanfiction.net, which isn't high-class, but anyway)

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-03-09 11:03pm

Alcohol and freewriting.

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