Merry !@#! Christmas: Writer's Block Edition | 36 comments (36 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Merry !@#! Christmas: Writer's Block Edition (none / 1)

Hmm, that's an excellent point - I have been very social lately... maybe I need to blame everyone for sucking the soul out of me and quite speaking to them for awhile!

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 25th, 2008 at 04:23:14 PM EST
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Re: Merry !@#! Christmas: Writer's Block Edition (4.00 / 3)

NO, Izzy, that's a cop-out. The only real antidote to writer's block, totally independent of anything else one does, is writing. period.

for example:

OK, sorry.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Dec 25th, 2008 at 04:42:58 PM EST
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Re: Merry !@#! Christmas: Writer's Block Edition (4.00 / 2)

I dunno, CH, this sounds suspiciously like one of them catch-22 thingies...

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 25th, 2008 at 04:51:44 PM EST
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Re: Merry !@#! Christmas: Writer's Block Edition (4.00 / 2)

Well then, i always found FEAR to be the great destroyer of writer's block.

Actually, just writing shit helps, because then you're angry enough at what you wrote to write something good.

Or you could go old school, and have your butler chain yourself to your desk.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Thu Dec 25th, 2008 at 06:01:02 PM EST
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