The Writer's Block

A blog full of ideas for overcoming writer's block. Alternately, a place for me to let it all hang out, so I can overcome my own writer's block.

2007/6/15

A License to Play Around

I suppose I should make at least one post on writer’s block, just so I can say that the title for the blog is appropriate, huh? Getting over writer’s block is all about letting the creative energies flow unabated. And writers block is caused, in my opinion, when we let other things dam up our creativity. I get my best inspirations and creative ideas from anomalies that occur during my day, things that stick out among the mundane rituals and cause my mind to switch to a chain of thoughts that become more and more creative, as I allow the anomaly to serve as permission to my conscious mind to think in the abstract.

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2007/6/11

We Shall Overcome

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@ 03:00 PM (17 months, 20 days ago)

I am sitting here, chewing my nails, trying to think of what to type for my first blog entry.  The damn, black, vertical line keeps blinking at me, and every two words I hit the backspace key.  I haven't a clue what I want to write, except that I know I want to help and be helped.  I've got great ideas in the back of my head, great lines and phrases, and I want to put them together and make something great out of it, but, I keep getting writer's block. 

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