Sebastian Proba's Blog: the race

cure for being stuck

Every author knows this feeling: you're stuck, unsure where to go next. While writing "Mirrors," I experienced this several times. There are many ways to break through creative blocks, but what if your problem is specifically an inability to visualize a place in detail?

I reached a point in my story where I felt like the "imagination score" in my brain had suddenly dropped. So I described to DALL-E the scene I needed, the atmosphere I wanted to create, and the emotions it should evoke. After a few attempts, I received this image and wrote my description based on it.

Someone on Facebook commented that absinthe used to help writers in the past, so I shouldn't worry about supporting my imagination with something considerably less psychoactive. ;)

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