Writer’s Block

 

Writer’s block is a menace. The writer’s version of being unable to get it up. It has plagued writers and author since the dawn of writing – probably – and well continue to plague us until we rage quit and go make another coffee and pretend to write for the rest of the night but really are just watching youtube videos.

Or is that just me?

Yeah, that might just be me.

But Writer’s Block is a very real and very annoying thing.

When I first started Bad Reception, I had muse for weeks. I would sit and type till 4am and sometimes longer and the entire thing was completed without incident. Book two was the same. The muse was forgiving and in copious amounts, and things got done!

Then book three came along.  I didn’t know how to start it so I did something I had never done before. I wrote down a list of all the things I needed to do, all the things I needed to acheive, and a large summary of how I would acheive these things in each chapter. For me, plotting out takes a long of the fun of writing away. After all, you’ve already written it down, why write it again in a long winded way in a chapter? (My brain is stubborn and wierd and the concept of organisation puts it to sleep. On that note; you should see my work space!)

So, after all the planning and organisation was done. I set down to write; pleased with my – for once – complete plan of action.

I readied my open office document. I cracked my knuckles. I plonked on some inspirational – if piratey – music. I put the synopsis/summary to my right and looked over what I needed to do…

And did not type up a word for two weeks.

Writing is a fickle hobby/career and I can understand why George R.R. Martin has done everything but get another book out. Sometimes the brain doesn’t want to write. Sometimes the brain wants to rewatch an entire four series of Teen Wolf or draw your characters if they were born in the opposite sex or cement mixers. Sometimes the thought of writing makes a write cry their way into the kitchen and eat an entire loaf of bread (I still need to do that one).

But the trick is not to  push yourself. Writing isn’t like any other job with set patterns and goals, writing at it’s best, needs to be inspired. I don’t write without inspiration, in the same way I wouldn’t draw without a mechanical pencil. You work around your own skills and abilities and if something doesn’t work, you have to let it lay until you can work around it.

 

Unless you have a deadline. Then you’re pretty much scuppered. ^^”

Me right now? I’m watching Teen Wolf and drawing because chapter three is being difficult. If you get bored and find the urge to see what I’m drawing, find me on Deviantart at this link

Good luck beating the block!