Justin Christopher
I run, I write, I do dishes, I play the guitar. Writer's block is little more than flat batteries. Don't worry, an idea will come to you, but once it does - GRAB IT.
I once heard a poet say his best poems fizzed past on a runaway train and if he didn’t grab them with both hands, at that very second, they would be gone forever, never to return.
I always loved the way John Cleese and Michael Palin used to write. They knew ideas don’t arrive fully formed. It takes work to find them. The stars of Monty Python would sit in a cabin in the woods, sometimes for hours, before the bare-boned idea for a sketch popped out. They’d worked out the magic ingredient. Riff and talk and riff and talk and risk.
Sometimes you’re lucky. Sometimes, for whatever reason, ideas just arrive.
Be patient, but most importantly- HAVE FUN.
I once heard a poet say his best poems fizzed past on a runaway train and if he didn’t grab them with both hands, at that very second, they would be gone forever, never to return.
I always loved the way John Cleese and Michael Palin used to write. They knew ideas don’t arrive fully formed. It takes work to find them. The stars of Monty Python would sit in a cabin in the woods, sometimes for hours, before the bare-boned idea for a sketch popped out. They’d worked out the magic ingredient. Riff and talk and riff and talk and risk.
Sometimes you’re lucky. Sometimes, for whatever reason, ideas just arrive.
Be patient, but most importantly- HAVE FUN.
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