Jim McGrath
I don't believe in writer's block.
There are many days when I sit down to write and have nothing in my mind except for the title of a scene. What happens in the scene is a mystery to me and will forever remain so unless I start writing. It is only when I start to write that my mind can access the tacit knowledge that I hold in my subconscious. Here resides the half forgotten emotions, events, incidents, books, films, plays, conversations and dreams that are the raw materials of the writers craft.
Just staring at a blank page will not access this store of information you have to engage in the writing process. Give yourself permission to write a load of rubbish and then start writing. Pretty soon you'll find yourself in the zone and it is your characters and not you that are driving both the narrative and the conversations they are having.
Trust in the power of your subconscious and surrender to it.
Take care
Jim
There are many days when I sit down to write and have nothing in my mind except for the title of a scene. What happens in the scene is a mystery to me and will forever remain so unless I start writing. It is only when I start to write that my mind can access the tacit knowledge that I hold in my subconscious. Here resides the half forgotten emotions, events, incidents, books, films, plays, conversations and dreams that are the raw materials of the writers craft.
Just staring at a blank page will not access this store of information you have to engage in the writing process. Give yourself permission to write a load of rubbish and then start writing. Pretty soon you'll find yourself in the zone and it is your characters and not you that are driving both the narrative and the conversations they are having.
Trust in the power of your subconscious and surrender to it.
Take care
Jim
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