What Do You Do When You Have Writer's Block?

[Emma, la Magnifica!]

Since many of us are writers, we all probably have experienced the same terribleness of WRITER'S BLOCK (dramatic chord).

What do you do to get rid of it?

[Tara ♪]

Well... It sort of depends. For me, it's almost like there are multiple kinds of writer's block, and there are all sorts of different brainstorming techniques that help me with each type.

[Emma, la Magnifica!]

I found this online...

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/54725779...

It's somewhat helpful.

I once had this terrible case of writers block where my muse left me completely, and the way I got it back was by writing all my problems on a piece of paper and then burning it. And then I could write again. Call me crazy, but it truly worked.

[Tara ♪]

Wow. :) Maybe I'll try that if I ever lose my muse. :)

[Emma, la Magnifica!]

♪ Tara ♪ wrote: "Wow. :) Maybe I'll try that if I ever lose my muse. :)"

Haha, it really worked!! My friend suggested it - I don't know if she actually ever did it, but I did!

[Altan]

I take a walk and wonder about life. ^_^

[Altan]

Haha, that is a good way to cure it I suppose!

[Emma, la Magnifica!]

But that's hard when you're not legal to drink. :P

[Altan]

Do I hear a complaint in that Emma? ^_^

[Emma, la Magnifica!]

Hahahhaahhahaha hahaha ha.

[Emma, la Magnifica!]

I suppose the equivalent is staying up really late and writing something you think is AMAZING and then waking up the next morning and wondering what the hell you were thinking.

[Emma, la Magnifica!]

Unforunately yes - as you may or may not know, everyone in this group except for me and Hestia have somehow discovered the magical art of Time Travel and were called to follow every of Lorenzo's whim (or maybe his son's? because you know how he was, killing Poliziano and Pico della Mirandola) - but I'm just waiting, listening to my AP Euro teacher pronounce all of their names wrong.

You're working on an opera?! that's so cool! I translated Lorenzo da Ponte/Martìn y Soler's Una Cosa Rara last year and haven't looked at it since :P
While I am generally against English operas, I don't see the sense in an opera about Nixon in Italian ... it might as well be in, say, Proto-Indo European.

[Tara ♪]

Oh my... Against English operas... Perhaps I shouldn't mention that this summer I played Buttercup in HMS Pinafore

[Emma, la Magnifica!]

I meant like ... traditional operas- not that that's not "traditional" but I don't know how to explain it I get in this fight a lot grrrr.

I don't see the point in having NEW operas written.
I don't see the point in translating OLD operas into ENGLISH or Abridging them!
I appreciate English operas/operettas that were written to be purposefully in English, like Candide or Porgy and Bess or any of those.

[Emma, la Magnifica!]

But anyway Tara I might play in an opera this January!!!