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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Robert Joseph Edmondson Two ways. First, whenever I have a moment of inspiration, or any idea, I write it in my note app on my phone or speak it into my phone immediately. Ju…moreTwo ways. First, whenever I have a moment of inspiration, or any idea, I write it in my note app on my phone or speak it into my phone immediately. Just a line that will be a bread crumb to bring me back. There have been so many times I thought I would remember but I just could not bring back that feeling. This helps fend off writers block, where I am trying too hard to force an idea.
The second thing I do is try to visualize my self digging for diamonds in the dark. Some days and weeks feel as though I am chipping away with no hope of finding a way forward and then I hit on something and it is so precious. If I can remember that, it helps me get through the daily grind of chipping, chipping, chipping in the dark.
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Robert Joseph Edmondson For me it helps give me purpose in life. It is an escape, like a reading a book is. It also helps me process thoughts I have only felt but now can fle…moreFor me it helps give me purpose in life. It is an escape, like a reading a book is. It also helps me process thoughts I have only felt but now can flesh out more through characters.(less)

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Captains and the Kings: The Story of an American Dynasty

by Taylor Caldwell

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Robert Edmondson said: " I love this book for so many reasons. The characters are all so strong and the settings are dark, gritty and brooding. The depth of details about the characters Joseph the protagonist runs into is used to flesh out Josephs' character and drive him in ...more "

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No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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