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Beau L'Amour

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BEAU L’AMOUR is the son of novelist Louis L'Amour. Beau grew up among the writers, actors, beatniks, Apache Indians, FBI agents, and members of the Hollywood Ten who were the denizens of his West Hollywood neighborhood and his parents’ friends. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts. Over the years, L’Amour has written and produced a series of more than sixty audio dramas and worked in the radio and magazine business, then as a screenwriter and television producer. In the world of book publishing, he has been an art director, literary editor, and ghost writer. ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Beau L'Amour The first factor is to open the doors to your unconscious. To do this you have to write as consistently and constantly as possible. It is all about pr…moreThe first factor is to open the doors to your unconscious. To do this you have to write as consistently and constantly as possible. It is all about practice even though much of the time it doesn't feel like you are practicing anything. Every time you set down creative ideas you are practicing. Every time the gatekeeper of your unconscious lets down his guard a little more ... until you slack off. Then you have to start exercising that muscle again.

It's a big deal for me because I tend to write, then get involved in huge technical projects (like Audio Productions, Graphic Novels, or just the details of book publishing) based on what I write. Thus I get out of practice and have to fight my way back to the point where I can do my real job. It's miserable but I know I can do it. That leads to the second factor of dealing with Writer's Block ...

Writer's Block is often more about a lack of confidence than a lack of ideas. To overcome it you have to be willing to be bad. Be BAD. Then fix it. Once you get an idea on paper it has the opportunity to tell you what it wants to become. You can have a dialog with it. It can evolve. You may have to give it time once a rough draft or outline or treatment has been written but it is MUCH easier for you to react to once it is set down. If you listen closely it WILL tell you what it wants to be. Now sometimes it wants to be put in the garbage, but most of the time, if you pay attention to it, work on it occasionally, it will tell you how best to allow it to flourish. You just have to listen and you can't do that until you execute a first draft.

If you can't figure how to get an idea to come together just noodle with it. Save your drafts in case you don't realize you had a good idea until later. many times a polished and sophisticated product has emerged from under my fingers without my knowing what I'm doing. I'm just getting in there and seeing what happens.

Be aware that your unconscious plays dirty tricks. You'll get distractingly good ideas on one project while you are hard at work on another. Take a moment and jot down a few notes then get back to the main project. You'll sometimes discover a burst of creativity when you KNOW you have to stop writing, like an hour before you have to head out to dinner. The gatekeeper to the unconscious doesn't like to open the gates too long so he's more willing to open then when he knows they'll soon have to close. The more you practice turning on your creator, opening those gates, the longer they will stay open and the easier they will stay open. Write every day. Face an empty page every day. No TV, radio, Facebook, email. Maybe you don't even make yourself write at first. Just sit there. Soon you'll think "I might as well write something, just to entertain myself." That's the key.

Read Steven Pressfield's The War Of Art ... that is the best book on all the stuff that keeps you from writing before writer's block really becomes an issue.(less)

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	Son of a Wanted Man by Louis L'Amour, Beau L'Amour (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,874 ratings — published 1984 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rustlers of West Fork by Tex Burns, Louis L'Amour, Beau L'Amour (Goodreads Author) 3.91 avg rating — 1,732 ratings — published 1951 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond the Great Snow Mountains by Louis L'Amour, Beau L'Amour (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 3.91 avg rating — 1,043 ratings — published 1999 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Traveller Returns by Louis L'Amour, Beau L'Amour (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 560 ratings — published 2018 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Law of the Desert Born by Beau L'Amour (Goodreads Author), Louis L'Amour, Kathy Nolan 3.63 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 2013 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Louis L'Amour's Lost Treasures: Volume 1: Mysterious Stories, Lost Notes, and Unfinished Manuscripts from One of the World's Most Popular Novelists by Louis L'Amour, Beau L'Amour (Goodreads Author) 4.08 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2017 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Diamond of Jeru by Louis L'Amour, Beau L'Amour (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Joe Morton (Narrator) 3.60 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skyring Water: A Novel by Beau L'Amour (Goodreads Author), Louis L'Amour 3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	FCBD 2013 Kellerman / L'Amour (Free Comic Book Day) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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