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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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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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