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Robin
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Dec 29, 2013 03:36PM
Have you ever just felt completely out of ideas? That's how I feel right now. My brain is just zapped of ideas. Completely. I try writing, and I end up hitting backspace over and over again. I just....UGH. I feel like I've lost my passion for writing. :( I'm trying to take a break right now. But....ACK!
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RobinRaven wrote: "Have you ever just felt completely out of ideas? That's how I feel right now. My brain is just zapped of ideas. Completely. I try writing, and I end up hitting backspace over and over again. I just..."HOw many books have you written?
Indigo.plume wrote: "RobinRaven wrote: "Have you ever just felt completely out of ideas? That's how I feel right now. My brain is just zapped of ideas. Completely. I try writing, and I end up hitting backspace over and..."None. I mean I'm unpublished. I just enjoy writing.
Sometimes ideas come to you in the form of silly observations from your daily life. You probably have a ton of ideas everyday, but if you don't keep a writer's journal you may never remember them all. I have a back log of ideas in my little journals, and it would probably take several lifetimes for me to develop them all into stories. Can you see yourself keeping a journal?
Sometimes it helps to do some "what if..." exercises and free-write. When I got stuck while writing Maybe Baby, I asked myself questions like "What if Laney couldn't say no to him...?" and then let myself think about the consequences...and then I wrote for 30 minutes without stopping. And it started leading to other ideas.
Maybe try joining a group that motivates writing. I remember there was a group on livejournal a few years back just for the NaNo challenge. There were also groups like one called '10 minutes ' where the mod posted a word or sentence and you would write about that for 10 minutes a day. I'll bet there's something like that here.
Music!!! Go listen to some old school music, when men made promises to women and had no problem crying for a woman. Go back to when music was poetey for love.
