Writer's Block

[niektete.livejournal.com]

Dear chaps and chapettes, I need a few good tips, if you can spare me some.

I am working on a Jooster fic, which I have rather high hopes for. Longish, about four chapters/10,000 words I estimate (unless the plot bunny mutates horribly). I have the whole story worked out in my head, I wrote the first chapter with great enthusiasm and then - writer's block. I can't seem to write a single sentence without grimacing at it afterwards.

So, in short - what do people do when they have writer's/artist's block? How do you get your creative juices flowing again, so to speak? I'm asking since even my usual routine of tea, books and biscuits didn't work, and I really, really want to finish this fic :)

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

Oh man, it's totally simple to overcome writer's block. Listen! Here's all you gotta do:

1. Drink. Or do some other bad thing that you like doing. Smoke. Drop acid. Whatever. Just do something to lower your inhibitions just a little. Because that's what writer's block is: inhibition that is keeping you from writing out of FEAR that it will not be any good. Which is silly! You can always rewrite if it's not any good.

2. Skip the next linear scene and go to the next. You said you had the whole story plotted before you began. So take back your control. Write another part of it and come back to the problem part later.

3. Drink some more. That's pretty much it, actually.

[toodlepipsigner.livejournal.com]

Writing while on acid sounds quite dangerous. Before you know it Bertie has morphed into a four headed monster and Jeeves is a robot made of a thousand snakes that change color and wear purple polkadotted tutus.

At least those are the kinds of experiences I had... sans Jeeves and Bertie.

[triedunture.livejournal.com]

It sounds like a rollicking good time though!

[toodlepipsigner.livejournal.com]

Eh drugs nowadays are shit. When I was growing up it was only the 90's but the acid wasn't as horrible as it is now. You could still get it without Windex in it back then... that and ecstasy at its summit...happy days...

Er, right, what's this community about? =\

[georgeodowd.livejournal.com]

I have found this to be dreadfully true... I hardly ever drink except in social situations, but the one time I tried to write after a few beers, it was so blastedly easy! Drat!