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... how do you all deal with it? (A serious question which led to the following)
Microscope and tweezers?
Axe and ice cream scoop?
Large amounts of alcohol?
Or maybe chocolate?
Obsess on it?
Ignore it?
Bang it (and your head) against the wall?
Write crap?
Read an old favorite?
Fuck it, I'm playing with the dogs.
I apparently chose option eight...
P.S. Hi, guys, did you miss me? Heck, do you remember me..?
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yaaaaaay! i remember terygon! http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif welcome back! and yeah... i usually end up choosing somthing like optino 8 too... tho, i dont have dogs, so... http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/wink.gif i usually just try not to think about it, end up obsessing about it, and then cry till it leaves me.
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Start again, go back to where i was before i was writing (or anything creative) and learn my lessons anew.
the mel
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the tolerant, and kindness from the unkind - yet, strange, i am ungrateful to these teachers. - Khalil Gibran
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I mix the 'large amounts of alcohol' and 'write crap' options. I have the idea that as long as I keep writing, then something halfway decent is bound to come out sometime. It's not always true, of course.
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Goof off for a while, then just sit down and write anything I can think of. If I'm stuck on one particular story, I work on something else. Most of the time it helps. Or I just go off and play video games.
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Well, I don't know so much for writing, but for painting, I go look at pictures or read comics... some sort of visual stimulant to put me "in the mood" to paint.
Maybe reading would help when it comes to writing?
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I have a page on beating writer's block at my website. Here's the URL:
http://www.denneybooks.com/block.htm
Hope it helps.
Hey, Ersby, what kind of writing are you interested in?
--jd
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You might want to check out a book called "Becoming a Writer" by Dorothea Brande. It a good book on the advice of becoming a better writer and there are some exercises in there that are interesting. My favorite is picking out a stranger on the street and imagine where that person is coming from, wehat that person desire is, and what kind of person they love, and so on and on.
But the most important thing to do is to just keep writing, every day or just forget the whole damned thing. Least that's what Henry Miller might say but do we really need to listen to him?
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I don't get it, I get writer's overload: where there's too much inside my skull bursting to get out all at once. Of course I don't write regularly at all...
Hi Terygon!
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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by JimDenney:
Hey, Ersby, what kind of writing are you interested in?
--jd<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Fiction - my novel's out next year (maybe we could swap http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/biggrin.gif). And I do a bit of cartooning. I have a web site at www.ersby.fsnet.co.uk
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Bitch about it, complain about it, try to force it and when all else has failed, I relax, go about living my life, resigned I'll never write again, only to find inspiration in the oddest of places..
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Ersby--
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Fiction - my novel's out next year (maybe we could swap ). And I do a bit of cartooning. I have a web site at www.ersby.fsnet.co.uk <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Fiction! Excellent. All my published stuff so far is nonfiction, but I just signed a contract to do some children's books (now writing FURIOUSLY to meet the insane deadlines they gave me!).
Just got a rejection letter yesterday on an adult novel I had submitted to a NYC house. They said, "We think your writing is clean and polished, however the characters and situations within your story were familiar and well-used in the genre."
And you know what? They're right. I submitted the book three, four months ago, and soon afterwards, I got some great ideas for restructuring and reshaping it. When I get time, I want to overhaul it, rework the characterisation, retitle it, and send it out again.
The way I see it, rejection is feedback--especially when it's a personal letter (like this one) and not a form letter. And when the feedback resonates with your own misgivings about your work, it gives you something to work with.
I visited your site, and it's a lot of fun. "Gal in Pants" is hilarious stuff--good show! I used to do cartooning, but haven't in years--mine was more in the vein of the old EC Comics sci-fi/adventure stuff. I miss it, but there's just no time for pen and ink anymore--too busy at the keyboard, scrambling to meet deadlines. :0(
Trade? Sure! I'd love to see your work. Keep me in mind when your book comes out!
--jd
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Ersby--
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Fiction - my novel's out next year (maybe we could swap ). And I do a bit of cartooning. I have a web site at www.ersby.fsnet.co.uk <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Fiction! Excellent. All my published stuff so far is nonfiction, but I just signed a contract to do some children's books (now writing FURIOUSLY to meet the insane deadlines they gave me!).
Just got a rejection letter yesterday on an adult novel I had submitted to a NYC house. They said, "We think your writing is clean and polished, however the characters and situations within your story were familiar and well-used in the genre."
And you know what? They're right. I submitted the book three, four months ago, and soon afterwards, I got some great ideas for restructuring and reshaping it. When I get time, I want to overhaul it, rework the characterisation, retitle it, and send it out again.
The way I see it, rejection is feedback--especially when it's a personal letter (like this one) and not a form letter. And when the feedback resonates with your own misgivings about your work, it gives you something to work with.
I visited your site, and it's a lot of fun. "Gal in Pants" is hilarious stuff--good show! I used to do cartooning, but haven't in years--mine was more in the vein of the old EC Comics sci-fi/adventure stuff. I miss it, but there's just no time for pen and ink anymore--too busy at the keyboard, scrambling to meet deadlines. :0(
Trade? Sure! I'd love to see your work. Keep me in mind when your book comes out!
--jd
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Author of ANSWERS TO SATISFY THE SOUL
Website at Denneybooks.com
Moderator of the ANSWERS TO SATISFY THE SOUL Forum
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Sorry about multiple posts. Server problem.
[This message has been edited by JimDenney (edited November 06, 2001).]
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