Writer's Block

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 11:11pm

I'm writing a couple of short plays and need to have them in Friday; one problem. Major writer's block...

Any suggestions to get myself writing again.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 11:15pm

Take one word and try to write a play around it. I had to do that for a school assignment once and the word was "destiny".

Go to Blockbuster and rent a movie you've never heard of before.

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 11:21pm

To me having a deadline is a major solution to battle writer's block, but apparently that's not yours, lol. I'll suggest thinking about your favorite character from a play/show/novel and place him/her in any situation, see if anything comes out of it. Another thing I find inspiring is going through the newspaper or reading history books about specific minorities/cultures, you'll find out things you never learned in your history class and that sometimes provides a great setting for new stories.

[Over_the_Moon]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 11:27pm

Make writer's block a character in a story...

I did that with a poem once and it really helped. As much as that doesn't make sense... try it.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 11:31pm

Going off of what ray said, I used this in another school assignment: Take a story/book/play that you really didn't like and change it. My assignment was to write about the characters 5 years after the ending of Much Ado About Nothing. I intensely disliked the way it turned out, so I took the pre-existing characters and created a play where they did what I wanted them to do.

Updated On: 11/8/05 at 11:31 PM

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 11/8/05 at 11:36pm

On that same air, you can think of a poem/play/short story (any work of fiction) and write about the author's situation while writing this work, anything that led him/her to make the choices in the story, or how the story affected the author's life. It worked for me when I was trying to come up with a concept to turn House of Bernarda Alba into a musical...about a week later I found out Graciela Daniele and LaChiusa were going to get their own version of the show Off-Broadway

[Plum]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 8:44am

Go stream-of-consciousness. Don't worry about what you're writing; just put down anything you think of. It's kind of like greasing the gears of a machine- it'll help you get the words flowing again so you can write what you need to.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 11/9/05 at 9:42am

Writer's block usually means that you're not writing what you are supposed to be. Instead of going after a product, go after the process of writing what you are thinking about. It more often than not will give you a better product in the end.

The trick with writer's block:

KEEP WRITING!