Writer's Block
Writer's Block
#0Writer's Block
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.
#1re: Writer's Block
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".
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Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Wanting life but never knowing how
#2re: Writer's Block
Posted: 11/8/05 at 11:21pmTo 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.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Over_the_Moon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#3re: Writer's Block
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.
"what have we learned? Don't smoke... don't do drugs and don't sing 'Defying Gravity'." -CATSNYRevival
#4re: Writer's Block
Posted: 11/8/05 at 11:31pmGoing 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.
Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how
Updated On: 11/8/05 at 11:31 PM
Wanting life but never knowing how
#5re: Writer's Block
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 
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#6re: Writer's Block
Posted: 11/9/05 at 8:44amGo 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
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#7re: Writer's Block
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!
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