3 more way to get out of writers blocks
3 more way to get out of writers blocks
Face the facts and pinpoint what might be hindering you:
I) Lack of knowledge and/or experience in relation to certain topics and issues needed to get more meat out of your brainstorming process.
Possible solutions:
1) Don't think that you have to deliver a message like a great philosopher, or like whoever wrote the Red Sea Crossing story.
2) "Write what you know" in your own voice and in your own perspective. If you're as advanced with the muses as Moses, even better.
3) KISS and Keep it short. Keep it simple and focus on short films and short shorts so that you can practice and experience what it's like to use different story elements, mechanisms, and tools, and practice and experience what it's like to start and finish projects.
II) Major confusion or you are unclear about characters, perspective/point of view, setting, and/or genre.
Possible solutions:
* Rather than allowing the organic process of writing go on and on and on, and rather than allowing your characters and worlds to evolve over and over and over again - tell yourself that it's time to start and finish "the story" and "the project". Stick to your characters, stick your setting, and stick to your genre, etc. Don't change it. (This is an exercise for getting out of writers block.) Remember nothing is written in stone, but when you're stuck with writers block, it might be time to write things in stone for now.
III) You might be too wrapped up in trying to write stories the way you "think" good writers might write; or you might choose topics, motifs, and imagery that you "think" good writers might choose.
Possible solutions:
* Don't try to write like your heroes. Don't try to be someone else when you're writing. The question is, what kinds of stories do you want to tell, and how do you want to present and deliver them?
