Writers' Block

[CynicalGuitarist]

Does anybody else have writers block? I do. It makes me wanna give self-acupuncture with meat thermometers and my cutco knives. It's gotten so bad, I've went on temporary hiatus from guitar and it hasn't really done me any good because I have no good ideas. Everything my hollow brain has ever concocted has been another hindenburg. It's just another brick in the wall.

 

not only that, but I have a mid-term for Vietnamese tomorrow and I absolutely bomb at tests, no matter how hard I study.

 

Somebody kill me now, please.

 

Either that, or give me a funny cigarette. They used to help tremendously in situations like this.

[Haven]

One thing you could try is doing a free write. Basically, just sit down and start writing down anything that comes into your mind, and keep writing. The most important thing is to not look back at what you've written, and to not stop writing. You could also pick a topic to focus your writing on -- just free write about the topic for a certain period of time. Even if this doesn't help you with your writer's block immediately, if you do it every day, it'll improve your writing a lot.

[CynicalGuitarist]

One thing you could try is doing a free write. Basically, just sit down and start writing down anything that comes into your mind, and keep writing. The most important thing is to not look back at what you've written, and to not stop writing. You could also pick a topic to focus your writing on -- just free write about the topic for a certain period of time. Even if this doesn't help you with your writer's block immediately, if you do it every day, it'll improve your writing a lot.

 

yeah, but this doesn't help for writing songs. I tried writing lyrics a few years back and gave up because I realized I suck and I can't do it.

[Haven]

yeah, but this doesn't help for writing songs. I tried writing lyrics a few years back and gave up because I realized I suck and I can't do it.

Well, like I said, it still helps with writing in general. Have you tried, like, just starting to play chords and then singing whatever comes out? You feel kind of stupid doing it, but it does help sometimes. Or you could listen to music from another song and sing your own words to it.. to try to get over your writer's block.