This month my goal was to write 100 pieces for The Kevin Broccoli blog, and a piece a day for the This Can't Be Broccoli blog.
Every writing book tells you that you have to write constantly, and not worry about whether what you're writing is worthwhile or not. With that in mind, you'd think that writing would be easy.
Little did I know that even when given permission to suck, I still have trouble coming up with stuff every once in awhile. And by "every once in awhile" I mean "every time I try to write."
So to help those of you who might be going through this as well, here are my ways of solving writer's block.
Flickr--Go through "the last 7 days." There's usually at least one image in there that's inspiring, and if all else fails, try to play the Nine Photos game and connect the images. If that doesn't work, just try describing an image and see where it takes you.
Fox News--There's always at least thing guaranteed to infuriate you. Don't go to CNN. All you're going to find there is news you agree with, and what's the use of that?
Friends' Statuses--"Just found an peanut in my coffin." Tell me that's not a title.
Twisted Sister--I find that even when I'm absolutely brain dead, if I use a familiar image, I can jolt myself into at least mild creativity. So I go on Wikipedia and start looking up fairy tales, folk tales, and any other familiar story I can find--then I f**k with it. Not always genius, but it does get the juices going.
If all that fails, read. I once got seventeen ideas for two pages of one book.
If you can't be brilliant, which I'm not, you can at least surround yourself with brilliance.
Something's bound to get through.
Every writing book tells you that you have to write constantly, and not worry about whether what you're writing is worthwhile or not. With that in mind, you'd think that writing would be easy.
Little did I know that even when given permission to suck, I still have trouble coming up with stuff every once in awhile. And by "every once in awhile" I mean "every time I try to write."
So to help those of you who might be going through this as well, here are my ways of solving writer's block.
Flickr--Go through "the last 7 days." There's usually at least one image in there that's inspiring, and if all else fails, try to play the Nine Photos game and connect the images. If that doesn't work, just try describing an image and see where it takes you.
Fox News--There's always at least thing guaranteed to infuriate you. Don't go to CNN. All you're going to find there is news you agree with, and what's the use of that?
Friends' Statuses--"Just found an peanut in my coffin." Tell me that's not a title.
Twisted Sister--I find that even when I'm absolutely brain dead, if I use a familiar image, I can jolt myself into at least mild creativity. So I go on Wikipedia and start looking up fairy tales, folk tales, and any other familiar story I can find--then I f**k with it. Not always genius, but it does get the juices going.
If all that fails, read. I once got seventeen ideas for two pages of one book.
If you can't be brilliant, which I'm not, you can at least surround yourself with brilliance.
Something's bound to get through.
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