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 Posted: Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:58 pm
Since joining this guild, I decided it would be good if I...you know, actually WROTE SOMETHING. But I'm too busy sulking.
Here's the tragedy I sulk over:
A few months ago, I left my computer on overnight. It overheated, and it crashed. So I went without my computer for a few days. And when it was fixed? All my files were wiped clean. Every chapter, every short story, every single written work I'd done for pretty much my whole career as a writer, all of it gone. NOTHING could be saved.
*whimper*
Since then, I've barely written anything. I haven't even re-written my lost chapters because of how tedious it would have been! Again, it's been months. I dunno how many, but a LOT. I'm worried if I don't start writing again soon, I'll lose it forever.
About ten minutes ago, I opened up the little writing I have done, plus the chapters I had posted online and re-saved to my empty shell of a computer. I figured, hey, I could go back and actually work on stuff! I was wrong, because as soon as I looked at the few paragraphs before me, I flinched away. I absolutely could not bring myself to write one word.
This is where the healing starts.
I need help. I need help so horribly that it hurts. This is the worst Writers Block ever. D; How do I get back into it? Do I force myself into something and write until I finish a chapter or a short story? Do I take it a little at a time, a few sentences a day until I build up some writing strength? Or do I just continue to wait it out and see if one day I'll wake up with inspiration? Please, good people, give me SOMETHING?
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Posted: Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:07 pm
"You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down."
Ray Bradbury
He said this to some aspiring authors about writing a novel, and now I say it to you. If you really love writing, get to work on something. Once you throw yourself in and break past that barrier of mourning then you should have less difficulty getting back to your old literary self.
At least that is how it works for me, hope you don't give up. mrgreen
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Shirtless Conversationalist
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Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:58 am
Alright, thank you! heart I'll see if that works out. ...Now I just have to find something to jump into.
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Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 3:15 am
Start with a new character of new setting.
It really depends on what your strengths as a writer are. Creating a new character at random or starting with landscape helps.
I crashed big time two years ago when halfway through my novel i spiralled into the pit of tradgedy and crashed. badly. There was no re-building the old story, but i started some new writing, where even i didn't know who my character was, who they were running from, or why. And it had no storyline for about six months. Six whole months and i was writing about nothing in particular.
But my character developed, and one morning i woke up with an idea, and i wrote it down, and then a month after that, the idea seemed like junk, but i had another one. So i twisted my old idea into the new one and two years down the track my storyline is so complex it hurts my brain to think about the whole picture.
In the words of my little brother (7) it's a 'brain ache'.
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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 6:40 am
Maybe do some brainstorming. You can't write well unless you really want to write. So, that may mean that you need to put down that story for now (and maybe back it up on a CD just in case) and start brainstorming new ideas.
For me, every computer I ever write on, everything gets deleted. And so I despair, mourn, get a little emo-feeling, then grudgingly begin on the next project until I'm healed mentally enough to start on that old one that was deleted. xd I never learned to back up my files until now. Which you have reminded me to do. =D Just remember: don't write unless your head is buzzing and itching to write so badly it hurts! If you write with a mind that doesn't want to, YOU WILL PROBABLY HATE THE OUTCOME!!
At least, that's how it works for me. If you can find a way to work yourself up enough to get excited for writing, then go ahead and jump in to a piece. Also, don't write plotless. Brainstorm your full plot so you can add some muscle to the backbone of your story.
~ heart ~ Hope that helps!!
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