Feb 19 2010
Writer’s Block
My room mate was watching “Wonder Boys” yesterday and at some point in there the main character Grady equated writing a story to giving birth. Some one was asking him what his book was about and he said he didn’t know. They chastised him for not knowing and he asked them what their child was going to be, and they said that they didn’t care as long as it looked like it’s mother. So, that illustrated the point. I find myself wishing at this point that there were prenatal vitamins for my story, given I’m stuck.
I’ve been looking for tips on ways to become unstuck given my normal things aren’t working at this point; and I ran across this site: Ten Tips for Overcoming Writer’s Block and have been reading through those a few of them aren’t as feasible for me.
For example, the first tip suggests walking away from the keyboard. I’ve got a billion other things I need to do which involve the computer so instead of walking away I just switch tactics and work on those other things, catching up on blogs, reading things that are in my feed reader and the last and most useless one playing games on Facebook. However this morning I also have things to do which do not involve the computer, which is number 2 on the list. I have laundry to sort out, and washed dishes to put away. Later on today I have a massage booked that my Mum bought for me, so if nothing else that should give me a ton of time to clear my head and just be for a while and hopefully enable me to come back refreshed.
