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Dec.12.2011
A friend wrote to me this week with an enormous question. Everything she's been working on and for hit an obstacle of enormous proportions. Violence in Egypt has derailed her project, a play about redemption and understanding. The concept, the substance, and the form came to her like a apparition,...
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Jan.24.2011
I decided to do a self-interview this morning to explore my writing block. I didn't have any questions in mind other than "Why am I having such a hard time writing fiction?" and let the conversation evolve from there. I discovered that I'm still resentful over a sci-fi story I wrote and...
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Jan.19.2011
I was just reading an article and the author said she doesn't believe in writing blocks. I would love not to believe in them either but I've been blocked for about a year now.
I know I can write daily, I did it for 500 consecutive days; so why am I paralyzed? I think it's interesting that I also...
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Apr.08.2010
You’re halfway through writing your novel and--bang! You’re stuck. Your inspiration has deserted you. You find yourself staring at a blank page for minutes, hours, days, possibly even weeks and months. So what causes it? Many different theories have been put forward, everything from lack of...
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Apr.03.2009
A page from my calendar:
There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time. This expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost. -...
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Oct.29.2008
Marriage of Intuition and Creativity: Removing Writer's Block, an excerpt from That Which Awakens Me by Ananda Leeke
Copyright 2008 by Madelyn C. Leeke.
This month I have been actively engaged in removing the creative blocks that I have allowed to dominate my memoir writing journey. I have...
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