writer's block | writer's block
May.08.2013
First: The Booklover’s Bench gang has another contest for you. Prizes include a $25 gift card to either Amazon or B&N, and books from some of our members. There’s also a new giveaway on the Excerpts page. Please spread the word.
As I mentioned in my post last...
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Apr.17.2013
Lo and begorrah. I haven't posted to this consarn log in nary a fortnight!
Sorry, sometimes I enjoy talking like Pa Ingalls—the real one, not the dashing yet sappy actor who left us far too soon.
It's been ten days. Jeez.
Don’t think it hasn't been bothering me, though. For the past week-and-a-...
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Nov.12.2012
It is not easy to write it all out. To know where to begin. To find the right starting point.
Most days your head is like a big steel bucket full of jumbled up words. And when you
do choose one to begin with, you find that you cannot seem to find a match for it. The words
can come...
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Oct.10.2012
Conditions pertinent to writer’s block, which I prefer to call being stuck:
You are writing something, or many things, and are dissatisfied with what you’re doing.
You want to write and can’t get going.
You don’t want to write but think you should.
You...
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Sep.03.2012
I've set my pen to paper,
I've sat before the screen, watching the blinking cursor.
A reproach, for idleness.
My head is full of cold germs,
shoving all creative thought out of the way.
Days after day
the running nose and stuffy head-
keep those imaginative thoughts at bay.
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Aug.29.2012
My creative writing classmates all admire me for being able to go to classes and submit all my requirements on time despite my having one kid and being pregnant to boot the last two semesters. But now I can't write. Not much, anyway.
Oh, well, I'm blogging. That's different. Before there were blogs...
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Aug.26.2012
One of the key pieces of advice the creative writing faculty give to our entering graduate students is to make time for writing. Grad school requires so much of us all, there are many tasks, and they pull in different directions. One has to present a public face...
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Aug.21.2012
There's just nothing to write about? Really?
How about taking a look at today's newspaper. For example, in mine today, three stories virtually leaped off the page.
image via iwasbornveryyoung.com
A man running fur U.S. Senator makes a really lame comment about women and rape...
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Aug.02.2012
Whether you’re a professional writer, a student writing a paper, or an executive writing a business proposal, everyone at some point experiences writer’s block. Writer’s block is a condition in which a person is unable to create new work. It varies in severity from mildly annoying causing one...
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Jun.14.2012
I thought I’d moved beyond this. It's not like I'm inexperienced at the writing life. I've had my share of failures. I've spent years on novels that were never published and had essays turned down so many times I could have papered my entire house with the rejection letters. I’ve also had...
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