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writers block/inhibtions/ creative filter

 
 
BobGod
14:57 / 04.11.01
I am having this rather annoying problem.
Whenever I start writing, be it fiction, filmscripts or discuusionboard posts, I get horribly held up. Usually by, what i think, people expect from meor by fear of writing something stupid/unrelevant, my moods and lots of other thing, mostly unconscius, but noticable.
I feel like there is a whole tank of creativity and good ideas stuck somewhere in my brain, but it cant get outm because it gets filtered thorugh and deformed by my how-to-call-it, possibly insecurities.

I know that tank is there, because I have bright moments, when i am actually able to acces it, like f.e. when I worked myself into a frenzy, on the comedown/calmdown of a mushroom trick, when I use devices to trick myself or when i write for people I feel intelectually superior to anyway.
Then I write stuff, where I know in that same moment I do it, "yes, this is good, oh yes"

I reguralrly write a diary, a weblog and a piece of webfiction and they are all written completly different! As in style, depth, originality, anything. But its beyond my control. And it really really annoys me. Really.
I think the way to go around it, is to tap into your creative pool and letting it flow out, using you conscious mind only to steer it into the direction you want, but how do I stop it from stopping me? Anyone know a way?
 
 
BobGod
16:24 / 07.11.01
noone?
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
17:18 / 07.11.01
Never sit down in front of a blank piece of paper with nothing to write.

Try to leave yourself something to write the next morning which you know you can do fairly simply.

Never be afraid to start at page one again.

Trust the talent. No one knows how it works.

Brainstorming:

Take a situation. Turn it upside down. (eg off the top of my head: Family problems, divorce, unhappy kids...twist: the family are spacefarers, separated by lightspeed relativity effects. Sometimes the kids are older than the parents.)

Use Cobralingus (Jeff Noon's technique, outlined here by me and in his book of the same name and elsewhere, probably) as a jump off point.

Write down a hundred lines of pure garbage, random words off the top of your head. Then go back through it and make it mean something...

It goes on...

For screenplays, read 'Story' by Robert McKee and 'Which Lie did I tell?' by William Goldman.

And contribute to my damn collaborative threads - steal the ideas, use it as a springboard, or just hone your talents by figuring out where it goes wrong (they always do).
 
 
BobGod
23:11 / 07.11.01
cheers...
 
 
the Fool
03:21 / 08.11.01
quote:Originally posted by Nick:
Use Cobralingus (Jeff Noon's technique, outlined here by me and in his book of the same name and elsewhere, probably) as a jump off point.

Write down a hundred lines of pure garbage, random words off the top of your head. Then go back through it and make it mean something....


That sounds like fun. I'm gunna give that one a go meself.

My personal technique is to first imagine a scene, actually see it in your head. Then interact with it as you would the real world.

Start describing the scene your in. Then what you're doing, then why you are doing it.

or from a third person perspective.

See the character in the scene. Start describing hir actions.

Visualise...
 
 
We're The Great Old Ones Now
05:22 / 08.11.01
I should point out here that the 'cobralingus' option and the 'hundred lines of garbage' option are separate. I didn't structure the post very well.

Although they are similar, and the second is really a less codified way of doing the same thing...

And where's your contribution to the 'heroic' thread, eh? Eh? Of course it's pointless nonsense...but...[snivvle]...
 
 
BobGod
10:38 / 08.11.01
there ye go...
 
  
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