I'm not going to call it writer's block, because I don't feel blocked. I feel unmotivated.
Look, I even burned some precious writing time creating a new title banner for the blog. The font is Morgus the Magnificent, the quote "I'm nobody...who are you?" is from an Emily Dickinson poem.
You read that correctly: Emily Dickinson.
I'm just as scared as you are.
Now, how to fight the blahs?
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I use a writer's exercise my high school English teacher called 'the hiccuping butterfly.' Essentially you write, incoherently, for a set period of time. It is fun. Just imagine a butterfly with hiccups and go. I like your new headline though. it looks good.
Wow go Emily Dickinson. Who'd have thought? The new banner looks rad.
As for the blahs, I know what you mean. I don't get blocked, I get blahs, like you say. I usually go and dig into one of my inspirational treasure troves. (For me: Smithsonian and National Geographic magazines, the History Channel, or movies I love-- Amadeus, A Clockwork Orange, or something else... you know. Weird but familiar.) Sometimes it lights a fire.
And sometimes I just say screw it and make another martini.
Let us know what does it for you, I'm always very interested in how people work these things out.
Must be the weather...seems like a lot of people have wordstipation this week.
I gravitate heavily toward songs that tell stories (in most any musical genre), and I like to listen to some of the deeper or just flat-out weird ones for a kickstart.
I once won a book of her poems. Years later, my sister had to do a project on poetry. So you never know when these things will come in useful! ; )
Cool banner. That's a great poem by Dickinson. She's actually got some prettymorose stuff, which I'm sure you know. Probably fits right in with a horror writer.
Morgus the Magnificent - who comes up with these names. LOL!
I like your headline! Even if you do quote Emily Dickenson, whom I loathe.
Find a good book and read it instead of trying to write! It might just inspire you to some writing, and if not, you at least read a good book.
As a matter of fact, Ms. Dickinson is my favorite poet. The rhymes are often forced, true, but 90% of her writing is pure genius. 2 examples of why I love her...
"Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me..."
and
"I felt a funeral in my brain,
and mourners to and fro..."
and then the one that I THINK begins "Death is a dialogue between the body and the dust"
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