Poll #23: Writers' Block

[Andy]

Time for a new poll!
Do you suffer from writers block?
:writersblock:

[Rafael Domination]

I have no idea what's going on with me. I used to write like crazy, but now, I'm encountering a massive writer's block that's been plaguing me for months, and if I don't get over it soon, I might as well jump off the next cliff I see.

*Maybe if I survive that AND avoid any more brain damage than I have right now, I'll be inspired to write some more.*

[Quietus]

I'm with Raf. I've been in a writing rut for what seems ever. I'll have random days of inspiration and be able to get a few or more pages written, but that's it for like a week.

[Rafael Domination]

I think in my case its the RPG deficiency! :P

Naw...I'll figure something out.

[Imelda]

Two years, guys.

Never have a mental breakdown. It sucks. If you do make sure you have some glue handy to rebuild yourself fast.

[jordanisonfire]

I've just experienced the first break in my writers' block when I wrote the first part of Snitch. But now the dreaded virus is plaguing me again... :(

[Carraka]

Frequently.

Since I'm mostly editing the first story and outlining the second, I can't say I have Writer's Block at this moment.

But when it comes, I have my little list of strategies. Word warring, depriving myself of the Internet, bribing myself with cookies, telling everyone to force me to finish something by a certain date, skipping the difficult parts ... or just telling myself: Writer's Block is unacceptable. If you can't write, go be a doctor, lawyer, or accountant.

Or I think positively! There's my NaNoWriMo winner's certificate posted on the ceiling, and I really did print out that thing Andrew said to me once ...

[Zombified]

At the moment I am in the biggest writers block I have ever been in.

I have spent so much time away from it that I don't know if I will be the same.

I've been working on my music so much that I have pushed writing out of my mind!
Scary!

Hopefully, I can return with a bang!

[jordanisonfire]

Does the same thing happen with artists? I mean, in both ideas and in the willingness to paint, draw, sculpt etc.

[Zombified]

As an amateur musician, I can say that writers block comes in all shapes and forms.

There are days where I will be on the couch and all of a sudden a melody and chorus just pops into my head.
I'll get my guitar out and arrange a song around an idea and if I can't make it work I put it away and come back to it later.

Writers block with music has only happened to me once. All that happened was I found little pleasure in playing and singing, so I just stopped for a week or two.

I guess with writing stories and such it is a much more volatile impact, perhaps because one takes longer than the other (sometimes!).

I used to pen these little cartoons in school about my teachers and stuff and for three weeks straight the ideas just flooded me! I had so many comic strips that I had to give them to friends so I could make room in my backpack.
After that I was never able to match that productivity with cartooning.

The best thing you can do really is remember," Okay, I'm good at this. Its what I love, and I know I can make something happen!"

If you let your confidence fall, you're gonna have a hard time coming back to what you love.

[Shaun]

There's no such thing as writer's block. That's simply a word invented by people as an excuse for not writing.

[Imelda]

'No such think'? Right.

[Rafael Domination]

What's that, like the 20th time she attacked you this month? :P

[Shaun]

Yeah...I'm feeling rather hated as of late.

[Imelda]

Hated. Pffffffft. Not likely. :p

Anyway, I loved on him enough last week to earn about 20 years' worth of spelling mistake nit-picks. :D

[Rafael Domination]

You two are so cute :D

[Nyx]

I'm with Raf. I've been in a writing rut for what seems ever. I'll have random days of inspiration and be able to get a few or more pages written, but that's it for like a week.

Yep I'm with Quietus & Raf, I as well am in a "writing rut"

[Binkatong]

I usually get it while I'm roleplaying, which is the time when you need it the least...

[Carraka]

Well, it should be easier with roleplaying, because there really is an audience on the other end that bugs you when you don't respond.

Except I'm not really bugging Imelda. Or anyone else. Someone does bug me though, and she always manages to guilt me into responding promptly for a week or two.

[jordanisonfire]

Yay, I broke through my writers' block! ^^ I've also decided to turn my fantasy heptalogy into sci-fi, but it'll still be kind of a mix. Like the future, except with magic, medieval weapons and the old clothes.

[DreamChaser]

It's really not that I get writers block....It's just sometimes I don't feel like writing for a while....I'm lazy like that...but I do love having all my ideas flowing through my head even though I don't feel like typing.

[Simmi]

I suffer from writers block frequently since I write at night... I'm usually tired and can't think straight.

[random_writer]

I envy people who can just crank out stories like nothing ("Nothing" being used loosely.)
I seem to have developed chronic writer's block, and it almost hurts, it restricts the word flow so much. I was hoping to get a lot done this summer... but no.

[Ace-Darkeyes]

Sometimes...

[Spacepirate]

Ah the myth that is Writer's Block, which I don't really believe in.

'Tis all a mental state of mind (or procrastination).

I agree with some people that I don't get writer's block, but there are some times when I can't be bothered to write etc...

[Rouge]

Ah the myth that is Writer's Block, which I don't really believe in.

'Tis all a mental state of mind (or procrastination).

I agree with some people that I don't get writer's block, but there are some times when I can't be bothered to write etc...

Agreed, wholeheartedly.

[Spacepirate]

Agreed, wholeheartedly.

Ironic if we all got writers' block tomorrow....

[generalmartacus]

Yeah, I'd prefer to liken "Writer's Block" to a sort of intermittent cancer that comes back to bite me every now and then, but if I'm not purposely taking a break from the work, it really can just be called "Procrastination Block." Sad, really.

[pockyfreak]

I have it horribly
:( i can write but its very restricted. i think it has to do with my procrastination, i get the ideas but i never write them down and if i do they dont sound very good.

[Anira]

I usually don't get writer's block except for the fact that I have it right now (which is partly to do with the fact that I don't have my laptop with me and therefore don't feel very motivated to write, but it also is that I can't think of what comes next).

[avettica]

I get it sometimes, but most of the time it's just my brain being lazy and not wanting to think.

[NAT says RAWR.]

All the time ):
I never did before until I stopped writing for a while. Bad idea!

[Clawfire]

Sometimes...

[dragonheart]

I'm amazed that some people haven't.

[wutheringheights]

Whenever I'm not excited to write in one of my books (I have a problem with writing more than one book at a time), I know it's because I've got writers' block, so I usually just don't write in that one and move on to another until I feel like writing in that one again (did that sound confusing to you?)