Comments on: Writer's Block Cure #1 http://www.kriscramer.com/writers-block-cure-1 author & screenwriter Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:16:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: anonymous http://www.kriscramer.com/writers-block-cure-1#comment-4925 anonymous Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:56:11 +0000 http://www.kriscramer.com/?p=101#comment-4925 haha so cute =D it's like when you first start out drawing you (maybe) trace then copy and then finally drawing your own lines after familiarising yourself/planning out your own way to draw existing ones. though admittedly, writing is like taking the encyclopedias and indexes for everything you've stored and formed in your head and mapping them out for and into a story. viewed this way,..it all just sounds so exciting haha so cute =D it's like when you first start out drawing you (maybe) trace then copy and then finally drawing your own lines after familiarising yourself/planning out your own way to draw existing ones. though admittedly, writing is like taking the encyclopedias and indexes for everything you've stored and formed in your head and mapping them out for and into a story. viewed this way,..it all just sounds so exciting

]]> By: Simone http://www.kriscramer.com/writers-block-cure-1#comment-3461 Simone Sun, 15 May 2011 04:49:20 +0000 http://www.kriscramer.com/?p=101#comment-3461 OMG Kris, this is a FANTASTIC idea and I'm going to try it. It sounds like stretching before a workout in a way. I'm going to see if this helps me - I used to have the kind of writer's block where I was completely bereft of ideas - now I have a virtual cornucopia of ideas, but each time I sit to write, I get maybe a paragraph or two in and then I freeze. I hope this works for me, I'm quitting my high paying job so I can work on my book(s) for the next 4-6 months. I think I'll transcribe the first 10 pages of "The Day of the Triffids," one of my all-time favourites, and see if will unblock me, like psyllium fibre for the creative soul. LOL! You know, I thought about doing something similar to this years ago, but thought of it as "cheating" - using one of my favourite books as a "template" or a formula - start the action when my favourite author starts the action, describing my world while the author describes his - I wouldn't be copying him, I'd be writing my own story. I thought about using the book as a guide to see if I could write something original while having the structure of another novel that would act as a blueprint for my own story. I don't know if that's the wrong way to go about it - I've never tried it though. I'll try your method and see if it unlocks my fear of writing something horrid (or nothing at all). It seems that as soon as I start writing, a little voice creeps into my head and says, "You'd better get this right. You'd better not suck, or you will have quit your secure job for nothing, and you'll end up starving in the street." LOL! Yeah, I don't put any pressure on myself at ALL. ;) OMG Kris, this is a FANTASTIC idea and I'm going to try it. It sounds like stretching before a workout in a way. I'm going to see if this helps me - I used to have the kind of writer's block where I was completely bereft of ideas - now I have a virtual cornucopia of ideas, but each time I sit to write, I get maybe a paragraph or two in and then I freeze. I hope this works for me, I'm quitting my high paying job so I can work on my book(s) for the next 4-6 months. I think I'll transcribe the first 10 pages of "The Day of the Triffids," one of my all-time favourites, and see if will unblock me, like psyllium fibre for the creative soul. LOL!

You know, I thought about doing something similar to this years ago, but thought of it as "cheating" - using one of my favourite books as a "template" or a formula - start the action when my favourite author starts the action, describing my world while the author describes his - I wouldn't be copying him, I'd be writing my own story. I thought about using the book as a guide to see if I could write something original while having the structure of another novel that would act as a blueprint for my own story. I don't know if that's the wrong way to go about it - I've never tried it though.

I'll try your method and see if it unlocks my fear of writing something horrid (or nothing at all). It seems that as soon as I start writing, a little voice creeps into my head and says, "You'd better get this right. You'd better not suck, or you will have quit your secure job for nothing, and you'll end up starving in the street." LOL! Yeah, I don't put any pressure on myself at ALL. ;)

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