Nothing of great importance.

[Datan]

I was just wondering if I'm the only person to have such terrible writer's block/drawing block. Oh, the frustration is truly great. I haven't been able to come up with anything new in weeks. An acquaintance of mine is having a contest to which the winner will win three pages of her very pretty hand-drawn doujinshi (japanese for 'fan made comic book or page').

I would very much like to win, but, like I said, I can think of nothing worth while to draw nor write.

[slams head against wall]

Getting an 'A' in English hardly means creativity abound.

[Guest]

I was just wondering if I'm the only person to have such terrible writer's block/drawing block. Oh, the frustration is truly great. I haven't been able to come up with anything new in weeks. An acquaintance of mine is having a contest to which the winner will win three pages of her very pretty hand-drawn doujinshi (japanese for 'fan made comic book or page').

I would very much like to win, but, like I said, I can think of nothing worth while to draw nor write.

[slams head against wall]

Getting an 'A' in English hardly means creativity abound.

When I have a problem with the infamous "blank page" syndrome, I usually will sit back and read the Bible for awhile after asking the Lord's help. Then find a verse that speaks to you, and write up some notes on it in one of the free Bible software suites that are available, or in an editor program. That usually causes the "dam" to break for me.

BTW: [slams head against wall]? We have an emoticon for that! ==>

Hope this helps!

[Datan]

I was just wondering if I'm the only person to have such terrible writer's block/drawing block. Oh, the frustration is truly great. I haven't been able to come up with anything new in weeks. An acquaintance of mine is having a contest to which the winner will win three pages of her very pretty hand-drawn doujinshi (japanese for 'fan made comic book or page').

I would very much like to win, but, like I said, I can think of nothing worth while to draw nor write.

[slams head against wall]

Getting an 'A' in English hardly means creativity abound.

When I have a problem with the infamous "blank page" syndrome, I usually will sit back and read the Bible for awhile after asking the Lord's help. Then find a verse that speaks to you, and write up some notes on it in one of the free Bible software suites that are available, or in an editor program. That usually causes the "dam" to break for me.

BTW: [slams head against wall]? We have an emoticon for that! ==>

Hope this helps!

That's actually a really good idea o.O. I would not have thought about turning to the bible for such help. It's kind of funny, though. After writing what I wrote, it kind of went away. Not that I'm a genius at writing or anything, but my 'drawing block' sort of subsided and I was able to get started on a long-awaited project. But for the writer's block, I'm going to try and do what you recommended. It could just work :].

Loll. That's cute xD. I'll keep that one in mind for my term-paper -- they're fuuunnnn.

Are you a writer, by the way?

I love meeting fellow writers, for I hardly know any.

[Scum_of_the_Earth]

When I once complained of writer's block, I was told true writers never experience that. I don't know whether I necessarily agree with that statement or not, but the advice that followed was really great and I've tried it ever since and found it very beneficial.

Just write all the time. Keep a notebook of some sort with you at all times and write in it. Write thoughts, write ideas, write words that you've heard but don't know the meaning to. I was also told to continue reading constantly as much as I could, as their really isn't any new ideas out there, just recycled and revamped past ideas. Read a short story and write a different ending, then figure out a new beginning to compliment the ending you've written, and there is your own new short story.

Don't sit down with the idea that you're going to write something brilliant. Just always been in writer mode, and something will come from that.

[Marnie]

I praise G-d each and every day for writer's block! That's why I am so busy these days! You would be surprised how many professional authors suffer from this affliction, especially this time of year. Let' see...right now, I am completing 4 manuscripts started by well-known authors who just can't finish. The reason: writer's block. Ah writer's block...one man's curse is MY blessingl

[None]

I wish my mom would develope writer's block. Her stories seem all too familier to me...somehow...

Good luck with that project, BTW, Datan!

[Guest]

That's actually a really good idea o.O. I would not have thought about turning to the bible for such help. It's kind of funny, though. After writing what I wrote, it kind of went away. Not that I'm a genius at writing or anything, but my 'drawing block' sort of subsided and I was able to get started on a long-awaited project. But for the writer's block, I'm going to try and do what you recommended. It could just work :].

Loll. That's cute xD. I'll keep that one in mind for my term-paper -- they're fuuunnnn.

Are you a writer, by the way?

I love meeting fellow writers, for I hardly know any.

I am not a writer by profession, but I have written a book-length manuscript that was lost due to my screwing my life up. The Lord brought me out of all that, and I finally have the time again to think about writing the story again - with a few changes. I've done some writing for work, check lists, and procedures and things like that. At one time I was the editor of the local computer user group when I lived in Louisiana while in the Air Force. Professional "experience" in my case equals zero, but I do it as a hobby to keep myself occupied and avoid doing something where I might get myself in trouble.

[Guest]

I praise G-d each and every day for writer's block! That's why I am so busy these days! You would be surprised how many professional authors suffer from this affliction, especially this time of year. Let' see...right now, I am completing 4 manuscripts started by well-known authors who just can't finish. The reason: writer's block. Ah writer's block...one man's curse is MY blessingl

Well, that's a different way of looking at it, I suppose.

Its interesting how you can sit for hours and get "lost" in something you're writing one day, or for several days -- then its like the mind hits a wall or something. Then you sit down to get some work done, and -- nothing. You are staring at the end of that last paragraph, or chapter, and its like there's nothing else to tell in the story.

I HATE that!

It doesn't happen to me all that often, but when it does I take it to the Lord and then spend some time reading the greatest story ever told. Time with the Lord always does the trick.