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Inspiration? someone? please?
Fri, May 2, 2008 - 11:07 AMAnd so, in place of an article, I have written this lovely blog post. And consumed about a gallon of herbal tea. Great…
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Fri, May 2, 2008 - 11:15 AM
it depends on where you want it to go........ i mean....... you can write about how the employment rate has risen for the first time in 6 months, or you could write about dmt gnomes..... you can write about how the media loves to shove meaningless issues in your face and ignore important things..... or you can write about how whether or not free will exists.
maybe you can write about how barak obama didn't play football and decided to be a cub scout and how that might be good or bad for our country...... or if he did the inverse.... was he football and not cub scout... was he neither... do we want someone who was into martial arts as our president? or maybe we can talk about the delusion of a rational voter.... or about the rush experienced during a tribal performance...... i guess it all depends on what paradigm your boss or your writing company tends to focus on... fiction, news, politics, inventions, science........ peace |
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Fri, May 2, 2008 - 12:18 PM
Write about how one might legitimately choose to attend a church even if one does not agree with every single thing the church leader says. Just ask 1 billion Catholics.
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Fri, May 2, 2008 - 5:48 PM
write about what chixs think when having a super pee. :)
I, yeah... umm.. yeah.. |
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Fri, May 2, 2008 - 6:18 PM
I know this probably won't help, but . . .
when I need to work on a a painting or other art project and I just can't do it, it usually means I have the wrong idea. When I walk away and choose a different spot or start over on a different project, my creative energy sometimes just comes pouring out. I you sure you have the "right" idea and notes to work from? Anyway, you've probably finished you article by now, but I thought I'd respond anyway. Good luck!
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Sat, May 3, 2008 - 7:27 AM
well, in this case, i don't so much have a choice. my boss says "write an article on this" and I say "ok. sure thing." that's why the lack of inspiration. and no, heh...I didn't finish it yesterday. I didn't technically even start *headdesk* I did, however, re-read my notes a bunch of times.
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Sat, May 3, 2008 - 7:27 AM
oh and farasha...hmmm... a superpee article? that sounds like an unlikely superhero. :)
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Sat, May 3, 2008 - 1:53 PM
As someone who has had to write creative fiction while under the boss/contract-gun, here are some things I do to defeat the Blockmonster.
If I'm feeling over focused and non-creative, I usually get a bit tipsy. If I'm feeling creative but unmotivated, I consume caffeine. If I'm feeling creative and motivated but unfocused, I usually plagiarize Shakespeare, Dostoevsky's core story plots/themes and plug against-type genre-inappropriate characters into them. Then, I gradually gut out the things that make my sources what they are and by the time I'm done, it's something totally other than what I "plagiarized". If I'm feeling motivated and focused but uncreative, I usually do housework or watch TV until something comes to mind. Whatever you do, don't do the blood from a stone thing. It'll just give you headache and make you resent your chosen craft. I suspect that has something to do with why most writers will never turn down a glass of scotch. |
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Sat, May 3, 2008 - 2:08 PM
fabulous advice Nao... I don't know if booze would fly at my place of work, but I guess I could always put it in a coke bottle and hope no one noticed. I like the plagiarizing Shakespeare plots idea too...I mean, he stole plots too. Although unconventional inspiration methods are difficult to engage in at the office, when working at home I've been known to turn on loud pop or hip hop music and mosh/jump up and down until I was too exhausted to do anything but sit and type...
A pounding heart and lack of oxygen/breath does wonders for inspiration...maybe that's why a lot of people find sex inspiring. Hmmmmm... |
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Sun, May 4, 2008 - 4:30 AM
Do you keep a notebook with you at all times to record tasty ideas that strike out of the blue? I know you're usually assigned a topic, but sometimes mixing and matching elements from far afield with elements imposed by clients/bosses spices up the project, like fusion dance...
Do you keep a deck of oblique strategies handy? (Here's one: www.stretta.com/~matthew/r...blique.pdf) Massive tea infusions have also been one of my personal ways to rocket myself into writing mode. Caffeine's a very verbal drug. And, being kinda male, sex inspires me, but mostly just to pursue more sex...and then fall asleep. But I often wake up with interesting and insightful ideas. Which is a slow way to the job done. But a few hours at the gym sometimes gets some creative juices flowing. I also keep a folder of bookmarks on every computer I use labelled "sources of inspiration," containing mostly interviews and articles with people whose minds I admire, many of which I don't have time to read when I find them. Putting a fuckton of mp3s on random shuffle is good, too. And mindmapping's another viable way to break the block. And some neighborhoods are so interesting that just going for a walk helps ideas flow, but some aren't...foreign movies used to help, but I don't go to the movies any more... |
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Tue, May 6, 2008 - 11:03 AM
A starving chihuahua
A candybowl full of Viagra A plastic tarp Dick Cheney "GO!!!" |
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