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Writer's Block : Do's & Don'ts
It hits you when
you least expect it and when it hits you, you don’t know where
to turn and what to do and it hits every writer in every form of
writing. A writer having got his first screenplay contract will
scratch his head till blood starts pouring but cannot find a way
inside his characters head. An article writer looks at the deadline
and remembers his heydays when words flowed like water and now looks
surprisingly at the dry tap which is open but nothing is pouring
out and believe me nothing can prepare you for it. Your god like
powers to twist and turn words into symphony for your audience and
that very important but often insulted term money for you eludes
you, like a beautiful women a woman who was your soul mate, your
bedmate who laughed and cried with you now is standing there indifferent
and you don’t know what to do.
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So
before I delve into what to do I will delve into what not
to do :
1.
Don’t look at that bottle, that cigarette that
whatever is your crime for salvation, it the perfect strategy
for doom and depression.
2. Do not question your ability and
inherent writing instincts they are not gone just
your brain cannot find the missing file.
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3.
Do not believe that if you do nothing but wait for some
time … some days … some years …. Get my drift.
You may well write something else on some other topic
on some other character but the writer’s block that
you had will not go away for that specific problem which
gave birth to it in the very first place.
4. Don’t give to much attention to it because
if you do that it will turn into a nagging spouse that
will not let you sleep, eat, etc... Etc
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Now having
established some ground rules on not what to do let us look
at what to do
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1.
Research: most writers ignore the power of
research and very often fiction writer do that if you
have got a character problem write the complete bio
on that character from his birth till now do research
on the setting, back-story, secondary characters and
more often then not a insight will at you in your face
and article writers and other technical writers need
to put in more and more research because that’s what
gets you a new perceptive
2. Writers block does not mean
that you have forgotten how to write so don’t stop writing
write a free flow character graph write whatever comes
top your mind if you want one page write fifty and then
squeeze it to get what you want.
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3. Sometimes writer
block comes from inside from your own thoughts
about a particular topic or issue your own perspective clouds
your objectivity .fiction writers don’t want their characters
to do something which they themselves don’t agree to and find
ways to go around that, that’s dangerous a writer need to
be dispassionate and objective about his article, issue, topic
or character do not allow your own demons and angels to cloud
your writing.
So here are some do and don’ts this list is not by any means
exhaustive but I do hope it’s useful in bringing that elusive
beauty called writing back to you.
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Contributing Author: Vishal Arora,
I am creative writer/scriptwriter working
with a mnc in the training field .I am a proficient in writing fiction
and articles on finance, technical analysis on shares and stocks
and also business development and general interest articles on any
topic from politics to social issues. My forte is scriptwriting
and story writing fiction.
vishal_arora76@rediffmail.com
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