Today I’m struglling with writers block. I stared at the screen for almost and hour and....nothing. Zip, nada. Now it wasn’t just a blank screen but page 17 of the current feature screenplay that I already have an outline for. Yes, outlining usually breaks this monotony but not today. Not the coffee or the breakfast got me into a mindset of throwing words into the mouths of my characters.
Sure I know where they’re going. What needs to be said in order for them to move from point M to point N. I even have point Z on the page. It’s just the case that nothing fun, original, or slightly contrived was spewing off my finger-tips.
I have a few writing aides, rum, cookies, porn, you know, the usual. But they just didn’t seem to be the right ingredient to get things moving this afternoon.
I even went to a decent site that deals with Writer’s Block. It talks about hacking the block. Very 2001!
So, I’m going to grab some groceries and see if that throws me back into the fray. I have a deadline and I’m going to meet it!
MTB
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