 Action/Adventure: March 24, 2010 Issue [#3633] |
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Nothing beats a creative visit from your muse. Ideas emerge, words flow, stories develop. What happens when creativity decides to take a hike? When your muse goes AWOL, leaving you high and dry, holding a half-written story on typewriter? Caught in the middle of a writing project, ripped of your creativity can prove frustrating. How can writers work through dry spells?
Stay the Course - Keep working. Writers and authors lucky enough to pull a full time check from their words know this to be true. Think about it…how many days to you dread getting going to work? No one carries a happy to be here smile on his face all 40 hours of the workweek. Who can afford to bag work every time the sun is shining, or the Braves play the Pirates under the hot Georgia sun? Not to mention every time your friends score a boat and invite you water skiing.
Same thing with writing. Not all moments come equipped with a creative muse, free quiet time, no interruptions and an endless supply of caffeine. During dry spells, peck the keyboard at a snail’s pace. Tell yourself you don’t have a choice, keep working through droughts. Turn on some music and forge ahead. You’ll find the more you practice this approach, the faster you’ll work through those tough times.
Change Gears – stuck in a particular scene or chapter? Skip it and move on to the next. Changing scenery puts a new perspective on creativeness. Even if you edit out your words, you’ve maintained the motions. It’s better to keep going than get distracted by frustration.
Set A Deadline Ask any freelance writer and she’ll tell you, deadlines produce results. If generating your own deadlines proves inadequate, sign up for contests—they have their own built-in deadlines. Other options include enrolling in classes, or projects such as NaNoWriMo or Script Frenzy.
The next time you walk up unexpectedly on a creative drought, change gears and keep plugging along, or, set “deadlines” and sighn up for contests or projects. Following these practices on a regular basis will have you working straight through your dry spells in no time.
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