 Fantasy: August 13, 2014 Issue [#6488] |
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This week: Don't Blame It On Writer's Block Edited by: Prosperous Snow celebrating  
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I stare at the screen without a clue
Of what to write
I don't know what to do
Until I walk out in the sun
And go to a bookstore to have some fun
Plowing through books and magazines
For the seed of my next character or plot
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When I cannot write or think of a plot, I tend to blame it on Writer's Block. I realized today that this is not the case because I have no problems composing blog entries. I can respond to a blog prompt by writing a flash fiction story or poem without any problem. I have difficulty sitting down at the keyboard to write a story or poem without a prompt. This is a recent issue, since I cannot let it bother me or I will stop writing.
The first thing to do when confronted with a problem is write it down. Problem: I cannot write without a prompt. Solution: Look for prompts in my environment. I live in Las Vegas. I live in a multicultural neighborhood. A neighborhood in which I would expect to encounter other then humans, pigeons or wild birds, cats and dogs. I would not expect to encounter farm animals such as chickens. Yet every morning when I open my front door, I hear roosters crowing. Somewhere in this neighborhood, that is in the middle of Las Vegas, there are flocks chickens. There is a prompt for a story right in my own neighborhood.
Another place to look for prompts is in magazines. Fortunately, I do not have to walk or drive all the way to a bookstore. When I went to the grocery store last week, I bought a Scientific American. Under the title of the magazine is the headline "Living in the Connected World", which is a good prompt for a science fiction story. When I opened the magazine and looked under Features, I found more prompts for both fantasy and science fiction stories. I cannot blame my writing difficulty on writer's block because there is an abundance of ideas in my environment. All I have to do is open my eyes and ears to find prompts to base stories on.
I urge everyone to get out and find something in your environment to write a story about. If you have any other ideas then please let me know. Ideas for anything from newsletter subjects to ways to overcome writing problems.
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Excerpt: The fairy sounded the warning, but it was too late. Humans descended in massive swarms, leaving the poor, bewildered fairies too easy to capture. Poor Flower, the youngest of the fairy kingdom, was taken by one of the youngest humans. Miranda was only six years old, but even then, she knew what her parents were doing was wrong. Nevertheless, she wanted to take Flower Fairy to play with, just because she was lonely; nobody wanted to play with her.
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Excerpt: The story you are about to embark upon, was written as an episode for “Star Trek: Voyager” in the fall of 2000. I was going to submit it for consideration as a script for the sixth season of the series, but learned from a script source that by the time I had started submission, "ST:V" had already been mapped out through the series finale. They did, however, encourage me to retain it as it was, in their words, “a well-crafted story”.
Excerpt: Agramon was a giant. Not the tallest most famous giant, but definitely a giant. He lived on top of Knob Hill in a beautiful castle built just for him by a family long gone. Knob Hill had its own zip code, a different one than the town at the bottom of the hill. Every afternoon Agramon walked to his mail box at the bottom of the hill and opened it. Nothing was ever in there, but he checked the mail every day before going back home to eat a snack from his peach tree.
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Excerpt: “Ciara, it is time for dinner! Come soon, before the soup gets cold!”
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Excerpt: “In the middle of the ocean. How did I end up here? Oh yes, I remember! My wife decided I needed a vacation. What I really think she meant is that she needed a vacation from me. So she buys me a boat, sends me off on this crazy sea voyage, and what happens? It sinks. It sinks! And now, I can’t even see anything because there’s so much fog around! I feel like I’m in our tiny little shower thing at home where she put up her pink curtains… PINK… in my bathroom. Can you imagine? Geez, and now I’m talking to myself, maybe I’m…
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RICHARD  writes: I did not realize that I had beento haphazard in giving my feed back, I am not sure as to how to recreate the problem. Or rather undo it.
If someone could give me a hand in this matter.
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brom21  writes: I’ve never heard of a supermoon before, I find it very fascinating; I might even use in a story someday. I’ll mark my calendar for the next one. This also reminds me of those paintings with multiple giant moons and colorful nebulas in the sky. Do you know what I’m talking about? I see them in a lot of sci-fi shows and movies. Thanks for telling me about this!
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