Comments on: Less of the Freud, Please http://arjysworld.com/2009/01/less-of-the-freud/ Gaming, Music, The Internet, Whatever.... Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:50:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: The Smiling Assassin http://arjysworld.com/2009/01/less-of-the-freud/comment-page-1/#comment-24 The Smiling Assassin Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:13:04 +0000 http://thesmilingassassin.co.uk/?p=197#comment-24 I did that last night after I finished this post. Did help clear my mind a bit and will go back to it tonight/tomorrow to finish it off. Need to get back into the swing again, couldn't seem to type for shit last night. That will probably be the best place to start. I did that last night after I finished this post. Did help clear my mind a bit and will go back to it tonight/tomorrow to finish it off.

Need to get back into the swing again, couldn’t seem to type for shit last night. That will probably be the best place to start.

]]> By: flotsky http://arjysworld.com/2009/01/less-of-the-freud/comment-page-1/#comment-23 flotsky Mon, 12 Jan 2009 01:35:12 +0000 http://thesmilingassassin.co.uk/?p=197#comment-23 If I knew the answer to writer's block, I would 1) Tell you and 2) Have some sort of lovely patent on it that would be funding the building of the world's finest pinball museum. I always think back to what Douglas Adams said about writing, which was (and I'm paraphrasing wildly here) "Writing is easy, all you have to do is stare at a piece of paper until your head bleeds". He was particularly talented in the area of writer's block, as at least two of his books were finished after his publisher almost forcible locked him in hotel rooms. There are also accusations of some of the books finishing rather abruptly at the point the publisher ripped the last page from the typewriter. Just try writing. Sometimes I'll type nonsense sentences until I can think of what I actually want to say, then delete back over them. Use a notebook or fancy phone/ipod to take down germs of ideas when they appear. As I'm sat at a computer most of the time, I use Google Notebook to do that, and add scribbled notes to that when I next reach a computer. And use drafts, if you've got an idea that isn't working/quite right yet (I'm talking more for blog posts here), write what you can, and if it's not publishable, write notes or words at the end of it to remember what your intent is, then save it as a draft, and come back to it the next day/a few days later/weeks/months etc. If I knew the answer to writer’s block, I would 1) Tell you and 2) Have some sort of lovely patent on it that would be funding the building of the world’s finest pinball museum. I always think back to what Douglas Adams said about writing, which was (and I’m paraphrasing wildly here) “Writing is easy, all you have to do is stare at a piece of paper until your head bleeds”. He was particularly talented in the area of writer’s block, as at least two of his books were finished after his publisher almost forcible locked him in hotel rooms. There are also accusations of some of the books finishing rather abruptly at the point the publisher ripped the last page from the typewriter.

Just try writing. Sometimes I’ll type nonsense sentences until I can think of what I actually want to say, then delete back over them. Use a notebook or fancy phone/ipod to take down germs of ideas when they appear. As I’m sat at a computer most of the time, I use Google Notebook to do that, and add scribbled notes to that when I next reach a computer. And use drafts, if you’ve got an idea that isn’t working/quite right yet (I’m talking more for blog posts here), write what you can, and if it’s not publishable, write notes or words at the end of it to remember what your intent is, then save it as a draft, and come back to it the next day/a few days later/weeks/months etc.

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