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Re: Getting in the mood

 
 
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:09:07 -0500 Melanie <m*@optonline.net> writes:
 
>Writer's block - arrgh! I was wondering what tips all you experts have for those moments you deal with >writer's block.
 
The best advice I ever got was to just sit down at the typewriter (at that time) and start writing. Anything. Just hit the keys with chain of consciousness. "Damn, it's cold out. And snowing. I should be working on this Rasmussin thing, but nothing comes to mind. He's been my mentor for a decade, and I don't ... wait. Is that a lead?  Mr. Rassmussin has been my mentor   . . . then what?  OK, The least of his accomplishments  ......"
 
Anyway, you get the idea. This does a couple of things. First, it gets you on the keyboard. Sometimes that leap is the toughest to make. And second, I found that eventually the words started to crystalize.
 
On a related topic. In the beginning as a weekly columnist, I sometimes had trouble finding what to write about. I'd just go out into the garden and start working, and fbefore long I'd come on something that deserved a column.  That was three decades ago.  Now my problem is more deciding what not to write about, as each week there are at least three or four things I want to cover.

D
 
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