Current Events > How do you force yourself to write?

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Just start writing garbage or stream of conscious stuff and then go from there. Starting with an empty page is the biggest initial barrier for writer's block.
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I don't. I enjoy writing....I just wrote a short story about Death not killing someone for snacks.
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As an author, you write out the bare structure of the story and then flair it up later. You'd be surprised with how much you can cover in half an hour.
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Smoke a joint, then let the creativity flow
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ZCheveyo posted...

I don't. I enjoy writing...

For fuck's sake.
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In my limited experience, you can't really force yourself to do it.

I've tried and I end up just losing interest really quickly. I typically have to be inspired to start writing at all.
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I write in a general direction of where I might want to go, kinda without too much real effort put into it. Then I look back at it, read it over a couple times and realize how much it sucks.

That makes me wanna do better and keep writing until I'M happy
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I don't. I enjoy writing....I just wrote a short story about Death not killing someone for snacks.

Did you write a story about Death accepting snacks in exchange for sparing someone?
Or did you write a story about Dearh refusing a payment of snacks because he didn't want to kill someone?
Or did you accept snacks as payment for writing a story about Death not killing someone?
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DevsBro posted...

Did you write a story about Death accepting snacks in exchange for sparing someone?

This one.
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I haven't done any prose in a while, but when I'm writing poetry or music, I'll start with something really basic, and then dress it up and fuck with it.

So, for example, I was diddling around on my keyboard one day, and played a three note motif that I thought sounded cool. (M2 up, P4 down, in this case it was Bb, C, G.) So I started fucking with it and improvising shit, and before I knew it I had spent two weeks writing a five minute piece of music.

I think it helps a lot to build upon a few small ideas rather than to go full-bore into large stuff. Hell, even starting with a tired cliche or trope can be helpful (like writing a poem in iambic pentameter or blank verse).

Basically, the more limits you put upon yourself, the easier it is to be creative. I remember there was a topic on here a few years ago where the TC asked us to write a story using 15 words total. We got a lot of neat ideas (and of course plenty of bullshit).
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