The Medusa Fora

Heather wrote:I end up sitting at my computer not having a clue what to write, or writing something completely boring.
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Meh! Just write. The subconscious, which is at least one of your tools, works in strange ways. For this reason, nothing you write should ever be graded "boring". It's just part of a process, like a sculptor has to chip away at the outer edges of the block of stone or marble before she gets to the part which will be useful to the final shape of the piece. Best advice I ever got was "Just show up at the page".

philipchevron wrote:

Heather wrote:I end up sitting at my computer not having a clue what to write, or writing something completely boring.
.

Meh! Just write. The subconscious, which is at least one of your tools, works in strange ways. For this reason, nothing you write should ever be graded "boring". It's just part of a process, like a sculptor has to chip away at the outer edges of the block of stone or marble before she gets to the part which will be useful to the final shape of the piece. Best advice I ever got was "Just show up at the page".

I write something every day. It might be rubbish that gets scrapped later, but actually getting something down is part of the discipline. Mind you, I never throw anything away . . . I have a Word document marked 'dump' and I cut and paste rejected material in there. It might come in useful later.

What I probably enjoy most is the editing process where I can knock the first draft into shape.

I liked the quote from a novelist friend who once said briskly: "I can't afford to have writer's block."

Shaz wrote:

philipchevron wrote:

Heather wrote:I end up sitting at my computer not having a clue what to write, or writing something completely boring.
.

Meh! Just write. The subconscious, which is at least one of your tools, works in strange ways. For this reason, nothing you write should ever be graded "boring". It's just part of a process, like a sculptor has to chip away at the outer edges of the block of stone or marble before she gets to the part which will be useful to the final shape of the piece. Best advice I ever got was "Just show up at the page".

I write something every day. It might be rubbish that gets scrapped later, but actually getting something down is part of the discipline. Mind you, I never throw anything away . . . I have a Word document marked 'dump' and I cut and paste rejected material in there. It might come in useful later.

What I probably enjoy most is the editing process where I can knock the first draft into shape.

I liked the quote from a novelist friend who once said briskly: "I can't afford to have writer's block."

I find this interesting. Most of my ideas our shaped as I write. Searching for a muse can at times be fruitless.