I think it was Holmes who said to Watson, "You see, Watson, but you do not observe."
Who ever said it, this became my personal key to dealing with writers block. Here's what I do. If it helps you, great.
I go out. I don't have to go out but I find a change of atmosphere helps. I take a note book or personal recorder with me. I find something I would normally see but not observe, say, like a daisy. I start to observe and write down (or record) every tiny detail about the thing. I look very closely at it. I note the tiny hairs on the stem (If it's a plant like the Daisy) and the shape, thickness and colour of the stem. The sap that oozes out of the bottom of the stem after picking. It's colour, smell, viscosity and so on. I do the same with the petals and every other part of the flower (or whatever it is). Slowly I build up a ton of notes about the object.
Then I look at the environment I found it in and begin making notes on that. Finally, I head home and put these notes with my other notes and THEN I sit down to write.
What this does is get my head into writing mode again and the notes will come in handy should I ever need to describe, in detail, a Daisy or crushed, discarded Coke can or whatever.
Works for me. Give it a shot, might work for you too.
Who ever said it, this became my personal key to dealing with writers block. Here's what I do. If it helps you, great.
I go out. I don't have to go out but I find a change of atmosphere helps. I take a note book or personal recorder with me. I find something I would normally see but not observe, say, like a daisy. I start to observe and write down (or record) every tiny detail about the thing. I look very closely at it. I note the tiny hairs on the stem (If it's a plant like the Daisy) and the shape, thickness and colour of the stem. The sap that oozes out of the bottom of the stem after picking. It's colour, smell, viscosity and so on. I do the same with the petals and every other part of the flower (or whatever it is). Slowly I build up a ton of notes about the object.
Then I look at the environment I found it in and begin making notes on that. Finally, I head home and put these notes with my other notes and THEN I sit down to write.
What this does is get my head into writing mode again and the notes will come in handy should I ever need to describe, in detail, a Daisy or crushed, discarded Coke can or whatever.
Works for me. Give it a shot, might work for you too.
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