I have a seriously bad case of writer's block. I have been trying really, really hard to finish a story or come up with a new one. I looked up story generator after story generator and tried generating multiple different stories but none of them were fruitful.
I need Margi Preus. She had my creative writing side inspired every Tuesday and Thursday last semester. Who knew a few weeks without her and my creative juices would run dry? I certainly didn't. I thought she had got a great, big ball rolling but somehow that ball stopped and I want it to move again but I'm having a hard time pushing it.
I sort of felt like I was cheating myself and my readers by using a story generator since they weren't my original ideas. I didn't come up with them on my own or magically stumble upon them going about my day in the normal way like I am supposed to. My best stories have come from personal inspirations or problems.
Hopefully, as the semester goes on, I'll get my creative juices back.
My college lit professor told us that there was no such thing as "writer's block" but just a lazy writer. Perhaps you should try just writing without intent for plot. Just imagine something (or person) and write a page or two just describing it (or them.) Perhaps a story will emerge on its own.
ReplyDeleteWhat you could also do is read the first chapter of your favorite deep thought books and draw some inspiration from them.