Author: sammy ben
Date:   10-07-09 09:51

Well , Sometimes it do happens to me.
Nothing comes up , No idea , no Clue no nothing...
My question is how you get yourself out of it ?
Ho do you start the sparks ?
Where do found your muse or inspiration ?

Tip are very welcome...
Sammy.

Author: Keith .
Date:   10-07-09 10:56

Try here first.

Just for Sammy

Author: leslee
Date:   10-07-09 11:30

Eat a tuna melt. Works for a lot of us. I'm serious.

Author: Keith .
Date:   10-07-09 11:34

Nah, too easy.

Author: leslee
Date:   10-07-09 11:47

Keith just doesn't want you to know he's been relying on tuna melts for years. They clear the mind and please the tummy. I recommend them.

Author: Lisa P
Date:   10-07-09 11:51

LOL, Keith.

leslee, tuna melts never did it for me, but chocolate always inspires.
Warm chocolate even goes beyond that.
; )

Author: leslee
Date:   10-07-09 11:59

See what I mean, Sammy? Inspiration can come in many forms!

Author: sammy ben
Date:   10-07-09 14:18

Well...Thank you all ...I've found this one :
http://bit.ly/126y3G
:)...

Author: jayce
Date:   10-07-09 15:53

What a clever piece of spam. Slipped it right in there between the tuna melt and the chocky.

Author: Gravity Fades
Date:   10-07-09 15:54

"Random writing" seems to work for some people: sit down at the 'puter, turn off your internal editor, and start typing anything, even if it's gibberish. I think the idea is that doing that is like putting Drano in a pipe; it blows out the clog and lets things begin flowing again.

Author: Gravity Fades
Date:   10-07-09 15:56

Crap, I didn't know he was spamming.

Bad dog, Sammy! No Snausages for YOU!

Author: Lisa P
Date:   10-07-09 16:24

I wish I'd come up with the name Snausages.
My puppy loves 'em.
; )

Author: Sam English
Date:   10-07-09 17:02

Looks like sammy ben spammin'.

Author: leslee
Date:   10-07-09 17:27

Snausages is a genius name, I agree.

I thought he had a spammy aroma. That's why I went straight to the tuna melt.

Author: Kris Fehlberg
Date:   10-08-09 14:24

Sorry, this post has nothing to do with tuna melts, snausages or any other delectable edibles, but this is actually what I do.

1. Write backwards. (not literally) I am all excited toward the start of a novel and then block towards the end. So, instead I draft a rough plot outline for the whole MS and then start my actual feverish typing by writing the end. That way the ending doesn't have the deflated feeling that can occur if I do it the other way round.

2. If I am stuck for ideas...any ideas. (like for magazine articles or other mind numbing works for science journals) I go night swimming in the ocean. Works every time. By the time you dry off, provided you aren't arrested for 'forgetting' your suit, the ideas are just flowing like crazy.

sorry...long post.

Author: sam albion
Date:   10-10-09 12:37

Art galleries are my saviour. Pure ideas on the wall. No words, just imagery. Spend an hour in my local gallery, and I'm rejuvenated.

Author: James Olsson
Date:   10-12-09 00:06

During much of the day (not every day, mind you) but on certain days that I'm driving around (I average 100+miles a day, usually closer to 200) I look for weird words on billboards, look for objects out the window that rhyme (as I write a bit of poetry... road/flowed (if I've just driven over a river, "flowed" is a related word and that works.) Of course I already know which rhyming pairs I've hooked together in the past, so it gets tougher and tougher. Start singing B.S. to yourself. It's a good way to stay awake when you're fading at the wheel. Run your finger through the dictionary and pick out ten words at random and write a poem/short story around them. If you're stuck writing a poem... spend a few minutes and write some prose and v.v. If you're really short on ideas ask your teenaged son or daughter if they have any whacky-tobaccy handy. (jk!) Lace your tuna melt with ketchup and vanilla bean ice cream and write a description of the experience... there are gazillions of ways one might recapture their muse!