Overcoming Writer's Block

It's been a crazy couple of weeks!  Between finals, dance, and just trying to not lose my mind, I'm surprised I managed to find time to do anything.  With seven weeks of no class looming ahead of me, I've been trying to figure out what I'm going to do.

As those close to me know, I'm a writer first and foremost.  My brain doesn't turn off like a normal person's, and often, I write multiple stories/novels at once.  While I've yet to be published, I don't stop writing.  My main problem is writer's block.  Whenever I get it, I start work on a new idea I had, and then the process repeats.  In an effort to finally finish a novel I've been working on for two years, I've started to rewrite it... again. 

The easiest way for me to begin was to start at the basic level, developing the characters fully and putting that on paper.  Over the next few days, I'll be hammering out those details.  It's interesting to see how these characters look on paper when they aren't just shouting instructions in my head about their story.

The next step is an outline.  Up to this point, I'd had an idea of where I wanted the story to go, but I hadn't put it all down on paper so details were getting lost in translation.  By having an outline, I'll be able to keep writing, even when things seem bleak.  As soon as that's done, I'll be able to buckle down and finally write!

Meanwhile, I've also been working on creating visual aids to help me with the writing.  As I've been working on getting my character development on paper.  Having some of the personal effects of my characters helps me channel them, to truly get the tone of the situation they're in.  I also have a tendency to act out their fights, to see exactly how it would work.

Now that I've babbled some about my writing exercises, feel free to leave me a comment about your own.

Good Things

Well... it's official.  My spring break is over.  No more.  Classes start again tomorrow for me and I get the lovely pleasure of sitting through yet another lecture on music.  While I love music--obviously, wrocker, remember?--I have to try my hardest not to correct my professor's petty mistakes.  While I'm no expert on music, I do know the difference between harmony and melody for goodness sake.   Musical theory?  No problem.  I'm a quick study and music is one of the few things I've remained passionate about for the last seventeen years of my life.

Meanwhile, I've also got Algebra.  I love this class to death, I really do, which is saying something because I normally bomb my math classes.  The only bad thing?  I've gotten used to not starving myself over spring break.  The class is scheduled in such a way that I miss lunch.  I can't even eat anything right after, because I have dance then.

Now, I really have nothing more to say, as it is time for me to hit the sack so I can be up with the sun tomorrow.

“All good things were at one time bad things; every original sin has developed into an original virtue.” ~Friedrich Nietzsche