Post by Derek Glow on Apr 17, 2010 16:33:49 GMT -5
Lol, I'm working on a dead muse guide. it's a WIP, but it's coming along okay...
It looks much purtier when it's got all the fancy text and stuff... lawl. But I'm almost done! Now I need to quit putting it off....... -_-
SWIFTY’S GUIDE TO DEAD MUSE
A lot of us writers understand the curse of dead muse. At the moment, my muse is hiding in Severus Snape’s Dungeon. It hates me, or so it has seemed lately. My muse has been dead for days.
How do you deal with dead muse? I mean, what’re you gonna do? Muse, when it’s gone, is hard to get back.
Rping muse; book writing muse; heck, muse in general, I mean, what do you do?
Over my writing experiences, I have collected ways to help muse. This is my guide full of those ways. I hope they help, writers, because if they don’t, you’re pretty much jaded.
AND SO IT BEGINS!
THE MILD CASES; WHAT TO DO.
1. You have writer’s block. (and even as I am writing this, I have just the same thing. It’s terrible.) Your brain feels like it’s going to liquidate and melt out of your ears. I will say one thing; GET AWAY FROM WHAT YOU’RE WRITING. Take a thirty minute break or something. Come back to it.
If that doesn’t help, plop down and turn on some music. For my muse, I like fast paced songs for writing. Or Jason Mraz. It depends. What do you think will help? Everyone is different. Mix up the genres and see what works best.
If all else fails, go to Google. It solves everything. Most of the time. Pinpoint what the problem is; word choice? Adjectives, nouns? Or are you just plain stuck and don’t know what to do next? Look it up. Something is bound to help you.
I also like to get outside. The fresh air clears your head a little, makes things make more sense. Honestly, it helps. Unless it’s freezing cold and snowing… or thunder storming.
The last thing you can do? Take a nap. Or be done for the night, whatever. Just sleep.
THE MEDIUM CASES; WHAT TO DO
Oh no… you have the next step up from writer’s block. Oh gawsh, you’re gonna explode. Listen; don’t let it get in your head. Writer’s blank just makes you crazy.
Okay, so you are absolutely brain-dead, it seems. You can’t think of anything. I call this writer’s blank.
The problem is, your plot is falling apart and you don’t know what should happen next. That’s okay; it’ll happen a lot, you just need to get used to it.
Grab some water. Not soda, not orange juice, not some little girly fruity drink, just water. It relieve headaches pretty well and clears your brain a little.
If you’re smart, you already had some music on. Well, be a dork. Turn it up louder. Dance if you want to. Just… sing. I swear, it helps so much.
If you don’t want to make a fool of yourself by singing and dancing, grab a pencil and paper. Write down ideas for the plot. Once those ideas start coming, they keep getting better and better. Soon it’s a long train of thought. And then, Whoa!, you’ve got ideas coming out of your ears. You can use one, two, fifteen, it doesn’t matter; but eventually you might have some “this’ll happen next!” kinda things and “this’ll happen in the seventh chapter!” and what not.
THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO; WHAT TO DO
Oh. My. Gawsh. Your muse is completely destroyed. AHHH!!!
This… is where things get hard.
A lot of us writers understand the curse of dead muse. At the moment, my muse is hiding in Severus Snape’s Dungeon. It hates me, or so it has seemed lately. My muse has been dead for days.
How do you deal with dead muse? I mean, what’re you gonna do? Muse, when it’s gone, is hard to get back.
Rping muse; book writing muse; heck, muse in general, I mean, what do you do?
Over my writing experiences, I have collected ways to help muse. This is my guide full of those ways. I hope they help, writers, because if they don’t, you’re pretty much jaded.
AND SO IT BEGINS!
THE MILD CASES; WHAT TO DO.
1. You have writer’s block. (and even as I am writing this, I have just the same thing. It’s terrible.) Your brain feels like it’s going to liquidate and melt out of your ears. I will say one thing; GET AWAY FROM WHAT YOU’RE WRITING. Take a thirty minute break or something. Come back to it.
If that doesn’t help, plop down and turn on some music. For my muse, I like fast paced songs for writing. Or Jason Mraz. It depends. What do you think will help? Everyone is different. Mix up the genres and see what works best.
If all else fails, go to Google. It solves everything. Most of the time. Pinpoint what the problem is; word choice? Adjectives, nouns? Or are you just plain stuck and don’t know what to do next? Look it up. Something is bound to help you.
I also like to get outside. The fresh air clears your head a little, makes things make more sense. Honestly, it helps. Unless it’s freezing cold and snowing… or thunder storming.
The last thing you can do? Take a nap. Or be done for the night, whatever. Just sleep.
THE MEDIUM CASES; WHAT TO DO
Oh no… you have the next step up from writer’s block. Oh gawsh, you’re gonna explode. Listen; don’t let it get in your head. Writer’s blank just makes you crazy.
Okay, so you are absolutely brain-dead, it seems. You can’t think of anything. I call this writer’s blank.
The problem is, your plot is falling apart and you don’t know what should happen next. That’s okay; it’ll happen a lot, you just need to get used to it.
Grab some water. Not soda, not orange juice, not some little girly fruity drink, just water. It relieve headaches pretty well and clears your brain a little.
If you’re smart, you already had some music on. Well, be a dork. Turn it up louder. Dance if you want to. Just… sing. I swear, it helps so much.
If you don’t want to make a fool of yourself by singing and dancing, grab a pencil and paper. Write down ideas for the plot. Once those ideas start coming, they keep getting better and better. Soon it’s a long train of thought. And then, Whoa!, you’ve got ideas coming out of your ears. You can use one, two, fifteen, it doesn’t matter; but eventually you might have some “this’ll happen next!” kinda things and “this’ll happen in the seventh chapter!” and what not.
THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO; WHAT TO DO
Oh. My. Gawsh. Your muse is completely destroyed. AHHH!!!
This… is where things get hard.
It looks much purtier when it's got all the fancy text and stuff... lawl. But I'm almost done! Now I need to quit putting it off....... -_-
