It’s been a while since I posted and to tell the truth I sort of forgot about this Blog. I originally started it when I came across it accidently when I was checking out the capability of Google and found out that, because I have a Gmail address I also have a Blog site as well. Since I had the Blog I thought I might as well use it to record some thoughts and see what happens.
Sometimes when I write I come across the dreaded blank page syndrome. That is where I open a new Word document and nothing comes to mind to write, and any of the ideas that I have written down in my little notepad when inspiration hits don’t fire up my imagination. I have read several articles and book chapters from different writers on how to combat this but these techniques only work occasionally for me.
The most consistent technique is one that I have come across myself, and that is changing the medium in which I write. That is, instead of using word I will write in a notebook, or talk into my phone to record a story or, now, blog about an idea. This may not be a big revelation for most writers but it has been a huge help for me. For some reason changing the medium changes the way I think and so the writer’s block goes away. It also changes the type of stories that I write. I tend to write more contemporary novels on Word, Sci Fi/fantasy on paper, history on voice recordings and twisted stories on the blog (as stated in an earlier post I have two blogs. I use the other one for ideas as it is under a pseudonym) and once I write a 1st person introspective story in excel, just to see if that would work. It didn’t but the story idea is still there when I want to try it in another medium.
As a technophile I find it ironic that I write Sci Fi on paper but that just seems to work best for me. As lazy speller I also find I make a lot of spelling mistakes on paper. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing as that ends up making exotic sounding place and people names to use, but it can be difficult sometimes when I get obsessed with correcting all my spelling mistakes on paper. I can’t wait for the day they invent paper with a delete button It will save a lot of crossing out. I’m just glad that Blogs such as this one have spell check on it as well. I am becoming a very lazy speller indeed.
Anyway I am using this as a way of procrastinating at the moment and should get back into finishing editing my latest story. There are a few competitions coming up that it would be good for and these things don’t edit themselves. Unfortunately.
Until next time
