Psychiatry has weighed in on the question of creative blocks and have suggested that they have a beginning in the brain, while writers of poetry, story, and novel tell themselves they just need to get out of their own way and just write. We are at once crafting a story that must allow no wires or strings to show; we attempt to stay off stage, behind the curtain, but at times we see ourselves as did the Wizard at the pulleys and gears and we wonder if we may not simply be frauds at work. Then the doubts seep in like water through rock. It’s been done before by better men than me…TV and Film have eaten up and spit out every idea, so why bother? I can’t compete with CGI effects and CSI effects. Why bother. Who do you think you are anyway? Perhaps a man in need of a vacation, a swift kick, a well-meaning nag to thunder and rail at you at such moments? Some external force to challenge you? And if all fails? Are you left on that lonely street called Writers’ Block, and is there or isn’t there such a place?
Although it has been written about in newspapers and magazines, science journals, books on the creative geniuses of our species, books on inventors and sculptors, depicted in untold films and TV programs including Seinfeld, and although a scadfold of medical/psychological articles have been devoted to it along with entire books and a Woody Allen Play, and despite that it has its own Wikipedia page, and that Google has enough entries in it along with ten-step cures for it for hopelessly ‘blocked’ professional…in fact, enough entries to paper a writer’s walls, DOES this thing really exists…or is it all in our heads?
A great many more people believe it is just a writer’s self-serving indulgence, even sloth, that is at work—even in a writer who has penned untold full length, complex novels. Many naysayers point to any other profession and claim these other professions, say pharmacist, bookstore owner, book reviewer, bank teller, even journalist never cry “blocked” and, I presume then, they believe no person in any other profession has ever quit, given up or in, lost days or weeks due to forces within their craniums, had love and hate drive them from a full day’s work or a divorce, the birth of a child, the death of a child, the loss of a job or health..That no journalist ever missed a deadline, no bookstore owner ever closed up shop or the fight against the big box stores and Wal-Mart—forces outside one’s control.
Regardless, there is more than scant evidence and anecdotes about writer’s block that it also occurs with lyricists, poets, and any creative writing arena. If you disbelieve it, Google it. Here below are a handful of the reams of pages on the ‘malaise of the artistic mind which may actually differ from the mind of a McDonald’s worker, a journalist, a shopkeeper, or a news anchor woman; it may be the same difference one finds in a student who can and does complete an Independent Study project and one who is absolutely incapable of completing work wherein s/he has to craft the project, determine its every part and the sum of all, its every parameter from beginning to end with no guarantees of success or payment or heat for the night or pension or percentage or anything.
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Writer's block is a condition, associated with writing as a profession, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work. The condition varies widely in intensity. It can be trivial, a temporary difficulty in dealing with the task in hand. At the other extreme, some "blocked" writers have been unable to work for years on end, and some have even abandoned their careers.
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• 1 Causes of writer's block
• 2 Notable blocked writers
• 3 Writer's block in Music
• 4 Writer's block as depicted in other media
• 5 References
• 6 External links
[edit] Causes of writer's block
Writer's block may have many causes. Some are essentially creative problems that originate within an author's work itself. A writer may run out of inspiration. A project may be fundamentally misconceived, or beyond the author's experience or ability. (A fictional example can be found in George Orwell's novel Keep The Aspidistra Flying, in which the hero Gordon Comstock struggles in vain to complete an epic poem describing a day in London: "It was too big for him, that was the truth. It had never really progressed, it had simply fallen apart into a series of fragments.") [1]
Other blocks, especially the more serious kind, may be produced by adverse circumstances in a writer's life or career: physical illness, depression, the end of a relationship, financial pressures, a sense of failure. The pressure to produce work may in itself contribute to a writer's block, especially if he is compelled to work in ways that are against his natural inclination, i.e. too fast or in some unsuitable style or genre, and he or she is not willing to adapt. In some cases, writer's block may also come from feeling intimidated by a previous big success, the creator putting on him/herself a paralyzing pressure to find something to equate that same success again. The writer Elizabeth Gilbert, reflecting on her post-bestseller prospects, proposes that such a pressure might be released by interpreting creative writers as "having" genius rather than "being" a genius [1]. In George Gissing's New Grub Street, one of the first novels to take writer's block as a main theme, the novelist Edwin Reardon becomes completely unable to write and is shown as suffering from all those problems. [2]
Recently, the writer and neurologist Alice W. Flaherty has argued that literary creativity is a function of specific areas of the brain, and that block may be the result of brain activity being disrupted in those areas. [3]
[edit] Notable blocked writers
Well-known writers who have suffered from block include George Gissing, Samuel Coleridge, Ralph Ellison, Joseph Mitchell and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Writers who overcame block and published new work after a hiatus of decades include Harold Brodkey, whose novel The Runaway Soul appeared some 30 years after it was first projected, and Henry Roth, whose first novel, Call It Sleep, was published in 1934; his second, Mercy Of A Rude Stream, did not appear until 1994.
[edit] Writer's block in Music
The album Black Clouds & Silver Linings by the progressive metal band Dream Theater contains a song called "Wither", which is about the fear of having writer's block suffered by the guitar player of the band John Petrucci. It is said that the songs in this album are about personal experiences.
[edit] Writer's block as depicted in other media
In works where writers appear as characters, writer's block has often been shown as part of the story.
This is an incomplete list, which may never be able to satisfy certain standards for completion. You can help by expanding it with sourced additions.
• 8½
• Adaptation
• Ask the Dust
• Apur Sansar (The World of Apu)
• Bag of Bones
• Barton Fink
• Californication
• Deconstructing Harry
• El Goonish Shive
• Finding Forrester
• George Lucas in Love
• I Capture the Castle
• JONAS
• Kaiyoppu
• Leaving Las Vegas
• October Road
• The Lost Weekend
• Masters of Horror: The Black Cat
• Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities
• Misery
• Quills
• Read or Die
• Secret Window
• Sex and Lucia
• Shabd
• Shakespeare in Love
• Stranger than Fiction
• Swimming Pool
• Sylvia
• The Golden Notebook
• The Shining
• Throw Momma from the Train
• Woman on the Beach
• Wonder Boys
[edit] References
1. ^ George Orwell, Keep The Aspidistra Flying, Chapter 2.
2. ^ George Gissing, New Grub Street.
3. ^ Joan Acolella, "Blocked: why do writers stop writing?, The New Yorker, June 14 2004.
[edit] External links
• Psychology of Writing & Revising
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But still some will adamantly deny the existence of this nebulous gadfly of a disorder that comes and goes, and many of these same people will accept that a writer may have a Muse or may Channel some force from beyond. I leave it up to you, but it has been my experience that those who have never suffered a serious, long-running bout with the Block may well not understand J. Alfred Prufrock’s disconnect with the world either.
I invite you to leave a comment, no matter which side of the discussion you fall or stand on.
My latest e-book is 160,000 words, divides into three books in one and Children of Salem saw many years of being a blocked book and fitting it should hold a curse on it as it details the terrors of a Witch Hunt and subsequent trials, all the while a devil called Block whispering in my ear that I was incapable of crafting this complex story, and yet readers call the control of the material nothing short of genius – enough to make even a jaded old writer blush pink.
Happy Blockless Writing, and do leave a comment for me!
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Writer's block is a creativity issue, and right brain things are so hard to define.
While I believe it exists, I also believe there's many things a writer can do to become unstuck.
I've been so busy promoting, I wish I had time to write more. It's been a while since I had to worry about writer's block.
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My writer's block, if it exists, is comprised mainly of fear and uncertainty. I'm a slug and never finish anything and as long as I don't finish it, in my mind it can be a best seller.
When I'm "stuck" I can usually get unstuck by taking a walk and applying my thoughts to the problem in a free kind of brainstorming session.
The Writer's Mind CD has also been helpful, and one I'm happy to recommend. It supposedely uses brainwave technology. Maybe it works only in my head . . . but that's where I need it!
It exists for me. Those who deny it and claim never to have suffered from it are very lucky folks. Too bad they don't know just how lucky they are.
Maybe the debate about writer’s block is not so much about what happens when the creative person sits down to create, but the life style he or she lives. I offer this thought based on what I know about William Styron, a native of the area where I've lived for the past forty-five years.
Styron posted a quotation from Gustave Flaubert above the door to his studio. “Be regular and orderly in your life so that you may be violent and original in your work.” Those familiar with Styron’s know he lived a life far removed from regular and orderly, a lifestyle that led to this battle with depression, a situation he later explained in DARKNESS VISIBLE.
When I turned to the task of creative writing, I was fortunate to have the late William Tapply as a tutor. He told me that far more important than learning the craft of creative writing was learning to live the life of a creative writer. He said learning and applying the discipline to do this was a much harder task than learning the craft.
My personal experience has proven the truth of this piece of advice. My “writer’s block” does not come when I am sitting at the keyboard. My on-going battle is learning to change a long-lived life style that is filled with a myriad of things that block not my mind, but the regular and orderly time needed to sit at the keyboard and write.
This is a fantastic post--the best description I've ever seen of the very real phenomenon known as writer's block. Thanks so much for posting this..
I guess my question is WHY DO WE WANT SO BADLY TO BELIEVE IN THIS IDEA? Can you touch "writers block?" Can you move it out of the way? Who put it there? Why does it exist?
I was a newspaper reporter and I never said to my editor, "Sorry. Having writers block today. Get someone else to write the story." No, I wrote the who, what, when, where and why, did it in the pyramid format, plastered the facts on the page and found a way to make it interesting to read. Then I went back and did it the next day for $8 an hour.
Want angst? Find it in some other profession. Writers write. Whether it's a blog, an email, an article for the newspaper or the next bestseller, all it consists of are words on paper. You have to love words to be a writer.
Creative people don't run out of ideas. The well does NOT go dry. We choose to write or we choose to play games on the computer, watch TV, smell the roses, clean behind the refrigerator or read the works of people who actually write. That's not a "block." That's a real decision knowing the consequences.
Maybe it's easier to say "I'm blocked" than admitting "I'm not a serious writer."
Thanks everyone for taking the time to post. I believe there are truths in everyone's remarks here, even those I may seem to disagree with; everyone has his own experiences and as Bo says lifestyle. If we choose to have ten children, that is cause for a lifestyle that might just pull you away from an orderly writing life. I once had an orderly writing life and everyting in it was pulled out from under me. Lost everything in my life that maintained order--all gone, and it screwed with my head, and it became a nightmre most when I realized I would never write again...took me years to be capable of finding the order and writing Final Edge, my comeback book. At least for me it was a major comeback and for that reason alone I love that book. People who don't get knocked off their well oiled tracks are damn lucky, Kevin. In a sense, even those who have never experienced a total crack up and break down, have to be right about this nebulous writers block thing because it is intangible, invisible, a quiet killer. Those same folks can believe in God though he be unseen, invisible, a quiet taker of life. But that's OK. Would not wish a "sighting" of the Grim Reaper of Depression coupled with the artistic mind on my worst enemy. Ever sit in the same chair for thirty days and nights unable to write? If so you have seen Him or It, the phantom the journalists seem never to know.
I pointed to Styron early in this debate which began on DL. What kills me is the historic list of writers who have suffered for their art is denounced while painters who suffered for their art is so easily accepted. Again it all depends...all relative to our experience kind of like those who defend the current state of the publishing industry because they are making good money within that sorry framework while thousands of others are not.
Thanks everyone for taking the time to post. I believe there are truths in everyone's remarks here, even those I may seem to disagree with; everyone has his own experiences and as Bo says lifestyle. If we choose to have ten children, that is cause for a lifestyle that might just pull you away from an orderly writing life. I once had an orderly writing life and everyting in it was pulled out from under me. Lost everything in my life that maintained order--all gone, and it screwed with my head, and it became a nightmre most when I realized I would never write again...took me years to be capable of finding the order and writing Final Edge, my comeback book. At least for me it was a major comeback and for that reason alone I love that book. People who don't get knocked off their well oiled tracks are damn lucky, Kevin. In a sense, even those who have never experienced a total crack up and break down, have to be right about this nebulous writers block thing because it is intangible, invisible, a quiet killer. Those same folks can believe in God though he be unseen, invisible, a quiet taker of life. But that's OK. Would not wish a "sighting" of the Grim Reaper of Depression coupled with the artistic mind on my worst enemy. Ever sit in the same chair for thirty days and nights unable to write? If so you have seen Him or It, the phantom the journalists seem never to know.
I pointed to Styron early in this debate which began on DL. What kills me is the historic list of writers who have suffered for their art is denounced while painters who suffered for their art is so easily accepted. Again it all depends...all relative to our experience kind of like those who defend the current state of the publishing industry because they are making good money within that sorry framework while thousands of others are not.
Thanks everyone for taking the time to post. I believe there are truths in everyone's remarks here, even those I may seem to disagree with; everyone has his own experiences and as Bo says lifestyle. If we choose to have ten children, that is cause for a lifestyle that might just pull you away from an orderly writing life. I once had an orderly writing life and everyting in it was pulled out from under me. Lost everything in my life that maintained order--all gone, and it screwed with my head, and it became a nightmre most when I realized I would never write again...took me years to be capable of finding the order and writing Final Edge, my comeback book. At least for me it was a major comeback and for that reason alone I love that book. People who don't get knocked off their well oiled tracks are damn lucky, Kevin. In a sense, even those who have never experienced a total crack up and break down, have to be right about this nebulous writers block thing because it is intangible, invisible, a quiet killer. Those same folks can believe in God though he be unseen, invisible, a quiet taker of life. But that's OK. Would not wish a "sighting" of the Grim Reaper of Depression coupled with the artistic mind on my worst enemy. Ever sit in the same chair for thirty days and nights unable to write? If so you have seen Him or It, the phantom the journalists seem never to know.
I pointed to Styron early in this debate which began on DL. What kills me is the historic list of writers who have suffered for their art is denounced while painters who suffered for their art is so easily accepted. Again it all depends...all relative to our experience kind of like those who defend the current state of the publishing industry because they are making good money within that sorry framework while thousands of others are not.
There's a very big part of me that loves Sunny's professional approach to the whole thing. I would love to have her whispering in my ear every morning that "It Don't Matter" what else is happening in the world or in MY world. I write, therefore, I am.
And maybe that's the answer.
I've tried keeping journals over the years. From the mundane to the gratitude to my new attempt at a 10-year deal. What I've noticed is that when something earth shattering happens in my life—something emotionally searing—I get plugged for a period of time. I need to process. My journals go blank. There's no amount of professionalism in the Kingdom of Man that I could come forth in those personal formats to write. And maybe because I haven't been under deadline, I had the option to say no to my other writing.
Blocks come in many shapes and sizes. They're made of everthing from shadow to steel. I have fun battling the slippery shadows. But blocks that challenge me, change my every day purpose? Blocks that make me deal with loss? Those are the blocks that take me longer, and if I'm quick enough, take me to me knees.
So sometimes, a block isn't running out of ideas. Sometimes a block is running into a wall. Then it's a matter of evaluation. Of prayer, if that's what gives you strength. And of repositioning for forward movement.
Life goes on. Life, to live fully, requires triumph.
So says Peg, who has maybe had one glass of wine too many tonight.
Peg - I know how you feel but I agree with Bo that we must create order and schedule writing time and try to stick to it religioously and embrace the order. Disorder is what got me for sure. My second marriage was a total disaster and it pretty much destroyed me on so many levels, and one was the theft of my ability to sit down and write.
Look, I was diagnosed as bipolar, got it from my dad. I wrote an entire book while unemployed and in the deepest, darkest depression ever--a fun children's book, no less! After I finally got treatment and was "normal" with meds, I would not write for 3 years. I was afraid I had no talent, it was all the maniac phase.
Then I simply said, "Fine. Now I'm normal and I have the same struggles as other writers. The words aren't coming from some damaged part of my brain chemistry." I wrote a bunch of prize-winning short stories and two novels.
If anyone thinks they've had a bigger mountain to climb or a harder time pulling it together, fine. I just know I looked at the odds against me and said "No way. I'm a writer."
So Peg, I'm here whispering in your ear, "It don't matter." You have all the tools you need. Life can't throw anything at you that you can't throw right back.
Can't belive I'm coming clean after all these years. I'm tired of hiding a disorder I've conquered.
After sixteen novels, at least eight of which threatened either to remain unfinished or to kill me (but all of which were eventually finished), I know that there are times that writing seems impossible. I guess my question is, who ever said it would be easy?
What could be more complicated than writing a novel? Of course, there are going to be times when the very idea of sitting at the keyboard or picking up your pen (or whatever) is absolutely terrifying. And of course, there will be times when you feel as though you've wrung out the very last drop of talent you possessed, if you can persuade yourself that you ever actually possessed any.
That's when you need to write. My rule of thumb is, the less I want to write, the more I need to.
Most of the time, I think writer's block arises when we don't know (or have lost sight of) what we're writing about. I think that we find out what we're writing about by writing about it. If the problem is our characters, I think we find out about our characters by writing about them.
With apologies to all who have been paralyzed with writer's block, I think that either (a) it's part of a much deeper problem, such as clinical depression (Styron, obviously), or (b) it's a result of a lack of commitment to the creative process, which includes turning out lousy work while finding your way toward better work.
Picasso once said, "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." I think a lot of "blocked" writers would rediscover their inspiration if they took their writing seriously enough to pursue it even when it's going atrociously.
And I also believe that every day away from the world of our manuscript makes that world more remote and makes the walls between us and it harder to scale. Here's how anyone can develop writer's block: persuade yourself not to touch the keyboard for one day, then two, then . . . Every day, the manuscript dies a little.
Just sit down and work. For me, to say it again, the less I want to write, the more I need to.
Some inapied and inspirational words from Sunny; I know that such disorders as depression and bipolar are not of interest to those who have not experienced them either in a loved one or in themselves. It takes courage to talk about these matters, courage most people do no have. In my own case, I learned very fast who my friends were and they could be counted on about three fingers. Family saved me. Tim's recipe is a great one and one I have used countless times and it works Peg, believe me. I could not have written as many books as I have without applying myself and I do believe like the accidental inventor of such important things as penicillin...well you have to be in the laboratory and working to discover and uncover and to understand what it is you are seeing and in our case seeing a scene come together as perfectly as we can make it.
I still say artistic blokcs exist and as Picasso aged he too was confronted with the scourge of being unable to work as were countless other artists and writers. I think it is a right brain thing and it does go hand in hand with life's big moment struggles. At the same time, despite it all, I have remained an optimist eternal; it is the only reason I am still writing after all the kicks in the teeth I have endured since my first book sale in 79 - and before publication there were the darkest days of all, fear of never publishing. Until I told myself that I would write whether ever published or not, I could not free myself of that monkey on my back.
Everyone who has left a comment has said something I can use and hang on to. So thanks, Rob, for posting this.
Tim, I love this:it's a result of a lack of commitment to the creative process, which includes turning out lousy work while finding your way toward better work.
It has taken me a long time for me to not only understand I will produce a Shitty First Draft, but to embrace my SFD. To learn that the Delete key is not an affirmation of my failure, but one of the tools I have to make my writing stronger.
And yeah, it's when I don't write that I particularly begin to believe I can't write.
So . . .to discipline, to saying "It Don't Matter", and to the community of writers who make it happen every day.
Thanks!
So glad this helped you Peg. The debate rages on....now at DL about Readers' Block no less...
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Writers Block is every writers dread and fear. What happens when you are stuck. Either a story that won't write itself, new ideas just won't come, or you are just plain frustrated because you know this is not anywhere near your "best work."
On writers block takes a very holistic and pro-active approach to what is going on when creativity won't flow. It delves into the nature of creativity, how it works, etc. It looks at blocked creativity as a powerful message from the creative elements in the mind/personality. As a result- it helps to think of creativity as a vibrant child.. and it is now refusing to cooperate with what you keep demanding of it. Creativity cannot and should not be forced, or it shuts down. this book gives really valuable insights and perspectives that will help any writer who is having trouble writing, and it will improve the writing of those who are not struggling.
Anyone who works in the creative mediums will benefit from understanding these concepts. because, coupled with playing by heart, On writers block- it helps to appreciate and nurture the writing/ creating element and process
"There are 2 must-reads for authors and publishers. this is the first of them. Donaldson studied the language and culture of PLAY. not recreation, not chilling out. PLAY. He found that play has a language that is universal, shared by all children regardless of race, culture, IQ, mental acuity/deficiency; he found that even animals have this language. He also understands that play does NOT set limitations, is NOT a reward and is NOT a bargaining chip.
Anyone who works in the creative mediums will benefit from understanding these concepts. because, coupled with the second book, On writers block- it helps to appreciate and nurture the writing/ creating element and process
Btw-- no idea why, but it would not let me sign in with my google account.
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(Sorry all. Keep catching typos and couldn't find an edit button on my post, so had to delete.)
Hi Rob,
Late coming to the party but happened to notice your article and wanted to add something.
I have a much more simpler and common-sense explanation for writer's block, and the best example of it that you didn't cite lies with Johnny Reznick of The Goo-Goo Dolls.
After their mega-hit Isis from City of Angels, he knew they needed to crank out something that would completely top this hit. His fans was expecting it, and his record company was expecting it.
And that was his mistake.
Writer's Block, no matter what folks call it; lack of ideas, lack of inspiration, fear of failure, can ALL be explained by this one simple precept: If the writer engages his internal editor too soon, he will then psyche himself out. He will then leap to the above mentioned and unfounded conclusions, which is what Johnny did. Instead of allowing himself the right to fail and fail big, he put so much pressure on himself to do better than he did with Iris, that he soon became incapable of even writing a cheque. For six-months this continued, until he finally got to a mental point where he didn't give a flying feck if he failed--he just needed to write another song.
Because he engaged his internal editor too soon in the creative process, he began subconsciously judging and pre-judging each and everything he did as crap.
John Vorhaus, comedy-writer extroardinaire, addresses this in the first three-chapters of The Comic Toolbox. By realising that there is a time and place for that internal editor (much later in the process), you are giving yourself permission to suck government cheeze until it's time to look at your work with that all-important critical eye.
I caught myself going through this during NaNoWriMo. I wasn't even done with the book and I was judging what I'd written as horrible. And the minute I got over myself and just began barfing from my fingers again, my creativity returned and months later after some distance, when I looked back on what I'd created, it really wasn't as bad as I'd thought.
I've never believed writers lose inspiration or ideas. I've always believed, however, that they will begin judging anything they have already created or have yet to create as crap, and this will kill whatever motivation anyone has. Who wants to create something they automatically know is going to suck? We all want to be great at what we do, but the time to think about that is NOT AS you're creating a song, or writing a book, or slapping oil onto a canvas. Get that project out of your head, and THEN go back and tweak it with a critical eye.
It's all tied together. And its inherent reasoning can only be traced back to that internal editor being introduced into the process much too soon. If a "blocked" writer will begin checking his motivations and attitudes toward the work as soon as he senses this "block," he will 100% of the time realise that at some point, his critic was engaged too soon.
I'd suggest picking up Vorhaus' book and going through those exercises to get rid of this self-induced pressure. You won't be sorry you did.
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