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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Everyday Canvas
"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to learn
anything or anyone
that does not bring you alive
is too small for you.
David Whyte
This is my supplementary blog in which I will post entries written for prompts.
November 14, 2014 at 2:22pm November 14, 2014 at 2:22pm
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I really don’t belief there is such a thing as writer’s block. Maybe it is this disbelief that keeps me going. On the other hand, since so many writers complain about it, psychobabble aside, something like it must exist somewhere.
Still, you might ask if I have ever been blocked. I can’t say I haven’t been blocked at all, and I can’t say I am always bright-eyed and bushy-tailed while I am writing, either. There are times, when I stop finding the work at hand to have come to a total shut-off, which only points to the fact that the shut-off is only for that specific piece. There are times when I am just plain tired and need some physical action. There are also times when either the arthritis in my fingers is acting up or my eyes are getting cloudy. Rather than worsening my aging woes, I stop then.
If I am feeling all right, aging-wise, and the piece I’m slaving over is going nowhere, then I read something, play hangman or mahjong for a few minutes by myself, or go do something else totally different, like housework.
A short while later, not more than a couple of hours, I come back to write in a different area. For example, if the piece that didn’t go anywhere is fiction, I write a non-fiction piece, poetry, a haphazard character sketch to add to a list of characters waiting for their turn to find a role, or just anything. Sometimes, instead of writing for myself, I do a review or two. Also, I love to read. Since I have lots of books in queue waiting for me in my Kindles, this becomes the easiest thing to do, easiest on my gray matter and easiest on my mood.
There are pieces I started that never found their completion, and there are those whose endings I am not happy with, but I leave them alone for some time. If I want to start a new piece, I look at photos and pictures. I guess, I am a visual person to be inspired by images on screen or in print. Not so with music, though.
Unlike some people who can read or write to music, my verbal skills come to a complete halt when some music I love is playing. Music has its own domain in my soul like an emperor and overrules what images do where my writing is concerned. Listening to music usually turns to an almost out-of-body experience, something like meditation with amazement and adoration added to it. In other words, I become a different person and get totally lost in music to do anything else.
To sum up, if I am not accepting that writer’s block exists for me, I am not negating its existence for others either. If writer’s block means the end to inventing something new in writing, it doesn’t necessarily mean it is the end of life or the end to inventing new avenues where creating is concerned. I believe we just need to take what is handed to us and make the best of it, like making lemonade from sour lemons or discovering the brightest black light in our own shadows.
In the hope that it may help those who think they may have been blocked in some way, here is a link about what some famous writers say on overcoming Writer’s Block.
http://flavorwire.com/343207/13-famous-writers-on-overcoming-writers-block
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Prompt:
Everyone has their method of madness to overcome writer's block especially those of you doing NANO, what's your secret?
I hear people talking about morning pages, or writing about the goals for the day. Then I hear other people talk about taking notes ahead of time for their writing. Do you do silly writing games like word clusters or word associations? Do you look at pictures? Listen to specific music. Or do you just force yourself and hope for the best.
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