Wouldn’t that be awesome? Just keep a can by your desk, and spray before and after any writing sessions. And automatically writer’s block doesn’t block this writer!
One can dream 🙂
I hope I don’t jinx myself by writing this tip, but I feel that it is necessary 🙂
Anyone who writes knows that Writer’s Block is the leading cause for agony among writers.
It may come in the form of a creativity flow drought, or maybe a content famine, in which you write five words when you need five hundred.
Whatever your problem, I have found the best cure to be James Scott Bell’s L.O.C.K. System to be the most effective.
L is for Lead. Know who your lead character is, his background and whatnot.
O is for Objective. Know what your Lead wants. What can he not live with out?
C is for Confrontation. Know who is the Lead’s biggest opponent. Who/what can stop him from getting his objective?
K is Knockout ending. Keep your eye on the prize, when your writing it helps to have a goal.
These elements are useful in the plotting stage (if you have one 🙂 and or in the Writer’s Block stage.
If you are ever stuck in your story, you can look at your L.O.C.K. elements, and maybe you’ll find your a little off track. Maybe you’ll see you need to add an element.
Whatever your story, or your dilemma, I have found this system to work the best.
Ben! Again, I love this story. It was a good marketing strategy to post it to a site full of writers 🙂
But I found a slight grammar mistake I thought you’d like to catch.
When the Maiden is saying she should shoot a rifle to give Hero some cover, she says, “shoot rifle” rather than the obviously correct version.
I’m pretty darn sure you know how to fix that 😛