On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 15:33:03 +0000, Ally Kerr wrote:
Writers who don't write for a living get blocked,
because they can afford to - it doesn't matter if
they write or not. Writers who do it to put food
on the table probably don't have the luxury of anything
so artistic. I bet Dickens never said "I'm blocked".
You don't hear about road-mender's block or doctor's
block either; everyone at some stage gets fed up with
their job but most folk just get on with it.
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i don't in any way agree with you - or with some of the other stuff that has
been written about writers block in this thread. it doesn't matter if you
write for a living or not, writers block can affect every writer. i have
read about many writers who suffered writers block who wrote for a living,
poe is one that i know of. same as with painters. art is no different than
any other job someone takes, and many people have stressed out at jobs like
accounting, ceo's, doctors, plumbers, and constructors. poetry is no higher
than these professions. and as for those artists who write or paint through
their 'blocks', sometimes they will come out with a masterpiece - and other
times they will come out with some really bad stuff. and writers block is no
'luxury', and anyone who has had it will agree to that.
just wait until something happens in your life that will disrupt everything
that you have come to comprehend. a divorce, the death of a child, too much
outside work to were you leave your writing for too long and you have been
thrown out of sync with it, or even something as little as a few bad days.
sometimes people can write through that, like an older thread that we were
talking about ('must artists suffer'), but some can not write through it.
your thoughts become too simple and the only thing you can think of, the
only words you can write, the only words you can hear is 'she is dead'. not
much of a poem in that now is there? or your thoughts are way too complex to
even begin to know where to start, let alone have actual words form into
mind so that they can be written down and used to convey your pain.
writers block is no simple luxury to be had, it's not like it some kind of
vacation you take to get away from all thats bothering you or to even give
your poor fingers a rest.
-annie
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I was put on this earth to accomplish a certian number of things. Right now
I'm so far behind I'll never die.
Calvin & Hobbes
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