DO YOU EVER FEEL LIKE BEATING YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE WALL...

#1

Man..

I am completely uninspired to write other than to bet better. My mind feels like is has scar tissues and now it's harder to get any feeling to it when it comes to writing.

I just feel like expressing it or something. I dont know.

Thanks everyone for reading my shit for those your read it.

Peace
Billy

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Man, I can totally relate. lol

I'm supposed to be writing a comic book script about war for my brother. He wants to be a comic book artist.

I don't even know where to begin, man. lol

Back when the war in Iraq started, I was saving articles from CNN and e-mailing them to myself. Well, I've decided to start printing those articles. I've got the war movies going; I watched We Were Soldiers the other night. I'm flipping through my books about the war in Iraq.

I'm trying to find inspiration somewhere, but it's just not happening... the key thing is not to force. I gotta stop trying to force it, and just let it come to me. It's hard sometimes, though.

#3

When I was a young guy, I guess you could say I was like Deepak...I would talk to my Muse daily...Man, I could write on the fly...To this day, I keep pen and pad on me...Some of the things I have in The Word, I've written dripping we out of the shower, shit just hits me...I have actually laid eyes on one of my muses, and I've been able to keep it moving ever since...

I am inspired by the female (big surprise) I am inspired by breathing, I am inspired by my Son...My family...An infectious melody I hear on the raido...I write my best work though, when I have exchanged sentences with an angel, and my muse tells me to do great things...And it is far from a sexual thing, its just like a breath of fresh air...A photograph....

Meditation helps...

I sat in a dark room...Alone...Lit a single candle and grounded myself...My thoughts...And I did it until my mind fell silent man, and when I opened my eyes..? I felt reborn...

Kramer, my inspiration for stories always came from creating an awesome character...I was learned at a young age that characters are essential to to the story, and I've always created my characters first...Given them personalities, good traits, flaws...And the stories seemed to write themselves...I'd love to help you pound away at ideas Iron Writer style in The Word man, I'll create a special forum just for it...We can create a shitload of characters, name them, bio them, detail them, and you can use them or not...But it may help you to get your juices flowing...We can create characters, create situational constructs, and birth you an awesome story based on that...

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That'd be fucking awesome, dude.

The greatest character I've ever created is myself. lol It may seem egotistical, but I'm the main character in the novel I'm writing. I love my character because I'm so complex, and I'm not your typical hero. I'm anti-social, I'm rude, I'm surly... yet there's another side to me that is the complete opposite. That side is completely focused on family. Not my folks and my siblings, but my family. It's hard to explain... lol

Anyway... yeah.. creating characters and shit, that'd be awesome.

I definitely know what you're talking about with music... I remember one night I kept playing the same Avril Lavigne song again and again for over an hour, and I got down like 5 pages front and back. It was insane. lol

#5

That sounds like an interesting lil' project (the characters). I would read the stuff and possibly even jump in myself.

Muses - what a wonderful thing but such a rare thing to come by these days for me. Music used to do the thing, but ehh.. not anymore. I need to find more inspirational music I guess. One liners usually get me nowadays but that's rare. /sad.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad.gif" />

I have yet to actually meet a muse of mine or find a tangible muse (other than a cd or a book) that will inspire me everytime or won't be just a at the moment inspiration.

Peace
Billy

#6

Hey Billy, I know what that feels like.

I love music and play the electric guitar so I can jam along to songs, and write my own songs. Since mid-last year I've been on-again off-again writing an album, just for myself. I'll probably put the songs on ACIDplanet, that's about it. I'm not a singer so there won't be any lyrics, even though most of the songs sound like they should have lyrics, since I have verses and choruses etc.

Right now I've been trying to come up with solo ideas. I have a massive stack of musical literature to inspire stuff, and even diversifying my musical tastes- listening to completely different styles of music to come up with ideas. But I just keep writing rhythm parts!
I just can't make a solo! The thing is- all my rhythm parts don't follow some sort of chord progression, mainly because I don't really know chords. I just play power chords, since I listen to rock music. I do have a chart to learn chords, but don't really take much notice of it. Plus I get bored with straight chord progressions, so come up with really cool wicked riffs, but it makes it really hard to solo over. In fact, my rhythm parts are like low-register solos, but I don't wanna just play those things up on the higher strings, they sound too cool on the lower strings.

#7

It might help just to let lose for a while and not write anything. I know I had the same problem and I decided to take a break from it. I get these ideas in my head and I write those ideas down. I cant write a poem on it yet because I'm just not inspired either.

Just two days ago I got an idea to write abouta spiders web and stuff and how in life it symbolises a web of deciet and being entangled in it like a fly in a spiders web. As soon as I started writing on it I knew that poem wouldnt be a good piece at all. I wrote about how a fly was caught in the spiders web in a vast jungle trying to escape.

Said to myself it was such a cliche you know. it just seemed like there were so many poems with the same types of lines with the same spider and the same fly. I knew that I was not going to make anything of it right now but I wrote the idea down. I know sooner or later I would be able to write about it the way I want to. Those one liners that you get ... write them down and I'm sure that sooner or later you too will be able to put those into words.

Every writer or poet puts something of themselves into the characters of the poem or story, most stories are just the in different personalities of one person fighting it out.

A, I really feel honoured man that you thought of me as yourself when you were younger .

#8

That's why I enjoy your work, Deepak...I know what its like totally when a girl gives you such a charge you almost feel compelled to do something...That's why I don't care much for critique, I can feel the energy in a piece...I can understand when a guy says, this piece is a little off beat, help me out, and wants to create a grammatically correct piece...But sometimes..."Damn yall, I fucking love this girl" says more than enough....

So it shall be done my friends...I will create the Iron Writer section as soon as I am done typing this message...I actually can't wait, something about being on a laptop with no damn decent internet makes me want to hone a new skill LoL...The new section can be a place where Deepak can post his spider web idea and we all meditate on it and work something out...We can create exercises, small group style...With all the ass hunters here, we can be assued a good, working enviroment where we can "Iron" them out, and thus forge something awesome...

I have so been away from the word for so long, now is a perfect time to vest in it...Guys can create characters for the hell of it, and if you're writing a story, cool...If you're looking for some character ideas, cool...And if they just sit there, COOL..! It is just writing for the hell of it...I'd be flat foot fucking lying if I said I haven't been inspired by reading a piece one of you guys have written...I learned to write fluently from doing random exercises man...I'd pick the most abstract idea possible, like a fly's wings or something, and pound out an idea...Always helps to have angles, which could be all you need when it comes to keeping it moving...

I have a decent character creation process, but I for certain that it needs tweaking...Add on it, expand on it...Shit, we may even build something quite scholarly...Even though you guys are hurting for ideas and inspiration, you are still smart, you are still intelligent, an this will at least keep the juices going...Sometimes we need to be inspired, sometimes we need to be challenged...

#9

Yeah. I love that idea too Ayhja. It's wonderful. I'mma throw an idea or two in there here and there. (Probably add to it on a daily like the word)

Deepak, I've tried the hwole laying off writing. That route is not for me. My skills weaken and build rust, my mind starts seeing only the straight on picture instead of, as Ayhja says, seeing other angles. But it might be the thing for you.

And I do write down one liners. I have so many word documents and pieces of paper with about 20 lines and none of them have to with eachother. lol

Peace
Billy

#10

QUOTE(Deepak)It might help just to let lose for a while and not write anything. I know I had the same problem and I decided to take a break from it. I get these ideas in my head and I write those ideas down. I cant write a poem on it yet because I'm just not inspired either.

That actually DOES work. I finally actually came up with a decent lick for that song! Okay, it only covers a quarter of the solo section, but it's a start!

I think the whole point of this method, is to let your conscious rest, and let your subconscious get to work. That's how you come up with smackdown brilliant ideas/comedy bits/scientific theories/lyrics/riffs/whatver at 2 in the morning, usually when you're fast asleep, or just pacing along.

In the past I was always coming up with riffs for songs, but I couldn't remember them after a while. The ones I've been coming up with over the last few months I HAVE been able to remember. And the reason why? Those older ideas were shit! (I'd record them, then end up forgetting I recorded them and then forgetting how they were played. Then I'd find them and listen back..)

I suppose you gotta not try so hard. That can be VERY difficult to do though.