Getting Out of a Creative Rut
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
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Ernest Hemingway once said that the thing that most frightened him in the world was a blank sheet of paper-and he wasn't exactly known for cowardice. Anyone who's experienced a creative dry spell knows how frustrating it can be to sit in front of a blank sheet of paper or a lump of clay or a blinking computer screen and do... nothing. That's OK. This week on WellCast, we go a little into the science behind that creative rut, and get you out of the gate rearing up for your next project with three tips to unclogging those mental pipes.
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Science fiction author Issac Asimov once wrote an article called 'The Eureka Phenomenon. It starts out - "In the old days, when I was writing a great deal of fiction, there would come, once in a while, moments when I was stymied. Suddenly, I would find I had written myself into a hole and could see no way out. To take care of that, I developed a technique which invariably worked.
It was simply this-I went to the movies. Not just any movie. I had to pick a movie which was loaded with action but which made no demands on the intellect. As I watched, I did my best to avoid any conscious thinking concerning my problem, and when I came out of the movie I knew exactly what I would have to do to put the story back on the track. It never failed. In fact, when I was working on my doctoral dissertation, too many years ago, I suddenly came across a flaw in my logic that I had not noticed before and that knocked out everything I had done.
In utter panic, I made my way to a Bob Hope movie-and came out with the necessary change in point of view. It is my belief, you see, that thinking is a double phenomenon like breathing. You can control breathing by deliberate voluntary action: you can breathe deeply and quickly, or you can hold your breath altogether, regardless of the body's needs at the time.
This, however, doesn't work well for very long. Your chest muscles grow tired, your body clamors for more oxygen, or less, and you relax. The automatic involuntary control of breathing takes over, adjusts it to the body's needs, and unless you have some respiratory disorder, you can forget about the whole thing. Well, you can think by deliberate voluntary action, too, and I don't think it is much more efficient on the whole than voluntary breath control is.
You can deliberately force your mind through channels of deductions and associations in search of a solution to some problem and before long you have dug mental furrows for yourself and find yourself circling round and round the same limited pathways. If those pathways yield no solution, no amount of further conscious thought will help. On the other hand, if you let go, then the thinking process comes under automatic involuntary control and is more apt to take new pathways and make erratic associations you would not think of consciously. The solution will then come while you think you are not thinking".
When im stuck on a blog piece, I start drawing cows with my left hand (im right handed) as it takes so much concentration to do it that It clears my head of the other subject.
This is so wonderful. As a writer, I thank you from the bottom of my heart!
I'm a Creative Writing major, and one thing professors always tell us is to have more than one project in different styles of writing. That way, if you get stuck on a fictional short story, you can move to a short memoir essay or a poem or a lyric essay. Just something that isn't the project you're stuck on. Often times, when I'm working on something other than my primary project, I get ideas about how to continue. :)
Forgetting it and forcing myself to fail are how I get out of writers' block and I didn't even know that's how I do it til I watched this. It's like, I either put what I'm trying to write off til what I'm trying to write comes back to me, or I put it off to the side and try to write something I'm not good at writing instead.
OMG that three steps correspondingly are exactly what I do when I get into writing blocks, painting blocks and songwriting block!!
What about how to deal with parents? ... Like when they just get on your nerves, or don't tell you about things they should have or when they make stupid decisions
OMG! The school videos are life savers!!! Thank you!!!!
Oh snap i went to Ernest Hemmingway's house in key west,Florida.Tour guide totally stated that quote,but i was more interested in the extra toed cats to really notice. Either way thanks for the help!
These videos are very good. You are good at this so keep it up!
Wow Welcast, this has been the only epasode that i've missed while keeping up with your show, and right before i was going to message you about "How to get into a Creative Mood", this pops up while looking throw your channel. You sure know how to suprise me more and more every time i look at your show with your phycic abilities O-O
Any ways WellCast, thanks for the edvice. Always a big help. Now back to my creative writing fic! *runs off, with a spring in my step, and a smile on my face*
~Victor
You know what. I'm going to try this this weekend. Tomorrow I won't even think of story lines or dialogue and on Saturday I'll try to write some poems or a romance or anything that doesn't involve mythology or action.
This advice really helped.
Thanks : 3
This actually really worked for me ..Thanks a lot !
Amazing show.. I love it... :)
This is really helpful! Thanks! :D
Listening to music helps as well.
great video
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please please PLEASE give me these studies you speak of!
It would be most enriching and lovelylinlyling!
Volume Limiters are your friend. Great video.
Just a tip I knew about that might help you guys, so I thought I'd share.
Studies have actually shown that you're more creative when you're tired.
Just wrote two of my most amazing songs, and it's, like, 12:30 in the morning.
Hope that helps anyone :)
so true. also, when i'm in the washroom/shower i tend to be more creative and have deep thoughts for some reason
Uuuuhh... you are really good.. well done...I like your videos :D
I suggest a video (from a friend) how to stop an argument/ fight without getting hurt.
May u please do a video about ADHD and how to control it?
Well, I just want to say that truly is great for you. I have a lot of imagination too, but sometimes I get into a rut. Not saying this will happen to you, but it might happen, so just be prepared. :)
How can I do it at school
86%
I am creating my own novel and it super long but I don't know how to continue :/
I find this completely worth trying, but I mostly have this in schools. Daily language drills and nonstop strict rules of how to do it, put me under incredible pressure. My family calls me the "artsy" one, drawing anime, playing violin and who is pretty decent on writing, this occurs all the time. But my teacher looks directly at me to have the ideas. Its not only hard, but frustrating and usually, I only have the period to do it. Any help?
Stilll haave no idea for my next story(love stories are trending on wattpad and I write horror, I USED to wwrite love stories and NOW I CANT FIND THE RIIGHT PLOT!)
Uhm.. I have it the other way around.. seriously. What you described in the first 1:50 is how I feel at almost any given time.
that sounds like a normal day to me
it means Laugh Out Loud :o
What if you've got PATs and can't get out of your seat (not even to pee) and you've got two hours to write a short story based on a given photo and a newspaper article?...
writing songs ain't hard to me i write what i feel and what words tell it : )
Goodstuff
sometimes i think up something beautiful in my head, its sounds beautiful in my head but when i try to put it on paper the words just sounds super cheesy
Sometimes the most beautiful things are like a cheese shop in France with a French man spouting something like 'you are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen'.
yeah, i suppose so.
It doesn't matter how big you're imagination is you will at some point be stumped it happens to everyone
CandyCorn wants to know what it's about.
Quadra F. The last F is the one we get on our paper D:
Hemingwaits
Anybody having problems with creativity due to depression? Depression makes some people MORE creative, but not me... :( advice?
find a band to listen that has a really cool music video. I recommend a black veil brides music video, because they have a lot of theatricality that could potentially get your creativeness going and also help you out of depression by making you feel like you aren't alone and that there will always be someone there for you. Good luck, and let me know how well it worked.
goforth115 BVB FTW, brother!
I don't have depression, but I love going to the dark side when I'm writing. It just comes naturally, no matter how happy I am. And I love metal music. \m/
depression actually increases my creation
LOL i love it
Oh I'm sorry! I can't reply directly I'm on mobile. It's about a girl who somehow transports to a world and tries to get out with all these plot twists and stuff :) I just got the idea one night when I could sleep and it just got bigger and bigger and I'm not even halfway through the story xD
This never happens to me. I'm one of the lucky few who can always keep going.
famous last words
thumbs up if you're a musician and this worked for you in composing a song! =)
You talk about sleep, time management, and now getting out of a creative rut.
It's like you /know/ I'm planning on doing NaNoWriMo.
Simply Brilliant. Thanks. #SecretsSelfmadeBillionaires
This channel had so much potential, but decided to just re-upload.
Man, I loved their videos.
+cksonja
WHAT!?
Google, how dare you.
triple F plan....I hope that's not the grade one would get using this :)
Step 2 does not work when you don't have any creative ideas for your exam :P
Mess up.
My boss will kill me.
Lol, I doubt he would kill a beauty such as yourself.
SonyXLR smooth
Here are another few F's... Fail Faster!
:)
NaNoWriMo!!!1 :D This is perfect.
fff...
She answered; I thought I'd let you know.