neil kleid
09-29-2005, 08:17 AM
http://www.scrypticstudios.com/index.php/articles/623
"More and more these days, I find myself in the company of writers. Whether at the bar, at a convention or chatting on the internet, my circle includes poets, novelists, screenwriters, comic book scribes and journalists. Everyone I know is working on a book, a play, a movie, a pilot or a dirty limerick. And often, I hear of these mad, insane beast … this horrible, terrible affliction that causes these would-be Whitmans and struggling Salingers to tear their hair and kick their cats with frustration.
“Writer’s Block.
“That invisible wall and inaccessible window preventing you from plucking literary pearls from the hoard of Ideaspace. The white static filling your head, stopping you from moving onto a third act, crafting a particularly tricky piece of dialogue or plotting an eight page story. An easy to use, common to say reason for not being able to just sit down and write the damn thing.
“But does it exist?”
This week’s BIG POND is live at Scryptic Studios, and in it I am joined by writers Joshua Hale (ELKS RUN) Fialkov and Ed (The Low Road) Cunard. Swing by and read about why you should just shut up and get on with it.
BIG POND: The Blockosphere. Number fifteen a series of collaborative columns at Scryptic Studios.
"More and more these days, I find myself in the company of writers. Whether at the bar, at a convention or chatting on the internet, my circle includes poets, novelists, screenwriters, comic book scribes and journalists. Everyone I know is working on a book, a play, a movie, a pilot or a dirty limerick. And often, I hear of these mad, insane beast … this horrible, terrible affliction that causes these would-be Whitmans and struggling Salingers to tear their hair and kick their cats with frustration.
“Writer’s Block.
“That invisible wall and inaccessible window preventing you from plucking literary pearls from the hoard of Ideaspace. The white static filling your head, stopping you from moving onto a third act, crafting a particularly tricky piece of dialogue or plotting an eight page story. An easy to use, common to say reason for not being able to just sit down and write the damn thing.
“But does it exist?”
This week’s BIG POND is live at Scryptic Studios, and in it I am joined by writers Joshua Hale (ELKS RUN) Fialkov and Ed (The Low Road) Cunard. Swing by and read about why you should just shut up and get on with it.
BIG POND: The Blockosphere. Number fifteen a series of collaborative columns at Scryptic Studios.