…I am openly admitting to having a TERRIBLE case of writer’s block. I’ve been on the road for the past year and have been deeply inspired by the experiences. Yet, I have nothing.
Musically: I am without my guitar for the summer (my main writing tool) and also sans Maschine. Point & Click just isn’t working for me. I was humming out melodies on my voice memo’s on my i5 but guess what? That got jacked in Barcelona
Written Word: By no means are my written skills that of my musical skills, but again I have so much to write about but nothing comes out. I find myself spending HOURS staring at a blank Pages file to no avail.
Note: Now some people may agree or disagree but I’m a strong advocate of “Liquid Creative Lubricant”. This has helped none.
So what I’m trying to say/ask is just drop a line in the thread or a short story about something…ANYTHING. A joke, quote, some new interesting music whatever.
Otherwise, I say do your best to not stress or think about it. All artists go through these phases, and they ALWAYS go away in time when you least expect. If you’ve tried forcing it for a couple weeks (or even months) and it still isn’t working, stop. Just take care of other things in your life so that when you DO get on a roll again, all the BS is taken care of and you can chase that muse 100%.
BTW, I also find that when I’m musically dry on ideas, I’m also struggling with writing ideas.
Definitely for me, I can be up at 5:00 with a cup of coffee and good ideas. Never really been a night own when it came to creativity, that was party time.
I used to be up at 6am everyday, work on some tunes for a couple hours, then get some writing done. read the paper and be at work for 12pm. It’s funny how you mentioned writing musically correlates to “writing.” Until now I didn’t realize that. I always figured they played off of each other but now it really clicks.
Usually when working on a song I think “Where does it fit in a movie? What scene is unfolding?” This is what led me to writing. I’d write the scene or passage out and then a day later I had the music.
Oh well. This is going to be a busy work week, hopefully by the weekend I’ll be nice and “recharged”
personally I’m a sucker for six shots of espresso, a joint, and just focusing on different disciplines - if i can’t write just spend a day sampling or programming synths, editing jam sessions down to usable loops
Man, I live in BCN xD I know that if you’re a strenger that is not caring ALL THE TIME of his/her stuff, it’s pretty easy to get robbed in the city centrum. The city is cool, but there’s too much thievery.
My contribution to your problem is this: loose yourself in your city. discover new places. meet people you hadn’t seen before. find a new way home. DON’T HAVE A PLAN AND LET THINGS FLOW. better if you run with some inspirational music on your ipod after a saturday afternoon on the streets everything seems much more clear to me, it gives me new ideas to write and produce about and gives me another point of view of the life. kinda inspiring, kinda majestic, kinda epic, kinda whatever. that’s my advice, I hope I could help you!
The last track I finished (not including work project) was a few months over a year ago where I just felt totally drained. I have a few things to tell/translate so I’m back is business as soon as I get my new kit next week.
after a saturday afternoon on the streets everything seems much more clear to me, it gives me new ideas to write and produce about and gives me another point of view of the life. kinda inspiring, kinda majestic, kinda epic, kinda whatever. that’s my advice, I hope I could help you!