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That is so gross...and yet, so accurate.Writing is like pooping. You can sit there all you want but if you don't have anything inside you, there's no point trying to push it out.
I don't think it's that weird, but I walk in the wooded trails in the park and talk out loud as my characters.
I DO THE SAME THING. I talk to them. It makes me feel a little bananas. But it helps.
I also find myself mumbling to my characters when I'm drawing them. I'm sure I look cuckoo to my classmates.
I am extremely lucky where I live, there is a river one side and a lake the other and I can cross the river to a beautiful wooded island which has a few small channels and ponds that form a fish hatchery. The wildlife is amazing, wandering round the island and watching a couple of kingfishers darting fast and low along one of the overhung streams is simply awesome and it seems to stretch my brain in just the right way.
The few times I've struggled, a long walk will take care of it. I'm lucky enough to have nothing but about 20 miles of deep forest between my home and Mt. St. Helens. Not even neighbors. A long walk through chest deep ferns under the tall fir trees some two or three hundred feet tall will normally take care of things. If I exhaust myself in a 12-15 mile hike through this difficult terrain, the answer has come to me 100% of the time.Another big fan of walking here!
I am extremely lucky where I live, there is a river one side and a lake the other and I can cross the river to a beautiful wooded island which has a few small channels and ponds that form a fish hatchery. The wildlife is amazing, wandering round the island and watching a couple of kingfishers darting fast and low along one of the overhung streams is simply awesome and it seems to stretch my brain in just the right way.
After three years of mostly not writing, only an occasional thought entered into the thought list, I bought a typewriter last week and have been back in the craft doing more and having fun at it than in years. Some of it is knocking out a page of type rebuilding the typing muscles, it is a manual machine. Now that I can pound out a page without stopping, I am writing basics such as scenes and character bio's on it. I can scan the page and import it into ywriter. Groovy (I have been doing a lot of 60's review for a character). Full pages for the novels are next.