Adventures in Writing

I’ve been blocked for over a week now.  I just can’t get anything out.  I know it’s my attitude that’s dragging me down, but I can’t help it.  I’ve tried brainstorming, I’ve searched the net for pics of my characters to get the joices flowing…but nothing.

 It all started when I saw the previews for Lucky You. 

 Hubby called me from down the hall and said “Hey, this is the movie I was telling you about that sounds like your book!”  I don’t watch TV much, so I hadn’t seen it myself.  I sit down and watch the trailer with him.  As my MS comes to life before me, I realize that I got this brilliant idea a year or so too late.  Since then, I haven’t been able to write.  Not a single word.  On that MS or any of my others.

I need to snap out of this funk, but I’m just not sure how.  All of my usual block busters have failed, and I don’t know what else to try.  Maybe writing here will help?  So far it’s not.  I’m just looking pathetic as I struggle to write *something*.  Anything.

I could turn this into a pity party – and I think I have.  Why else would I still be blocked?  I need to bounce back and get my head back into the game.  (Isn’t that a song from the HS Musical?)  Anywho…

Brainstorming has ALWAYS worked before.  Either working with a current MS or brainstorming a whole new idea.  I’ve tried  both and fell flat on my face.  I can’t get the characters to talk to me.  They’re all shrugging and saying “What’s the point?”.  I know really it’s  me doing that, but I’m not sure how to get out of it.  I know I need to.  I can’t get stuck just because ONE of my stories bears a striking similarity to a movie coming out, it makes no sense.  There are no original stories.  It’s the twists we add to them that make them original.

Trouble is, no matter how much I know this, I still can’t snap out of it.

Maybe I need to just force myself to sit down and write.

Even if what I write is destined for the trash (not even good enough for a throw away chapter) at least I’ll be writing.  Who knows, maybe it’ll end up being a story worth looking into, or maybe there will be a character worth salvaging.

As long as I write.