Writers block : What is that?
A totally different article this time enough
You surely know that i am a amateur blogger, with more particulary writing technical and radio articles .
What you dont know is that since last year (mid 14 ) i have started to write books starting from tales . Some samples of this were posted in my blog page under the tag zliangas.blostpot.com/bullshit These are my first endeavors in fiction and versions of tales It is a subpage which was not so much advertised so far in the social media .
All these ideas came after
reading a Malay book called "Malay tales revised and retold " by
Daphne Lee a Chinese writer from Malaysia . This book inspired me to modify and play with older stories in a more contemporary way. For example I wrote the 'red riding hood' into a story of a
girl who has two unlucky occasions while on her road to her aunt's house (someone stolen her bag for example ) and took her
aunt into a hospital .Since then i have shown more interest in making
new stories some bad some good with the way later to compile them into
a book. ON 2014 i have made about 10 stories, written in both Greek
and English separately and started a "series of series" of stories
under a main title which is still in the process. Small part of it has been writen in English, It iwll be disclosed as time, conditions and mood
permits.
On 2014 I had devised only 20 stories in total for the
whole year starting from April . In 2015 the stories raised to 60 in
just two months ! Since Sept 15 the time I started typing these
stories the newer stories since then became lengthier and lengthier
from condensed 15 pages and up. There are some but few exemptions with
stories less than 10 pages.
So this is true: writing makes more writing !
Doing
this i also had sometimes writer's block but i very easily overcame it
in less than one day or even few hours, Here is on how i did it. I
mention here also some hints of how i was more inspired with new
ideas /stories :
1.Listening to the music . Most of you
here know that my main interest is in Malay music and heavy /thrash
metal . On 2014 most ideas were inspired by listening to the beauty
of the 'westernized' Malay music from my top station RTM Sarawak in shortwaves or 9835 kHz in the country house of Litohoron a rural place , 1.5 km fasr from the village that's free of local noise. Best times are late nights when i was in bed as the signal
is very good (after 10 pm local time till circa 2 am ) .
2.
Walking and or jogging. Since I am quite fat (85 kg and 160 cm tall ) i preferred walking 20-30 minutes outside the house , enough time to
create new ideas and or resolve solutions to some of these stories.
3.
Starting to write a new story project. As the above two techniques
helped me to produce many more ideas and stories than i could afford
writing in paper same time , and some times was blocked writing older stories ,I
preferred to keep in mind the outstanding stories (these in the waiting )
with just a plot or into full analysis. My MP3- voice recorder is a
very important instrument to keep these ideas in its memory for later noticing in paper same or next day .
4. Inspired by a book , news or movie
or personal reality. Many times after reading a book or watching a
movie or even hearing the news , inspired me to write my own version
or adaptation of that story .
This applies mostly to the other book called here as 'the series of series'.
Notice that this idea especially for news or movie seems not so widely supportred by other authors who prefer mostly 'stealing' stories of others in a way to write their own.
5.Writing the ideas in a mp3 as startup . I have at fist recorded these ideas into my mp3 for later noticing in paper.
For
safety reasons i have not used my tablet in the countryhouse . As
safety i mean to preserve it from deliberate attacks from my very
nervous daughter. She sometimes ask me to use my tablet to play wih the
physical keyboard by writing her name.. My father is also keen against
computers and tablets.He really hates them feeling that computers and
new technology destroys humanity.
This is just one sample of the ideas that i support in a mainly basis.
My sources of mind blockade are :
-Family and parent and in-law demands . This can lead me to lose more than half day for others requirements and forget some ideas .
-Requirements to read unrelated books for personal interests (ie psychology books , technical and others unrelated to fiction ) In contrast , reading fiction/ fantasy books as from Steve king could help me to either find a nice idea or just use his way of writing (?)
-Very lengthy stories in detail ! My latest stories with some detail can extend to 50 or more pages , dialogues are also included in them . Most of my earlier stories are not bigger /lengthier than 10 pages. The last story for the "series of series" i write now exceeds for sure the 70and seems to grow up !.
What you dont know is that since last year (mid 14 ) i have started to write books starting from tales . Some samples of this were posted in my blog page under the tag zliangas.blostpot.com/bullshit These are my first endeavors in fiction and versions of tales It is a subpage which was not so much advertised so far in the social media .
So this is true: writing makes more writing !
This applies mostly to the other book called here as 'the series of series'.
Notice that this idea especially for news or movie seems not so widely supportred by other authors who prefer mostly 'stealing' stories of others in a way to write their own.
-Family and parent and in-law demands . This can lead me to lose more than half day for others requirements and forget some ideas .
-Requirements to read unrelated books for personal interests (ie psychology books , technical and others unrelated to fiction ) In contrast , reading fiction/ fantasy books as from Steve king could help me to either find a nice idea or just use his way of writing (?)
-Very lengthy stories in detail ! My latest stories with some detail can extend to 50 or more pages , dialogues are also included in them . Most of my earlier stories are not bigger /lengthier than 10 pages. The last story for the "series of series" i write now exceeds for sure the 70and seems to grow up !.
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