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Post by Amaranth on Oct 10, 2009 7:59:03 GMT -5
I can't draw to save my life, but writing isn't a problem. I can always just just erase it and try again. Except for my poetry which for some reason I do in pen. I might consider posting a poem or two at some point in time while disregarding the fact the lot of them are nonsense. I almost always write in pen. Which is why my notebooks all look messy as Hell. I have a ton scratched out, notes in the margins, etc. That and my chicken scratch looks like a 9 year old.
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Post by spaniel on Oct 10, 2009 11:35:26 GMT -5
OK, this writer's block is really getting to me, especially when my best friend is producing at least one beautiful drawing every day.
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Post by Spong Habsburg on Oct 18, 2009 9:53:45 GMT -5
I can't draw folds/tension marks in clothing.
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Post by synchronistic on Oct 18, 2009 10:54:49 GMT -5
OK, this writer's block is really getting to me, especially when my best friend is producing at least one beautiful drawing every day. I feel your pain, i have had writers block for the past 5 years I used to write, and write, and write, now nothing i sit down and maybe get a paragraph before my brain goes durrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Sigh, I have so many ideas too. Hopefully it has broken though i just wrote 2 pages, woot! At least it is an improvement.
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Post by John E on Oct 18, 2009 11:33:21 GMT -5
I can't draw folds/tension marks in clothing. Drapery is hard, especially when you're working from imagination. I have trouble with that too, but it's getting better.
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Post by Caitshidhe on Oct 18, 2009 12:27:29 GMT -5
I can draw fairly decent draping, but I can't do tension to save my life. *frustration*
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Post by RavynousHunter on Oct 18, 2009 20:03:03 GMT -5
I can work while unmedicated...but when I'm medicated, I can work like a bastard.
If this public option thing goes through...maybe I'll finally be able to do what I love for more than an hour without being distracted by shiny things.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Oct 18, 2009 23:21:42 GMT -5
Sweet shit, I'm the slowest editor ever. I'm not sure when I'll get done with Ch. 2, let alone the new stuff.
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Post by malendras on Oct 23, 2009 17:53:37 GMT -5
Poetry is kicking my ass. A segment of my Creative Writing class is on poetry - we're long past that, but I still have to have a poem in my portfolio, and DAMN I really can't write poetry. At all. I've tried many times, and failed on all but one. In the seventh grade, a limerick about me drinking an entire keg and breaking my leg. Since then, jack shit.
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Post by Admiral Lithp on Oct 23, 2009 19:03:50 GMT -5
Yeah, I hate poetry too. I'll have to do it twice this year: Next unit in English, & about 3rd quarter in Creative Writing.
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Oct 24, 2009 2:12:56 GMT -5
I'm rather impressed at the poetry I write. I can't ryhme for shit for the most part, they make no damn sense, and they're fucked up.
Hell, it might not even be poetry just sentences that have no business being together.
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Post by terri on Oct 24, 2009 12:33:15 GMT -5
My frustration is my comic. (See my earlier thread in this forum regarding it.) That is, trying to perpetuate it. Coming up with ideas, finding the time to draw it, and just drawing it. A friend I recently dated (PhD in music) did not like the story and suggested that I instead adapt "Romeo and Juliet" and put it in a gay milieu. I always believed that plagiarism is theft, and I'm sure it's been done.
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Post by CtraK on Nov 8, 2009 13:52:31 GMT -5
Re: all of the above. 1. Ain't no law saying you can't have a three-page chapter, so long as the protagonists don't solve half the issues during that time and you're intending to chisel a doorstopper. Also, there's always the option of merging chapters. Sorry if that sounds a bit obvious. 2. I can always suggest yWriter, which if nothing else manages to repeatedly point out wordcounts for scenes, chapters and the whole shebang and hence point out how little you've done (in my case, a 1,026 word prologue for something that may run into six figures). Re: me. Is there some magic free software on the Internet that doubles or quadruples RAM or allows dialup Internet to turn into broadband? No on both counts? OK.
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Post by John E on Nov 8, 2009 15:48:42 GMT -5
1. Ain't no law saying you can't have a three-page chapter, I just finished a book that had a TWO LINE chapter. And it was great! (Both the chapter and the book as a whole)
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Post by maskdt on Dec 1, 2009 14:36:00 GMT -5
If I might add my two cents?
For writing, it might help to just write up a bunch of nonsense for a while. Sure, it'll be crap, but it can help to get your brain going again.
For drawing, if you're having a hell of a time getting something to look right, looking at good photos of the real thing and doing a few quick studies of it can make all the difference. If you're stuck on the whole "figuring out what to draw" bit, try doodling for a little bit. Like writing, it'll probably be crap, but it can help to get things going again.
And terri, I can completely relate. It took me forever to settle on working with just one comic idea at a time, and I went through a few before finding one that's been working pretty well for me. Persistence is the key.
One suggestion I heard for people who are absolutely stuck on getting an idea down: try it in a different medium.
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