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Anything i/we can help with?
i don't know. sometimes i can be very perfectionistic and expect great things from my writing and then when i feel like i can't meet those expectations then boom, my limbic system takes over and yells "DO NOT WRITE, OR YOU WILL FAIL MISERABLY IN MEETING THOSE HIGH EXPECTATIONS" and so i stop writing
recently, i read on an author's website that the brain has two areas that deal with writing. The limbic system/reptilian brain/subconscious brain, and the conscious brain. Both deal with a writing problem like high expectations. The subconscious brain is the one that prevents you from writing and causes writer's block (by going, "oh snap, those are very high expectations, you can't meet them, so don't write or you'll fail miserably"). The trick, according to this author, is not to engage the problem (like high expectations) with your subconscious brain but with your conscious brain, instead.
how he states on doing that is a little fuzzy.
Writer's block as of late has eluded me. The key to defeating it, is not caring. Just write at first, whatever comes to mind. Make something comprehensible out of it later. That and music, exquisite music that tells the story you are writing through it's notes and ques.
Also be sure to have pants on while writing, it may be a superstition of my. But writing pants-less is unthinkable.
i'm afraid i cannot "not care" about my writing. but i did read in a book about writer's block that in order to overcome it -- you should stop being perfectionistic and stop caring about meeting extremely high expectations, but... there's a difference between perfectionism and normal high expectations. I think i can stop being perfectionistic, but as for ordinary high expectations, i don't think i can stop myself from expecting that. The way i think of it: When you're writing a book or any piece of fiction, that stuff you're making is your baby. it's natural to care a lot about it and have
normal high expectations...
so i think you have to somehow realize that you do have high expectations and, yet at the same time, continue pumping those words out... somehow
i just don't know how right now
