Thread: Writer's Block

Well maybe if you like writing fantasy or something because... well... frankly, dreams are really just imagination. So I would say yes, but idk if maybe anyone else on the forums has experience in something like this.

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let's just say I do manage to get lucid sometime in this lifetime (which I'm doubting)[/b]

I think that 90% of being able to lucid dream is simply believing that you can. As long as you doubt yourself, you'll just make it that much harder. I know it's hard to have confidence in doing something that you've never experienced, and can't really adequately be described by someone else, but if you want to achieve it, believe it.

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To me, the biggest advantage is just being able to live out fantasies, such as being able to fly like a bird (or Superman, if you prefer). I don't know if you could find a way to help your writer's block, but I think it's possible. Perhaps by talking to your DCs and asking them for story ideas?

I am a surrealist writer, and that is one of the reasons I am trying to get way into lucid dreaming. Lucid dreams can provide major inspiration, and they are universes of fascinating surrealism. Non-lucid dreaming is also a major inspiration for writing, particularly surrealism. In my writing journal, a lot of my ideas start out with "the dream I had about..." One of the things that can really help you get into lucid dreaming is keeping a dream journal. The more you recollect and contemplate on the dream world, the greater your chances of recognizing it when you are there and the greater the chances of being obsessed with it enough to be on the look out for it in your subconscious. Also, the dream journal itself can be an excellent source of inspiration.

For overcoming writer's block, I also suggest sitting by yourself in interesting environments like the beach, the forest (I am not a fan of the forest in the summer... tics, mosquitoes, snakes, etc.), river banks, the middle of lakes, and the desert and thinking for hours about life, the universe, the nature of reality, profound past experiences, etc. Sitting in the dark with a candle lit is another way to do it. Maybe you should try meditating in such environments so you can relax and expand your mind and not get too anxiously desparate for ideas. Going for long rides in the country is another good thing to do. Think about the most interesting stuff as well as the most emotional stuff that has ever happened to you. There is a great deal you can find to write about when you mentally get way into those things. Socratically philosophizing about ideas and issues can lead to great literary inventions. I'd say you should try all of those things and combinations of them, and you'll find new avenues.

Dear Indianinks,

This sounds like a job for the Wise Old Man Archetype. You need to picture him with a pipe and a flannel jacket, with those patches on the elbows. When you find him, simply ask him if he knows of an odd plot that has come due for a popular re-spin.

they say that Richard Bach was given the idea for "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" in a dream... not a very original book -- turning Jesus into a bird that thrives on garbage -- but it hit the public nerve just right, and was a great bestseller.

Of course, I'm not proposing that you 'sell out' and go commercial; however, it only take one huge commercial success so that you can be liberated enough from financial concerns so that you can subsequentally write to the highest and most incomprehensible of standards, oblivious to the Best Sellers List.

Originally posted by Leo Volont
they say that Richard Bach was given the idea for \"Jonathan Livingston Seagull\" in a dream... not a very original book

True Leo, so true, however I do find his books entertaining. I don't think anything he has written can be considered truly original. They all seem to be to just be New Age wrappings of older doctrines.

I was shocked and heartbroken to learn that he and his "soulmate" had divorced. Guess it wasn't his soulmate afterall, eh?

Hey Indianinks,

For your writer's block, I can recommend a book that I hear a lot of artists own (including myself) -- it's called "The Artist's Way"

Some of the techniques parallel that of the techniques used on this site for lucid dreaming (like journaling things)

Anyway, I should go back and read it myself - being that I'm in a MAJOR lucid dream drought with no oasis in sight

Originally posted by Seeker


True Leo, so true, however I do find his books entertaining. *I don't think anything he has written can be considered truly original. *They all seem to be to just be New Age wrappings of older doctrines.

I was shocked and heartbroken to learn that he and his \"soulmate\" had divorced. *Guess it wasn't his soulmate afterall, eh?

For years he was just some old silly Aviation Journalist... When I was younger I was into flying airplanes and knew Richard Bach's byline from the Flying Magazine. so that little best selling book did launch him into a crowd with which he was entirely unfamiliar. From there it did not take the most cunning female in the World to seduce him into the legal liability of marriage. I glanced through that one book he wrote at the time, and was deeply embarrassed for him.

I understood him when he wrote of love of flying. I understood him when he wrote of love of Spirituality. But what talent or insight is there is to write of the love a good piece of... of carnal lust.

I felt embarrassed for him like an innocent ten year old boy feels for an older friend that suddenly disgraces himself by going off to play with the girls. He was a man who suddenly became this very famous sissy.

What he needs now is a tough guy book, to see if he can rehabilitate himself.