ATTN JMS: Writer's Block

[B5JMS Poster]

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
From: kevin at tesarta.com (Kevin Munoz)
Date: 12 Jun 1997 08:24:56 -0400
Lines: 26

    [The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set]
    [Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set]
    [Some characters may be displayed incorrectly]

In article <19970611104200.GAA08080 at ladder02.news.aol.com>, jmsatb5 at aol.com
(Jms at B5) wrote:

> This is probably going to honk off a lot of other writers, but...I've
> never had writer's block.  Never.  Not ever.  Not in the 26 years since I
> started writing seriously at age 17.  My problem has only been in getting
> it all *down*, there's so much to work from.  If I dried up right now on
> stories, what I have in notes alone could probably carry me through the
> next 10 years.

That, I think, explains how you got so damn good (with "the tools", as you've
put it) so damn fast. Practice, practice, practice, they say---and you can't
stop.

I wish I could do that...for me, writing is the constant struggle against an
unseen embolism. Sigh.

-- 
Kevin Munoz
Tesarta Industries, Inc.
http://www.tesarta.com/
Home of the Gamer's Resource Page

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 14 Jun 1997 20:38:46 -0400
Lines: 23

"That, I think, explains how you got so damn good (with "the tools", as
you've
put it) so damn fast. Practice, practice, practice, they say---and you
can't
stop."

Yep.  Especially the Can't Stop part.  I've written an average of 10 pages
per day, every day of the year but 3, since I was 17.  

I also think that working in journalism has helped a great deal; you can't
walk into the office, a story needed by noon, and say, "Y'know, I just
don't feel the muse today."  The next thing you'll feel is your butt on
the concrete sidewalk.  You learn a certain discipline there that has
helped me greatly over the years.




 jms




-***
-*** B5JMS SUBSCRIBERS: Replies to messages go to the list maintainer,
-*** <b5jms-owner at cs.columbia.edu>.  If you want to reply elsewhere, adjust
-*** the "To" field.  The best way to reach JMS is to post to rastb5m, which
-*** can be done by sending email to <b5mod at deepthot.cary.nc.us>.