Or not. I was going to make this a poll with radio buttons-"Which of the following embarrassing sentences did
bironic not write once upon a time"-but you know what? I had too much fun picking out passages. So: All of the following come from stories I wrote between the ages of about 13 and 18. Hope you enjoy.
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You have my deepest sympathy there. And you know what? Your younger-days writing was pretty darn good!
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Have you found any solutions to "audience block" for yourself?
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What worked for me before was to get notebook paper out and write stream-of-consciousness garbage as I sat with my morning coffee. Just whatever came out, whatever I thought, was worried about, happy about or aggravated over. I wouldn't think of what to write; I'd just start writing and whatever came out would come out. Sometimes it was whatever I remembered dreaming. Sometimes I'd sketch or doodle. Sometimes I'd end up writing free-verse. Sometimes I'd write crap that just didn't seem to mean anything. Basically what this did was clear away all that internal noise by putting it on the page.
It doesn't sound very helpful, but it really, really was.
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It also helps me to look at other people who are totally getting away with the kind of bold, wacky creative stuff that I think of and then squash because I fear the reaction it will get.
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to revisit fandoms I thought I had outgrown. Watch a few episodes of, say, Magnum, P.I. or old Doctor Who
Are those by chance shows you were a fan of without being in fandom? Or were you online for those too?
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I was a fan, but fandom was not known to me in any form.
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