Direction

I feel recently I have come to a point where I feel I have hit a road block. I don't know how to move forward, I feel I am only sidestepping in my new images. I like the story idea but I don't want to push the fairy tale idea too much. I feel I have already exhausted this concept in prior work. Yet somehow my images always go back to some kind of story line. I feel this somewhat has something to do with my interest in fantasy and mystery novels, in which I become so immersed in the story line I sometimes forget the characters do not actually exist. I feel since my series have such a narrative based quality to them, I have a form of writers block. I'm not sure where to take my story. I feel it has so many options while at the same time so few. I have been looking to writer's block tips online to try to get myself out of this hole. Mostly it suggested taking my mind temporarily out of my story line and hoping the break will give me a new perspective.

"It's not that there aren't plenty of topics to write about, the problem is we often feel we need to say something new. The reality is that not much is genuinely new. We all stand on the shoulders of giants."


"Try researching and writing about a completely different topic area. You might not publish the piece, but by immersing yourself in new areas and concepts, you might gain new insights on your chosen field."


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This article was extremely helpful in giving me ideas on how to deal with writer's block. It gives seven different options that one can use to try to get past the block. Most of them deal with not thinking about the subjects at all or trying out a different subject in order to gain a new perspective. One of the points even suggested excersie and another suggests "creatively borrowing" ideas in oder to point oneself in the right direction.