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why does my mind hate me

Your mind probably doesn't hate you half as much as we're all going to hate this thread. Take solace in that.

Well, here's a few possible solutions that tend to work for me...

-Go for a run

-Listen to music

-Drink

-Read other people's work

-Masturbate

-Smoke

-Work out and Excercise

-Set scrap paper on fire

-Take recreational drugs

-Bounce ideas off someone

I have no fucks to give you but so many fucks total :(

Write a story about a band of nomadic invaders that harass the ever loving shit out of the greatest empire in the world to the point that the empire pays them tribute. The nomads then use this gold to upgrade their army and two decades later wage full-scale war for the empire's lands. However, at the moment of nomadic victory, a holy man for the empire has a secret discussion with the nomad leader. And the nomads leave the city ransacked and return the the land they already captured. Yet the empire still collapses into tiny fragments.

If anything, just force yourself to write even when if you're spewing out crap.  Once you've got all your crap spilled out, you can revise and rebuild your shit piece by piece until it suddenly doesn't look like turd.

But don't worry; we'll still roast the shit out of you if you're a bad writer.  That way, you can go back and fix it again and get better.

Repeat this anywhere from 5-20 times and you should come out with a work that would surprise the person you are today.

Oh I didn't realize we were going to take this six word OP posted on the wrong board seriously, my bad.

Um, just pick a random idea and write 1000 words about it. Do this every day until something clicks, then sit down and create an outline and continue it.

I gave her the Hunnic invasion of the Roman Empire.

Well now you explained the joke and ruined it. :[

I'm helping children learn ^_^

There's even an article for this. Seriously, come on, at least try. Give us an actual OP. This isn't a chatroom, you can't just go around posting six-worded crap bombs all over the place.

From your profile: "I am a semi-professional writer." Yes, sure looks like it.

"What do I care for your suffering? Pain, even agony, is no more than information before the senses, data fed to the computer of the mind. The lesson is simple: you have received the information, now act on it. Take control of the input and you shall become master of the output."

Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Essays on Mind and Matter"

Seeing you like that statement, by any chance have you read Antifragile?

Haven’t read that one. Just sort of had an Alpha Centauri moment.

Not to mention there’s been a lot of throwing around of quotes lately on here, figured I’d join in on the brief fad.

Well, ya know what Sun Tzu said: "Uh, I dunno, make it about cats or something."

 

 

E: Wait don't do that