How do you do it?
Ironicly i can sit and write a blog on not being able to write.
But then i know this blog won't take up most of my year, it doesn't need characters or plots, i start writing and at some point in the next hour or so i'll be finished, no re-writes no frustrating writers block, just a few paragraphs and i'm done, i don't even need to write discription, i just write exactly whats on my mind and then stop when my mind goes blank on this subject, and believe me, it won't take long for that to happen.
So, the title, Can't Write; There are lots of people out there who want to be a writer, but don't know how, i used to be one of them, all i can say is just start writing, it doesn't really matter what you write, just write. And read, read all the time, lot of books, that'll give you an idea of how its done especially if you read books in the genre you want to write in. So, get a pen a pad and just start writing whats on your mind.
Won't write; This is where i am now, in the phase of laziness, using the fear of failure as an excuse for laziness, i've also used the "I have no time" "I'm really busy" and the "i have writers block" defenses, its all bullshit. You probably waste more time every day then it'll take to write something. One hour, thats all it takes, just one bloody hour a day, even if your not writing anything, sit there, spend your hour thinking about the work, but sit down and spend your hour a day, the point is to get used to it, make that one daily hour a habbit. You'll most likely find that the hour, once you get started, goes fast and you will be spending up to three hours daily instead, i usually get lost in it and don't want to stop, that is, if i ever actually get started. Where i am right now is, i want to start Chapter One of my book, but its going really slow, and i just sit looking at my screen not writing anything, it feels like a waste of time, but its not, i'm spending that time thinking and developing the story in my mind, it helps in the end. But, i'm a lazy bastard and can't seem to get started on a daily basis. You need to find that place in which you feel comfortable enough to write, away from everything, turn off your phone, close the curtains, because everything outside your window is a distraction, even if nothing is happening, unless your view is of a brick wall, and force yourself to spend one hour every day sitting there, pen paper, computer or voice recording, but sit there, soon enough you'll start writing.
I write these blogs when something other then my book or script ideas are on my mind, it helps to clear those thoughts out, otherwise i think about them all day and night. Personally i have over 30 ideas for books and scripts, thats to many, so get your idea and get cracking, if a new idea pops in there, write some notes to remind you of them then get back to your original idea, file the notes for later. You only want to work on one at a time, yeah i know it sounds odd to say it, but if you getting a little tired of the first idea and the second sounds more exiting, you might stop the first in favour of the second, don't do this, finsih your first, get atleast a first draft done, then start work on your second.
Okay, when you've completed the first draft, file it, leave it for at least two weeks, so when it comes time to do a re-write, you can look at the material fresh.
So go write something.
