Artist's Block

Mystic Fibrosis

Right, for the last couple of weeks i've been having a major creative block, as in both musically and artistically.

Thing is i'm seriously considering Music as a career and this is having all kinds of negative effects on everything I do as normally everything I do revolves around either drawing or making music, neither of which I can do. For the last couple of weeks it's gotten me royally depressed and annoyed, to the point where I locked my guitars away for a while. I'm starting to feel like I won't ever be able to do what I love anymore and i'm going into 5th year, where my choices revolve around arts, which I'm seeing as a waste now.

It doesn't help either that the music I listen to is very complicated and all the musicians that compose it are amazing. I can't listen to the albums anymore because I find it too hard to not become incredibly jealous and sad over it.

Is there any way to get over this? Because it's starting to feel like I'm living for nothing.

Gordon

"as normally everything I do revolves around either drawing or making music, neither of which I can do. "

So I don't understand - can you do music or art or not?

Surely it should be what you want to do, because what you think you can do is not where your talents will stop. Unless you want them to.

mike65

Gordon I think thats a reference to the blockage in question...

As for the creative lull, well its difficult to suggest solutions as it depends on the individual, I just stop trying. This year has been a quiet one for my musical endevours. You really cant force the issue
but doing something else quite different may help take up a sport or other physical pastime.

I dont know your musical tastes or what you play/compose but try something completly different if you've never listened to say Prog Rock try some or blues or Baroque classical. Inspiration can come from the oddest places!

Mike.

Sarky

Aye, just relax, and it'll come. Actively searching for creativity rarely works. Take a break, do something different. You'll find yourself humming a cracking good tune out of nowhere before you know it!

Mystic Fibrosis

hehe, I think I'm almost over it!

I think it's a matter of being unconfident in the stuff I write, and automatically seeing the things I write as bad. But tonight is different, yay

SOL

Obviously you've found the best cure for blockages lots of lube and a good rogering, well done











(sorry I couldn't resist)

Crash

tbh i find the best way to combat it is a change. the last time i went through one of those was bout 8 months ago, when i was listening to much heavier stuff. since then my tastes changed to much more mellow folk-soft rock acoustic picking orientated music, which helped me get over the worst of it

cournioni

Everyone has those days or even weeks when they cannot play a guitar to their full potential. It is more of a mental thing than anything and once you set your mind to it you'll get over it straight away.

Oriel

Then write about your writer's block...

yellum

The Cohen Brothers suffered writers block during the writing for Millers Crossing so they took a break and wrote a screenplay about a screenplay writer who had writers block and it turned into the movie Barton Fink.

I've read before that immersing yourself into some new style of painting or type of music and trying to work in that style can help.

If you are a metal fan start listening to Rachmaninov etc

sceptre

Originally posted by Sinecure
Then write about your writer's block...

Like Albert Brooks did with The Muse?

(yellum's example is probably far better:D)

mike65

Did'nt a recent Nic Cage film have a similair premise.

Adaption...?

Mike.

Giblet

I take writers block as a clue that I have to learn more, so eh..learn more

www.wholenote.com for some guitar.