Writer's block.

If you want to do a piece of writing and your stuck for ideas what to write, here are ideas that may or may not interested you.

May be you would like to write about a place or a town that means something to you.

architecture, traffic, gardens and the atmosphere.

The neighbourhood and local characters that make the atmosphere.

A building in the town that interests you for whatever reasons.

It could be an old picture house, town hall, church or shop.

Smells, colours and noises.

It may be the country side, landscape, hills wood and etc.

Seaside place you like noises, smells and etc.

It can be set at any time and at place anywhere. ( past present or even something you may picture for the future.) From say millions of years ago to what's happened just this minute.

I moved back to Wolverhampton from Shorpshine and Wales 17 yrs ago. I was on an adult training scheme which was based in Low hill, Fall ens park Wolverhampton. To find the place was a big maze going through 1st Avenue, 2nd Avenue and etc. The strange thing was I just started writing yet without even hearing about the poets such as Keats, Wordsworth and all them there were roads in Fall ens park named after them.

In 1997, I had a very bad relationship break up just as a lot of us do. I was a student at the time studying creative writing and English. During lunch break after a lot of study in the library.I started looking at the poetry books without thinking about it. I picked John Keats I didn't put down until the end it inspired me that much.He wasn't going through anything much to what I was going through at the time.
Before I read his poems, I thought I was the only one going through pain. When I finished reading I found myself having to write, I felt as if so many things that were going through my head, I hadn't said. When I started writing little did I realize my work would turn into poet, this was when I started to feel as if things were coming off my mind and that I was slowly on the mend moving on from my failed relationship.

Due to how my disability used I was slowly learning managed to take information in.
I knew it connected with what I was going through but it was one of early stages of my writing career.

I had a poem written in each of 11 books by a publishers called Poetry Now but my Mother thought they had ribbed me off. I haven't had any luck with publishing since then due to a lack of support. The poems that I did have published on are on this website but I started this website in 2007 so it will mean you looking through three years of work I have done on here.

Here are some possible topics you may be interested in case you want to write today, any time or day. You can write about yesterday's topic if you want, you don't have to follow this in order if you don't want. You don't have to go along with what I say at all, it's there in case it helps you. You don't even have to join the writer's group if don't want.

May be you may want to write about who and or what inspired you to write.

Creating your own superhero, someone who brings out the good.
Someone who saves yours or Someones live.
It can be fiction or non - fiction, true is non - fiction not true is fiction for those who don't know that.

Write a lonely hearts report.

Write something about learning disability, other races and it's history.

At the moment I am reading the diary of Anne. She would have been two years older than my Grandmother.They were both children in world war 2. The war broke out when my Nan was eight, she told me about it when I was eight, which I didn't understand at first due to my disability. As much as I understood that the men died in the war and that we wouldn't have been born if it wouldn't have been for them. This is the reason why people wear poppies. Nan put a poppy on my coat and said.

" This isn't just a flower but a flower of memory."

Wars are hard times for everyone but If Nan had it as bad as Anne Flank, the rest of my family and myself wouldn't be here today. When I read Anne Flank's diary I think of my Nan, as if she was writing a diary because I remember her telling me what growing in the war was like. I don't think Nan had time to keep a diary when she had to look after her seven brothers and sisters while my great Grandparents were working. My Nan was the eldest of eight. Saying that my Nan loved her reading, she'd knit, watch telly, do the crossword, keep an eye on us the Grandchildren at the same time. I thought I could get away with been naughty, little did I know that Nan had eyes at the back of her head.

Today we have computers, Mobile phones, washing machines, inside toilets and etc. There was none of that back then. We moan about today's cutback but for eg; having to go to toilet outside must have been worse. As for the cutbacks, I think we have been a bit too greedy with too much IT, which they didn't have. For eg; it's easy access for us today get help with our sums where as one time we used to have to use our brains. It's now becoming a lazy world, we don't know how lucky we are in someways but in another ways we are unlucky because a lot of the hard times made us stronger people as grow ups strong to life in a lot of ways. For eg; learning to understand right from wrong.

War is a nasty thing, we are all human at the end of day. People understand we can't have it all easy otherwise wouldn't be strong but race make us all different people.
If we were all the same it would a boring world.Some things people are born to be, other things people choose to be, let's not hold these things against them and give them the same rights as everyone in the world. Most people may need support to have their choices, for eg; people with learning disabilities, where there's a will there's a way without taking away peoples' chooses away.

Everyone should have equal rights. Every person is a human beings, the likes of Hitler shouldn't have taken people's rights and lives away from them.

May be you could write a bit of history on any topic you want to write about. It may be worth looking into your family history if that cornets with what your writing about, your choice.

What I have learned from this long week at Penn Hall school is how to please children when they are reading stories. Every child had to create their superhero and story, I just had to put it into the story. I wasn't only adult with disabilities who worked with the children, there adults with all kinds of creative abilities who interested the children to their talents too. It was a great experience for me, I hope it was a great experience for the children. I found Monday morning, may be it was the Monday morning blues with the teenage six form. I had to go through the hows, wheres, whats, whys and etc to help them create their superhero stories in an easy way as possible, we got there in the end, which was no more hard than the other artists had to go through. They didn't seem to understand the differences between real life and protein, I also told them that fiction can be based on truth. It's all confusing in different ways but a lot of us were taught like weren't we? The main thing was they tried their best and did really well, I can really enjoy it and I hope they did. Having had learning disabilities myself I can relate to how my understanding was at that age it wasn't that much different to there's. Even though I'm older now than I wasn't then I haven't forgotten if even thought I have bettered myself over the years, well I hope I have anyway.

What we all have learned in life that not all of us can get on, some situations you may come across in work, school, college and etc. The hardest part was getting to see that in class or work you don't show what's outside. For eg; if one child couldn't get along with the other they thought they could show that in their work. Their teacher even said they find it hard to understand team work and it's not fare on the others who are working with them when there's an unhappy atmosphere.


As I have said On this website is that I have been writing since I was 23 yrs of age, now 41. The great thing was I started to learn to take in what I was reading so I was slowing learning to teach myself to pick up something to read a bit more. Before hand when I tried to read anything the print was too hazy for me or I read it but then found it hard to take it in before I put down whatever I was reading. I understand why I haven't had a great of luck with publishing because I haven't known how to please my reader, it's very hard when you don't see your readers looking at your work. Having Said that even most experience people in talents can't always please their publishers or whoever brings them out to be known in this world or not in the case may be. The real shame is when no one discovers how talented someone is until they die. It's a real shame when someone doesn't see the stand out of the hard work they have done.

If there's anyone does agrees with what I say may be you will agree that a writer's group may be a great to find out what your readers like and don't like. Not everyone whose a reader is a writer so may be there should be a reader's group for non writers as well as writers to find out what the non writers like as well as writers like and dislike from their writers. Sorry if I have confused things there. One of the great things about the Internet is you can do you reply to someones work or you can reply to each others' work. This could be a great way of trying to helping one another or help a writers to know what their readers like to read.

Reading to a point that you have big interest in reading, taking in what you read to get your ideas to write. As long as you understand that your can't copy of someones work. It helps when Your stuck on ideas or and on topic to write about, if their work interests you. You can be inspired by someone who has the same talent as you, normally someone who writes about the same topic as you. You can inspire new people work and they can even inspire even if your talent has been going on longer than theirs, this where I think talent is a wonderful thing and getting together as a group in your work is a great way of getting know one another. Some people learn quicker than others for eg; someone who hasn't learned about talent not as long as you may have learned something very quickly what you didn't and should have known a long time ago. Never feel ashamed about that because different teachers have different teaching skills and they know about at different times and some things one never knows.

Reader's and Writer's group on Facebook.

WHAT'S GOING THROUGH YOUR MIND?

As a person with learning disabilities, I understand that it's hard to get the same rights as everyone else. Although all readers or and writers are more than welcome to join the group whether they have disabilities or not. Only two rules I have is that I will not have any discrimination in this group and you must have interest in reading or and writing.I must remind people that no one is force to do what they don't want to do. The group is there for people who want to be there as long as they have a reading and or writing interest.

I am very sorry about the changes but I am hoping it will give readers or and writers more choice and to make people feel like human beings. I'm so sorry if the changes have affected anyone. The idea of this isn't just to share your writiing with others in the group but also what you read if you want. You don't have to be writer to share what you read just as long as have an interest in any knowledge at all. Whether it's from books, newspapers, magazines and etc. If writing is also your interest if you share your work with the group may be you can tell us where your writing is or where it's going to go, book, magazine, newspaper or and etc. Now the group is turning into a Reader's group as well as a Writer's group, I may be able to help the members with things to do with reading and as well to do with writing if you ask.

May be a lot of us need support to get our work on paper right but we do have thoughts running through our head just like everyone else.
We need to tell the world that we are human beings just like they are.
Thoughts that go through our minds could be anything, we could find them hard to talk about or and they could take too long to talk about.
Most of us for whatever reason would rather write than speak.
When it comes to some people can't speak, people tend to think that they can't think.
That's not true when it comes to using the right communication aids to find out and someone to write their thoughts for them.
Some people who can't speak may be able to write.

Every ones' needs are different but somehow with the right support it shouldn't take people's wants away.
This is why I am setting this is why I am setting up the Readers and Writers group on Facebook to give people the chance to communicate in their way.
To be able to share their thoughts with other readers and or writers with people with and without disabilities in stories, poems and or however you want.
If you are interested or you know someone who is please email me on either sarajgorman@googlemail.com or Facebook sarajgorman@gmail.com