Saturday 27 November 2010

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.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

It's very nice what you wrote but what's better is that you are very close to the reality of this world and few people do not. Like when you say "flower of memory". Yes you are right it would be a nice way to write the memory, the memory of what has been and that many have forgotten. In many cultures, many people who do not feel sorry about their fate because they have this flower in memory, they live the moment to meet their basic needs because they know that forgetting makes life difficult, they go ahead without worrying about daily concerns as they have more to pay, they go to the essentials. I think what is difficult for many is the lack of freedom of thinking and living by themselves. Your blog is very insightful. Many do not linger in the creation of humans because they do not see the interest for themselves. Yet we all learn from each other without losing our place in life that is ours and who is alive as small as it is. Thank you Sara to call the expression of each.