Screenwriting : Writer's block by Ales Soares

write 3 pages every morning. a tool described in "The Artist's Way" or read "Writing Down the Bones"

Well, I sometimes find writing with a soundtrack helps me. If I'm writing a comedy, a horror, or an historical drama, I'll put on appropriate music.

When it comes to coming up with creative ideas from scratch, sometimes it just starts with a single element. I was once goofing around with a short, obscene little story that my friend and I co-wrote for shock-humour, and I came up with the name "Old Man Fox" for one of the characters. Years later I went back to that name and made it the title of a hypothetical movie and tried to figure out what that movie would be about. Now I have a dark comedy script registered and submitted to the Page Awards Competition (fingers crossed).

I'd suggest writing down any interesting dreams you have. You can get a lot from those.

Watch the first 20 or so minutes of a well written movie favorite of yours, have a little red wine, shed inhibitions and go crazy on your laptop. Just puke out whatever you think.

Write erotica. Nothing fuels the imagination like dreaming up new and exciting ways to have sex.

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That's hard stuff. When I was in college, I was writing newspaper stories everyday for the school newspapers; writing critical essays every week for my English courses; writing a short story every week for my creative writing program; and doing poetry slams every weekend for myself. It's really hard to do all that. I feel your pain.....wish I had something to help you....other than to say.....KEEP PUSHING.

Best of luck to you, Ales!

Yep like Bill says, just gotta push through and write. I write dry and boring reports at my day job, business profiles and human interest stories for my freelance business, and screenplays for my passion. You have to train your brain to flit easily between the writing styles.

Pick a person, pick a place that person should not be, figure out how they got there, who's with them, who or what's stopping them from getting out, and how they finally get out. Put it on paper. And smile while doing so.

Use writing prompts to create simple elements (characters, situations) then use the content from your academic papers as the backdrop/backstory and fill-out the elements you created from the prompts. You're actually in an enviable position, as you've already done the research most of us have to do AFTER we decide on a story. :D