I was actually pretty suprised to see the title of this thread, since it's mostly restricted to poetry/prose forums. But in this case, it links back to school, so.. :mad1:
Anyways, the way I get over my writer's block ('cept mine is poetic - not sure if that makes a difference), is just avoid it for a few hours. Change my state of mind completely. If I come back and it's still there (which it usually is), I'll try a different approach. So say I have to write a poem (or essay or whatever, in this case), then instead of using a textual approach, I'll use a visual one. So I'll just draw pictures of whatever comes to mind. It usually helps, because the pictures are usually a verse/paragraph each.
If that fails too, I try a word association game. Start with the topic of my poem (or essay), and just say whatever springs to mind. I usually try and steer away from negative words that pop into my head, because if your pattern goes like:
Essay > stupid > school > pointless > die!
- then it's usually not all that productive.
Everyone has their different quirks to overcoming different things, so I guess you'll just have to keep trying until you find your way. Sometimes it's just time.
Much luck,
Kaitlyn.
