Writers Block Senryu

Just call me WB Ricochet

So I got nuthin
So I write a bunch of crap
I still got nuthin

Author's Note

Writers block, ugh

Reviews

[Marie Anzalone]

My late friend Dan had a cure for writer's block. He told me to go to the local yuppie sports bar, a sbrightly neon lit as you can find, with as many screens as possible. look around you. Really look. And then say, "yeah, my life sucks, and I cannot find a single thing of inspiration right now... but. At least I'm not THAT guy over there. Or THAT one. etc."

Repeat as necessary, he told me. I think this technique may work in several different settings besides yuppie sports bars.

[Baby Ricochet]

sounds like a plan

[Marie Anzalone]

Dan was no fool. God, how I miss him, still.

[Lisa]

Interesting exercise. I'll have to try that someday.

[Lady Ra]

I lovvvve this poem. Sometimes the creative garden needs a little fertilizer in order to grow a rose.

[Baby Ricochet]

Yes it does and if you've read some of the fertilizer I've written since "Ice House of Broken Gears" my garden should be a regular Amazon basin by now. I tend to fall back on funny and dirty when I've got nothing else.

[Lady Ra]

There's no harm in a little brainless smut or humour from time to time. But this poem is still great.

[Marie]

Obviously your cat was trying to help you...too bad it fell asleep...

[Baby Ricochet]

HA! She was

[Jack...]

I once ran around a writer's block...boy was I out of breath. Nice my friend.

[Baby Ricochet]

HA! Thank you Jack

[emmajoy]

Writer's block doesn't mean a thing; tis all in the mind you know.

[Baby Ricochet]

It is. A block in my mind.

[emmajoy]

I know that.. my English so-called humour went to waste!

[TL Boehm]

NICE! I don't believe in writers block. You said it so well - I believe there is "Writers crap" - and we can write it until the good ideas come - right? I know I write TONS of it.

[Baby Ricochet]

We're all guilty of it. Thank you TL

[quinfinn]

take two bong hits of cush and call me in the morning.....

[Baby Ricochet]

Oh lord I'd never write anything. I'd be out in the kitchen eating everything not nailed down

[quinfinn]

it could happen!

[Kenneth The Poet]

If you have nothing, then run with it. And here, you ran far with it.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Kenneth

[Ayvid N]

ugh. I know that feeling. Hang on Baby.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Divya

[Emily B]

what is writer's block? i never write a thing til the words come and sing on my shoulder

[Baby Ricochet]

In this case writers block is trying to come up with a piece that's tight and hits a common chord like "Ice House of Broken Gears" did. That poem is casting a big shadow over my work. Silly crap like "I like girls" or "Sacriligious" I can write all day.
I'm gonna bust a bullshit rhyme
Take me less than seconds time
A*s f**k a gypsy super fine
Masterbate with old pork rinds

See? I can do that nonsense all day long. I can even make poems out of it like "Down at the Zombie Hop but stuff like "Ice house of broken gears" "In spite of Everything" "Working for Wal Mart Nation" Circus of Discontent" Even "Little fawn" I haven't had the inspiration for. I try and I got nuthin

[Emily B]

patience, man, the good stuff is worth waiting for, you can't force it, it has to flow

when it is ready to erupt, you will know

[Ayvid N]

This is the best-worded advice on writer's block I ever read.

[Emily B]

thank you, sometimes you can give it a little prod . . . sometimes