What do you do when you've got writers block?

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What do you do when you've got writers block?

Post by CaTaClYsM » Wed Jan 22, 2003 9:57 pm

what do you do when you can't find the right song, or have trouble just getting an AMV idea together?
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Re: What do you do when you've got writers block?

Post by mexicanjunior » Wed Jan 22, 2003 9:58 pm

CaTaClYsM wrote:what do you do when you can't find the right song, or have trouble just getting an AMV idea together?
I sleep it off. :?

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Re: What do you do when you've got writers block?

Post by Castor Troy » Wed Jan 22, 2003 10:07 pm

mexicanjunior wrote:
CaTaClYsM wrote:what do you do when you can't find the right song, or have trouble just getting an AMV idea together?
I sleep it off. :?
That makes it worse in my experience.
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Post by RichLather » Wed Jan 22, 2003 10:29 pm

I think of another idea, and if the original pops back into my mind it usually works itself out then.

I've always got enough ideas to go around. The strongest ones are the ones I actively pursue source material for, although "Yuji's Defense" came about after I already bought the first volume of Blue Gender.

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Post by MistyCaldwell » Wed Jan 22, 2003 10:33 pm

Writer's block is a term for amv making troubles? o...k.....

Anyway, I always start with the song first. It's easier to find an anime for a song than to find a song for an anime. I have no shortage of ideas but for
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Post by MistyCaldwell » Wed Jan 22, 2003 10:36 pm

:?: My message has been severed! dear lord! :wink:

....But for others I would suggest listening to music until something comes to you.
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Post by Golden Saucer » Wed Jan 22, 2003 10:37 pm

I eat paper makes me concentrate
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Post by RichLather » Wed Jan 22, 2003 10:42 pm

Sure you didn't mean constipated?

I'm with Misty--I never begin work on a project unless I have a song and visual combination in mind.

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Post by Koopiskeva » Wed Jan 22, 2003 10:57 pm

Actually, I find that I have too many ideas and not enough time to get to them all. :|
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Post by The Wired Knight » Wed Jan 22, 2003 11:16 pm

Let it sit, eventually the next thing will come to me, generally this doesn't happen when making the video save for the instrumental when I just use trial and error. but for actual planning I'll just let it sit a while and eventually it'll come to me.
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