As writers we have two basic problems: We have to deal with writer's block and finding inspiration. The easy way to solving these problems is by turning on the TV and watching your favorite documentaries, I don't care if it's on the History Network, Discovery Channel, or even if you're just going to Netflix or Hulu, just track down whatever sounds really great and just simply watch them.
You're going to find that a lot of really great stuff, some really incredible people, and some really fun situations that can be adapting to pretty much anything you're working on. And this is gonna help you both with writer's block as well as finding inspiration.You've got so much incredibly fun stuff going on that it's hard to be inspired by something. And once you start exploring, start getting into it, you see that this is some really great stuff; it needs to be written down and maybe even adapted into something.
A lot of the stuff you see in documentaries is great for either a historical novel, or changing the details and converting that into your particular novel. It's always easy to convert something: You want some sweet old fashioned Space Marines go ahead and use the Roman gladiators as a model. There's always going to be something going on somewhere; it's just a matter of looking for it. And sometimes what's really cool is that this stuff will hit you unawares: You'll be watching a show, see something cool, and figure how to use it.
This will demolish almost any writer's block. Sometimes the problem is that you simply can't figure out what to do with something. So if you're having problem with finding inspiration, if you having problems with writer's block, then step away from laptop and just simply go ahead and watch some history shows.
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