Im sure this has been asked a billion times but....

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Really good advice all around. Luna- i think the first thing im picking is that song i promised grandmas corpse to make up for being a bad grandchild. Just kidding. Sort of. Ive been putting that one off but it seems the random lines i was jotting down today were gravitating to that anyway. Ive pretty much processed it at this point and got past the guilt of not visiting her for her last three years but its still recent enough that i could write a little strongly about it. Then after that ill write a butt rock song about getting drunk and leering at women. I like a palate cleanser after writing something a little close to home like that. That reminds me. Need to pitch that song about my depression and then set that song about hatesex to music for comedic purposes.

[Luna]

Roll with it.   

I dunno much about curing writer's block... but I know the surest way to CAUSE it with me is for me to say, "oh, YEAH, I can do something with that..."

WHAM.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

I think my main drawbacks are:

-ok what am i writing about
-i need to write alone in the dark 50 miles from civilization before i show it to anyone because otherwise someone will read the crappy bits over my shoulder
-related: thats too fucking cheesy :trash: (instead of tweak)
-how the hell am i going to come up with a guitar riff or a chord progression for that?
-Hey guys i wrote this song. All of it. Including your parts. Oh. Ok yeah ill start up that dictatorial side project soon.
-Semi-related: i am a horrible procrastinator. :cdgasm:

[Luna]

I think my main drawbacks are:

-ok what am i writing about
-i need to write alone in the dark 50 miles from civilization before i show it to anyone because otherwise someone will read the crappy bits over my shoulder
-related: thats too fucking cheesy :trash: (instead of tweak)
-how the hell am i going to come up with a guitar riff or a chord progression for that?
-Hey guys i wrote this song. All of it. Including your parts. Oh. Ok yeah ill start up that dictatorial side project soon.
-Semi-related: i am a horrible procrastinator. :cdgasm:

Mmm.  From now on, do not trash ANYTHING.  Even if it's utter garbage.  Hand it to someone you trust for review and repair, first.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

That does work. Ive always been inclined to write in composition notebooks instead of looseleaf. Im stuck with it. Funny thing about that is that it has happened that anarchangel lyrics were formed before anarchangel started. Even funnier the name anarchangel came from the same note book (i went through a phase when i was enamored with lucifer as a character. I later defined an anarchangel not as a rebel angel but rather an angel that renounced archangelhood for its own path-neither gods nor satans. But some odd totally free third option between damnation and salvation.)

[AFK]

Not that Im in a band or anything, but writing lyrics is hard.   thats why when I was writing and recording music, I mostly did instrumental stuff.  Every time I tried it came out as goofy garbage.  Just not my thing I suppose.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So uh

My advice might not be very useful. I have never had writers block; I have had writer's diarrhea, but never writer's block. Sometimes I don't FEEL like writing, or am not INSPIRED to write, but here is the thing.

Every shitting thing that streams out of your fingers is writing. You are never "blocked", it's just that sometimes you're a shitty fucking writer, and you fear the fuck out of that, so you avoid writing because your ego has you so bound up and creatively constipated that you're too busy being a pussy-ass motherfucker afraid of how dumb you'll sound to actually just let that shit, that mediocre, idiotic, barely comprehensible bullshit just flow from your brain to your fingertips.

Here's my advice:

FUCK IT.

Stop being afraid to be a terrible writer. Just sit your insecure pansy motherfucking ass down and write the worst thing you can think of. Try to be good, try to be bad, or try to simply string a sentence together; it does not fucking matter at all. Get drunk or don't get drunk; get jacked on coffee or don't. Doesn't fucking matter. Just FUCK IT.

After you've fucked it for a few pages, go back and read what you wrote. Pull out the good shit. Keep in mind, anything you think is genius now is probably shit and will get culled later. DOES NOT MATTER RIGHT NOW. If it inspires you, build around it, and if it doesn't,

KEEP ON FUCKING THAT CHICKEN.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

So while some may see "anarch angel"  i see "not an archangel." the ambiguity was intentional but i did once publically spell it out as an-archangel."

must be laconic

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

How bout "An Archangel"?

Bet you didn't mean that.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Its true that i didnt think of an archangel but i like that ambiguity too. Wheres the emphasis? Its just one word.

Laconic.

I think nigel nailed it. Idle hands are dead hands. Or at least an idle pen hand is a dead hand. (left hand for beer or coffee!!!). If i am doing nothing else i should be writing. I should always be doing something unless im sleeping.

Also nigel- ive even done some culling on the grandma lyrics. Sometimes you have a good shit but sometimes it starts out hard then easy then watery then satisfying.

Can you believe i rhymed omey with homey? No fuck that (my grandmothers grave is located on omey island/peninsula (depends on the tides which also figure in)

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Well uh... That kinda hurt. But with a little cleaning up i just wrote a song. Mental note- no cathartic songwriting at the bar. You wont be able to control the leakage.

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

So uh

My advice might not be very useful. I have never had writers block; I have had writer's diarrhea, but never writer's block. Sometimes I don't FEEL like writing, or am not INSPIRED to write, but here is the thing.

Every shitting thing that streams out of your fingers is writing. You are never "blocked", it's just that sometimes you're a shitty fucking writer, and you fear the fuck out of that, so you avoid writing because your ego has you so bound up and creatively constipated that you're too busy being a pussy-ass motherfucker afraid of how dumb you'll sound to actually just let that shit, that mediocre, idiotic, barely comprehensible bullshit just flow from your brain to your fingertips.

Here's my advice:

FUCK IT.

Stop being afraid to be a terrible writer. Just sit your insecure pansy motherfucking ass down and write the worst thing you can think of. Try to be good, try to be bad, or try to simply string a sentence together; it does not fucking matter at all. Get drunk or don't get drunk; get jacked on coffee or don't. Doesn't fucking matter. Just FUCK IT.

After you've fucked it for a few pages, go back and read what you wrote. Pull out the good shit. Keep in mind, anything you think is genius now is probably shit and will get culled later. DOES NOT MATTER RIGHT NOW. If it inspires you, build around it, and if it doesn't,

KEEP ON FUCKING THAT CHICKEN.

This is the boat I am in and the motorcycle I use to get off said boat. Sans chicken fucking. 

[Freeky]

Because of this thread, and Nigel's good advice, I went and looked at the KFTC video again.  The look on that lady's face is PRICELESS.

Trip, thanks for mentioning oblique whatever thing and that a tarot deck will do just as good a job.   It gave me something to write about and was helpful.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Due to closeness of subject matter i left notebook on kitchen table for keyboardist. Shes one of my best friends as well as objective reviewer.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Due to closeness of subject matter i left notebook on kitchen table for keyboardist. Shes one of my best friends as well as objective reviewer.

This sounds like a potentially productive strategy.