Usually people that have writers block have something unorganized (For me anything unorganized will ruin my mind state, if my room is messy, if I did not take a bath, if I have dirty clothes, ect). For me personally I absolutely have to have everything clean before my mind can be clean otherwise I can't get shit done. I started writing when I was like 14 or in the 9th grade. I only had writers block like around 4 years after that time period and from what I can remember I had it for like a good few months. I never get writers block, I am 22 now so I was probably around 17-18 when I had true writers block.
What I mean by that, I could think of lines but I could not stick with them. I would write a few things down, then I would throw them away.
Looking back on that I can probably assume it was to me over working myself, I would call those my begging years of writing. What happened was I probably hit a point where I was overwhelm with to much material and in fact it was that.
I used to have in school supsension and I would write 4 entire raps with 3 verses and a chorus before the end of the school day.
My point, I was doing too much to fast, what happened is that I had a pile of papers/raps every week that were so big my brain wanted to explode because half were finished and half were done + I am trying to remember them all.
I FIXED MY WRITERS BLOCK WITHIN 1 DAY LITERALLY
I think this was near the end of high school, one day I decided to start over. I took every rap that I had and ripped them up and threw them in the garbage. Best choice I ever made in my life, I basically took everything out my brain and hit the restart button.
Ever since then I had no problem and never got writers block again. Now I either keep or not keep a rap, where as before I would keep alot of my raps even if I didn't like them or they were half done. I do not start on songs that I do not like, the songs I like alot I try to record and the songs I just like I only keep in a folder.
That is the difference, so I had writers block from my MIND being unorganized, I fixed it by ripping all my raps apart and resting my mind to a clear state.
This is how I do my shit
- Decide if I am in the mood to write
- Find a beat (this is the hardest because I am picky when it comes to beats)
- Think of a random flows/chorus's in my head while listening to the beat
- If I think I can make something I usually then download that beat
- I then write to it
- When I am done it goes in a folder or stays in a notebook
I then either keep it for my own personal use, or decide to record it.
After I record it I then decide if the recording is good enough to put on a CD or not
If its not then I put it in a seperate folder, if I recorded it really good then I put it in another folder where only I have that song and nobody else gets to listen to it (besides a few people I let) because I keep it for the future when I put CD's together.
The only songs I let people hear are my play around songs.