Writer's block? What writer's block?

You  know, they say that when you have absolutely no bloody clue about what you should write, you should try doing some free writing. I'm not entirely sure who 'they' are, but what I do know is  what free writing is. It's when you don't censor yourself and you just sort of let words pour forth from out of your brain and onto your computer. It's a bit like freestyling, except with far, far less street cred.

The reason that I'm doing it is that for the last few weeks I haven't had a single solitary clue about what the hell I should write. I've kept the whole sports blogging stuff ticking over as, frankly, it is ridiculously easy to mock the sporting world. But in terms of other, actual writing? Forget about it...

I currently have three books which are really not doing a whole lot. One is finished and just needs some early chapter edits before submission to the editor, one is 30,000 words in and needs some extra early early chapters pumped in to it as it is apparently bad form to start your main 'call to arms' half way through the second chapter, and one which is 11,000 in, but is serious and I can't make dick jokes in it. That means that my entire vocabulary runs out at around the 11,000 words mark. Well, frankly if I can't make jokes I run out of words at around the 11 mark, but we'll ignore that.

Then you get to here, where I generally spend each Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday sitting around scratching my chin looking at a blank page for a few minutes, then switching off by computer and trying hard to crack the top 10,000 lap times around Road America in Forza 3. I've lost my mojo a bit, frankly.

On top of that I have a script which has about two scenes finished and a lot of scribbles on a white board, college applications which are sat unfilled on my desk and a 'To Do' list which is off the bottom of my white board and onto Postit notes.

So, has all of this helped? Well.... no, frankly. I still have absolutely no clue how I'm going to structure new opening book chapters, no idea how I'm going to introduce 3 more characters in a script, no idea how I'm going to write an entire book without making dick jokes and no idea how I'm going to shave 7 seconds off of my Forza 3 lap time. Still, at least I got a Thursday blog posting done...