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I have just got the dreaded writers block and literally cant create or write anything im happy with or can get into for longer than an hour.

What do you guys do to get the creative juices going again?

I don`t, I just do other shit until the muse comes back to me, the dirty whore.

Creative downtime is a good time to organise samples, find new samples, make new samples (get shit from around the house and start recording it, hit it, drop it, scrape it etc), learn a new synth, buff up your technique etc.

Not a solution, but a way to make yourself useful in a music production way until you're over it: make sounds and samples for later use until the creativity flows again. (damn steve beat me to it)

A solution is to find something that makes you really angry or sad, let it really get to you, then you will just make music to get away from it and express it.

Make really bad shit, forget about it and start again, make more bad shit, go again, and repeat until you get all the bad shit out of your system! ..

willemb wrote:Not a solution, but a way to make yourself useful in a music production way until you're over it: make sounds and samples for later use until the creativity flows again. (damn steve beat me to it)

Thirding this. Actually usually when I start doing this I can't help but start making a track with the created sounds/samples so the writer's block takes care of itself.

seems, I'm stuck in the loop of just creating bad shit over and over again, but I'm always trying something new with it. so hopefully something good will come of it

In these situations, I simply go out of the studio and not come back until I feel inspired.
You can do a lot of musically-related things without being in the studio and producing. Listen to records (not techno, if you produce techno), read music books, go out and record new samples with a portable recorder...
Or maybe change approach. If you're arranging, buy a synth with MIDI and jam on Ableton with it. I usually start to jam with synth, guitar and other percs I own (a djembe, other percs I bougth during trips).

You could also watch some seriously close to the edge porn. Like reeeeaaaallllyyy wrong, but not quite illegal.
And wank furiously, like, FURIOUSLY, to the point where you can`t any more.

Then think about what you just did, really hard.


The resulting guilt, the wrong-ness and feeling dirty will give you an emotional edge to work with.

See how you like that, muse, you fucking bitch, leave me, see if I care.
You`ll be back, you bitch, yooooou`ll be back, I can always find other women to please me.......

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It's covered well there's no point banging your head against a wall unless you HAD to get something down. Wouldn't be much fun then. You have basically hit a plateau and need to do something constructive to get going again or take a break.

ive just had about 3 months off and now im beginning to get the urge back.

Mslwte wrote:ive just had about 3 months off and now im beginning to get the urge back.

NICE ONE

Lost to the Void wrote:You could also watch some seriously close to the edge porn. Like reeeeaaaallllyyy wrong, but not quite illegal.
And wank furiously, like, FURIOUSLY, to the point where you can`t any more.

Then think about what you just did, really hard.


The resulting guilt, the wrong-ness and feeling dirty will give you an emotional edge to work with.

See how you like that, muse, you fucking bitch, leave me, see if I care.
You`ll be back, you bitch, yooooou`ll be back, I can always find other women to please me.......

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so..
that kind of thing..

I do that sometimes...

Mslwte wrote:ive just had about 3 months off and now im beginning to get the urge back.

Props to you man.

Three months.... That's a long time without a wank... A REAL LONG TIME.

And this is why I come on here, you get the best ideas.

Just got to stock up on loo roll now

if i get stuck with ideas i try to learn something different. like a different synthesis technique. a different way to sample things (like other already suggested). stuff like that. or try to make sounds for a different purpose. i recently started watching some tutorials about audio in video games for that reason for example

mainst09 wrote:

Lost to the Void wrote:You could also watch some seriously close to the edge porn. Like reeeeaaaallllyyy wrong, but not quite illegal.
And wank furiously, like, FURIOUSLY, to the point where you can`t any more.

Then think about what you just did, really hard.


The resulting guilt, the wrong-ness and feeling dirty will give you an emotional edge to work with.

See how you like that, muse, you fucking bitch, leave me, see if I care.
You`ll be back, you bitch, yooooou`ll be back, I can always find other women to please me.......

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so..
that kind of thing..

I do that sometimes...

I based it on your life

jordanneke wrote:

Mslwte wrote:ive just had about 3 months off and now im beginning to get the urge back.

Props to you man.

Three months.... That's a long time without a wank... A REAL LONG TIME.

Ah it's ok. My wife likes to lend a hand

Mslwte wrote:

jordanneke wrote:

Mslwte wrote:ive just had about 3 months off and now im beginning to get the urge back.

Props to you man.

Three months.... That's a long time without a wank... A REAL LONG TIME.

Ah it's ok. My wife likes to lend a hand

Lost to the Void wrote:You could also watch some seriously close to the edge porn. Like reeeeaaaallllyyy wrong, but not quite illegal.
And wank furiously, like, FURIOUSLY, to the point where you can`t any more.

Then think about what you just did, really hard.


The resulting guilt, the wrong-ness and feeling dirty will give you an emotional edge to work with.

Ahhhhh, a normal Friday night.

Lost to the Void wrote:

Were you knocking one out to Boredrussianbitchesgivinghead tumblr?