Are there any websites to help with writer's block or can you give me advice etc...?

I haven't been able to write for about a month now and whenever I try to just write to get over my writer's block...it doesn't work.....do you have any websites or advice...Are there any websites to help with writer's block or can you give me advice etc...?
This is the method I teach to students





1) Put the book aside and read - at least two books - Classics in your chosen genre.





2) Brainstorm on paper - anything no matter how silly it sounds. Fill a notebook with ideas if you want - just come up with lots.





3) Write the ideas on file cards one per card. Sit down at a table and start shuffling them around trying to create a story from them. Keep moving them - dont be afraid for it to sound silly.





4) Make an outline from those cards when you find something interesting.





5) Try to write a very very short story from that outline. Then write several more very very short stories from the cards. See which one lends itself to a longer work





6) Start doing character studies and analysis - back to the file cards. Write down anything you know about your characters - adjectives, habits, appearance, likes and dislikes, occupation, age, anything. Look in magazines and catalogs and cut out pics that resemble the character as you see them in your mind.





7) Back to the table. Start pushing the character cards around - see who rubs who and how -- Who likes who? Who hates who? Main character to main character - then main character to secondary character - then secondary character to secondary character. This will help you come up with subplots





8) Back to your outline. Plug in the subplots.





9) Come up with a kick tail first sentece that will draw your readers into the story.





10) Start writing.





It works for my students. Just make sure you dont skip the two classics - that is the inspiration that unblocks and inspires you. If you are still blocked, move onto something else. I have about 4 books on disks - started but it just wasnt the right time to write them for me. One goes back to when my 20 yr old son was a baby. Maybe I will finish it one day, maybe not. So far the mood hasnt struck me. And it is a great idea - never been done. Im just not ready for it yet. No shame in leaving something aside.





Good luck. Pax - CAre there any websites to help with writer's block or can you give me advice etc...?
try acting out what you already have written. sometimes an idea comes to me if i do that. I'm not going to promise it will work but it's worth a try.
';I'm not altogether certain what writer's block is...'; (Block, 96)





He goes on to say that it seems to be the *inability* to write *anything* no matter how hard one tries. (I've always been able to write something with, typically, minimal effort.) It's in a chapter called Time Out in the book I cited below. Strangely enough it comes right after a chapter about procrastination.





I've never bought into the concept of writer's block. I've used it as an excuse on more than one occasion, but I've never believed I had it. It's just convenient to say it when you aren't writing, at least that's my experience.





(I'll spare you my philosophy on what ';writer's block'; is for another day, and more appropriate question!)





Here's my fallback for when I just don't seem to have the words. I pick up one of my writing books. Stein on Writing, The Art of Fiction, Self-Editing for Fiction Writer's, any of them, I keep them right at my desk along with several other reference books. I pick one out and I sit in front of my computer and I read it. Myabe I'll pick a chapter somewhere in the middle, or start from the beginning, but I don't leave my seat.





The reason I go with a writing manual, as opposed to fiction, is because I'm supposed to be *writing*. I do my *reading* at another time in the day, so I compromise by *reading about writing*. What's this do? It makes me *think* about *writing*. Not about my story, or why I'm stuck or whatever excuse I've given myself to not be sculpting sentences on a page, but about the act of writing. And inevitably, usually in no time at all, I've become hooked on some concept or technique or symbol, etc that I haven't thought about since the last time I picked up this book and I immediately go to work on using whatever concept sparked me. That's why I stay at my seat. so I'm perched and ready. (I learned that trick doing SKTs in Iraq, you always keep your eye on the sight and your finger on the trigger, so that you're ready. It worked then, and it works now. Though, I have to admit it's much less stressful now! LOL)





Sometimes I'm reminded of something I did poorly four chapters ago, and there's no better time then the present to rewrite it! Sometimes it's something I can put to use right now on the next sentence, or sometimes it's something that will be great for this other idea I have so I open a fresh page and start on something new. But it always leads me back to writing.





I find that writer's block is an excuse I'll willingly hide behind for months if I give myself the option. So I try to never use the phrase (Unless it's pertains to school, in which case, as far as my instructors are concerned, I'm in a permenant state of writer's block! LOL). You don't need gimmicks, or check lists, or little, overpriced ';inspiration'; stickers. All you ever need is ';something to write with and somthing to write on.'; (251)