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Amy-Strange

(854 posts)
Fri Nov 1, 2019, 01:25 PM Nov 2019

Writer's block and situational hypnosis are both real [View all]

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that said, I usually just smoke a bowl, and like Carl Sagan, I'd have more ideas, than time to write them.

Situational hypnosis is my term for a very weird phenomenon that I've encountered while writing my three novels.

I'm sure other writers have experienced this, but what happens is when I'm having a problem writing through a situation, I then put myself into that situation and write what happens next, one sentence at a time.

After I'm done, finding myself at home is shocking, but only for a second.

It's like I've hypnotized myself into being in that situation myself and coming out of it is like awaking from hypnosis?

Thoughts anyone?

Dave,
the Real AmyStrange,
dug.amystrange.org

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