Thread: How do you deal with artists' block?

Originally Posted by Woofness

I find that is less of an unblock more of a sidetrack. Weed usually produces a very distinctive sort of art/music/writing. On the whole it tends to be unproductive, attempting to put the ideas down whilst stoned is impractical and trying to replicate them afterwords is a waste of time.

I think KT is pretty right on about the notebook. Get fedged up and start writing every little senseless thought. When you return to sobriety look through your notebook and try to figure out what it was that you were writing about exactly, because it usually requires a pretty good bit of imagination and creativity to make sense of it. After that your mind should be in a creative state already, and you can either use snippets of what you had previously put into your notebook or just go with new ideas that they may have inspired.

It's always helped me personally.

Originally Posted by Woofness

I find that is less of an unblock more of a sidetrack. Weed usually produces a very distinctive sort of art/music/writing. On the whole it tends to be unproductive, attempting to put the ideas down whilst stoned is impractical and trying to replicate them afterwords is a waste of time.

A lot of stoners nowadays seem to think that weed brings out the greatest artist potential but I gotta disagree. People say that the Beatles, The Doors, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and plenty of others were geniuses because they got stoned. I believe they just happened to geniuses who got stoned.

Inspiration can be sparked at any time and might be easier if your relaxed and stoned, but that doesn't make it genius. It's just the start.