Write the Classics

You've got writers block. There's nothing else that matters. Ideas constantly flow through your mind. You create and destroy millions of new worlds every waking moment. Your dreams are haunted by the characters and stories you want to tell. But you sit down at your computer, and... nothing. You despair. You argue with yourself, you will yourself to write you force yourself, you beg yourself, but nothing works. You sit in tortured silence. All you desire is to hear the click clack of your fingers racing across the keyboard as they struggle to keep up with the ideas racing through your mind. The characters you will fall in love with the characters you will part with and the relationships between them taunt you just out of reach. What a waking nightmare it is for you, a writer to be unable to write. I know. I've been there with you, in the doldrums. I've found the only solution that works. But it's the most annoying suggestion. Everybody tells you, to overcome writers block, you must write. You sneer in derision, if you could write you wouldn't have writers block. Today, you may leap in joy, because through trial and error, through luck and circumstance I have found the solution. Type the classics. Take inspiration from the great writers who have gone before you, they all struggled with this affliction. When you can't write your own words, write theirs. You are an artist. Good artists copy, great artists steal. All you have to do is write what you see. That's it. It's that simple. You can choose your poison; poetry, speech, novel and more. Then write. Write until you are physically incapable. Then write some more. Eventually you will write your own. And it will be bliss. Now pick your classic above and let inspiration move you.