The... CREATIVE 'BLOCK' - What to do when the new ideas do not flow

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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one of the hardest parts of making these  English videos is keeping it fresh and new  
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sometimes it's hard to do new things especially  when you've been doing it for as long as I have  
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and yes we are talking over 17 years can you  believe it I've been here on YouTube doing this  
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and it is very hard to come up with new  ideas maybe sometimes especially if you are  
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a creative type and I'm sure there are many  creative types out there artists musicians  
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composers writers perhaps you are a person who  likes to make your own YouTube videos like me  
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sometimes you might hit a point where you can't  think of anything new we call that writer's block  
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or you might describe it as a creative block  sometimes I have it I wake up in the morning  
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and I have absolutely no idea what I'm going to  do creatively for the rest of the day and then  
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a couple of days later suddenly my head becomes  filled with lots and lots of wonderful ideas and  
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that is it you see that is the way creativity  often works sometimes you have lots of things  
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going around in your head that you want to try  and then suddenly you have nothing you have  
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nothing at all you become blank in fact for me in  the past when I used to write very long Scripts  
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one of the most frightening things you  can ever come across is blank screen  
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maybe you have a new word document open in front  of you and all there is on the screen is that  
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flashing cursor waiting to be fed all of  those wonderful new sentences meanwhile I'm  
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sitting there in front of the computer without a  single clue in my head I have absolutely nothing  
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so if you are the type of person who is creative  don't worry if sometimes you have no new ideas  
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one of the things that I was once recommended  to do by YouTube was to go back and have a look  
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at some of the things I've done in the past  and maybe revisit them so that is something  
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I suppose I could do and maybe from time to time  I will do that so if you are a person who likes  
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creating things don't worry now and again he will  run out of ideas but the good news is slowly but  
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surely new ideas will appear in fact quite  often they will pop into your head like magic
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