maybe they are just faking writer's block to get attention

I feel like this is directed at me.

never experienced it. you only ever experience it if you are a big fake. you get over it by not being a bad and unproductive musician

A lot of fakes in this thread.

If you're looking for a super quick fix, try writing on shitty headphones/speakers. It's easier to focus on the music when you're not worrying about the sounds you're using. Some of my best songs were originally written by holding a gameboy to the side of my head whenever I wanted to listen to what I was working on.

Totally agreed with this. I write everything (well, every non hardware chiptune) in raw MIDI. If it sounds good there, it'll sound great however you dress it up later.

anyone who's into writing music hits a road block now and again. it happens.

stopping at a road block is the perfect opportunity to turn your engine off and pick your game boy up to make some music so i dont get what your point is at all

You could always try Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies:http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Ed1.htmlThey'll at least get you to think a little more sideways about whatever you're trying to overcome.

This is a really cool find, kudos for posting.

never experienced it. you only ever experience it if you are a big fake. you get over it by not being a bad and unproductive musician

anyone who's into writing music hits a road block now and again. it happens.

I always start songs then get to a point where there's nothing else to add (only a few patterns in). I keep opening my tracker listening and listening and listening.... Now I'm sick of what I made and want to scrap it. But I really enjoyed what I had before and thought it was gonna go somewhere. But the problem is I can't seem to figure out how the hell it's supposed to keep going. I guess they call it writers block. What do you do? Work on another song and have that one queued to work on later? Wait it out for way longer then just a few hours or a few days?

i'll start lots of songs using (whatever) program and then run out of ideas but I will keep them stashed away and come back to it another time. that always helps. i may come back to a song many months later and finish it off. i won't delete them. losing music sucks..even if it is unfinished or what you think at the time is 'meh'. you never know when you might need it.

http://www.rtqe.net/ObliqueStrategies/Ed1.html

They'll at least get you to think a little more sideways about whatever you're trying to overcome.

If you're looking for a super quick fix, try writing on shitty headphones/speakers. It's easier to focus on the music when you're not worrying about the sounds you're using. Some of my best songs were originally written by holding a gameboy to the side of my head whenever I wanted to listen to what I was working on.

Yeah this is one reason I like writing zxbeeper music in beepola. There's not a whole lot of control over the sound design (depending on the engine), so you just have to go with what you got and forget about everything but the composition.

If you're looking for a super quick fix, try writing on shitty headphones/speakers. It's easier to focus on the music when you're not worrying about the sounds you're using. Some of my best songs were originally written by holding a gameboy to the side of my head whenever I wanted to listen to what I was working on.

Only gear I got is shitty headphones and speakers.

One of the main reasons I stopped doing hip-hop in FL.

Need monitors for all that. Doesn't seem necessary for what I'm doing now though.