500 Words

So, I saw this tweet, I think it was @kampungfiksi. He tweeted, “cobalah untuk menulis 500 kata per hari. #writersblock”, which translates in English as “try to write 500 words per day.” He was discussing about writer’s block, how to avoid it and just keep on sharpen up the knives of creativity inside the brain.

And I’m planning to do just that. Well, not sure if it’s going to be EVERY day though, because I have some busy days, lazy days, and busy to be lazy days (which are just the worse version of the latter). But hey, I’m just a human. A unique-and-special-in-my-own-way human. ^^

NOW! I’m quite a bit confused with the topic. I mean, if I am going to write 500 words in most of my days from this point in space and time forward, then I’ll have to come up with a new topic, new idea, every time I write.

I do have several solutions to this: (a) Observation. This involves my eyes, ears and smell (probably touch too) to work together, which will hopefully spawn inspirations. I can see people, nature, dogs, cats, the rains, droplets of water fall off the edge of a roof, a girl in the mining engineering, her. I can also hear the people’s dialogue, my friend’s words, a lecture in a class, or a simple wind passing by.

(b) Research. This one mostly involves the scientific side of me. I’d search things like black hole singularity, dyson spheres, quasars, galaxy clusters, and every cosmic phenomenon that always manage to seize my amazement. And these researches keep on increasing the height of my inspiration pile regarding sci-fi stories. Unfortunately, they don’t evolve. They can’t. They stay in that form for an indefinite length of time. Waiting for me to do something to them that’ll make them a fully grown story.

(c) Read. Need I to say more? While I’m on this, last month, a friend of mine suggested that he and I, each month with a budget ranging from 100K to 150K, we’d go to Banjarmasin and hunt for books, novels, to help increasing our writing skills. It was a great suggestion, and I immediately concurred. My current #maybooks are Long Distance Hearts, Antologi Rasa, Dunia Tanpa Sekolah, Jokowi Biography, Ngawur Karena Benar and Dunia Tanpa Sekolah. I’m planning to have Dewi ‘Dee’ Lestari’s novels, the Partikel series, as the #junebooks.

I think that’s about it. Couldn’t really think of any solutions anymore, especially when overcoming my acute laziness. I think it’s reached the final stages of being the worst -____-. If of course you have more solutions, comment below, because it’d be extremely helpful if you do. (: