“You know, today, I am going to talk about….”

“It is well known in anime circles that…”

“Today, I bought some of the most …”

And then you get stuck, not knowing how to continue. No matter how much you try to squeeze an anime entry out of your wordpress template or whatever you use to blog. No anime episodes are out, you have not written in a week. Your hand itches to write yet nothing comes out. Despair resumes in the dark life of an anime blogger that cannot conjure the magic to write up an entry.

What do you do to find that creativity?

This is in fact an entry I always wanted to write, considering how crazy I can get when I write. However, there are periods when people do get stuck with writing, not knowing what to do. Some called this situation burnout, lack of creativity or perhaps the inability to fill T.H.A.T space with any form of writing. However, no fear, use the Impz’s quick fix ways to fill T.H.A.T space. Yes, as you can tell, this is in fact a living example of how I attempt to fill this space of sorts.

No, it’s not an attempt to make a joke. Well, perhaps. I am sure Kotono of Saint October will forgive me.

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1. Find it in this blog. Or that blog?

Man, it’s so hard to find nice entries on the net…Tired

Go read other people’s blogs. I generally use that for my first method of trying to squeeze something out from my head when I need to fill this space. For example, the inspiration to write this entry came from Mike in AnimeOtaku and a 9rules blog. Yes, it has absolutely no relationship to this entry whatsoever. However, who ever said that creativity is a linear form. In fact, it will always be the best when you go read something that you never really read too much. You will realize and absorb a bit of the imagination and idea from other bloggers. Well, do not ip block your anime blogs now, just because I revealed this.

At least that means your blog has tons of creativity for me to steal.

Right? Don’t ban me for stealing ideas sometimes?

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2. Relax and chill out

Sleep is the best form of relaxation. Trust me on that.

Yes, this is the word. Most bloggers tend to over stress themselves when they cannot conjure an entry and for those who enjoy writing, you are usually not stressed when you write an entry. When you find that you are having a lot of pain trying to write it, it really means that you are getting overly stressed in trying to do it. Take a break, do something relaxing that is good. Reading a book helps. Just for your information, reading doujinshi of the erotic nature usually stimulates you too much for your own good. I advice against assuming such a genre of books as a relaxing activity. People generally write best when they are relaxed and in a good frame of mind. However, it might be an assumption but I highly doubt any anime blogger considers blogging to be work, no?

So you do not believe me and continue to write even though you are totally panicky. Trust me, whatever comes out looks like a constipated version and rundown combination version of Soul Link and Crescent love. Trust me, it is not pretty when something like that appears to the net. Well, in a rather warped way, you can be infamous for writing the best piece of junk.

Junk can be great, just ask Suigintou. She’s hot.

Just not writing junk (no pun intended).

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3. Listen to anime music and correlate

Music is the mother of creativity. I C H I G O GO, ichigo girls go!

Anime music tends to be generally more evoking in terms of emotions as good anime songs often bring you to a trance of relaxation. As you listen to anime music, you are also brought into the mood of anime as well, as you start to relate anime music with posts that you will like to write. For example, listening to Aria makes me feel relaxed, then I realize it is feel-good. Then i will write an article about anime that makes you feel good and what are the important steps to creating that image in a viewer.

See? Co-relation always helps to write something. Anything can appear from co-relation but music tends to invoke it without forcing it down your throat since it is such a passive activity, just like radio. Podcasts, well, I don’t dig that too much.

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4. Watch anime

Watch the right anime for inspiration. Yep.

Anime is god, if not, why are we watching it in the first place. Well, other than the fact that I do not honestly regard Haruhi Suzumiya to be the true creator of our living world, I believe that anime takes up a good portion of our life, constructing us and building us up while we speak. Honestly, which medium of art can create endless possibilities that cannot be re-conjured by real actors and actresses. This is amazing stuff and it is sad that anime is regarded as child’s play, because it is not. I always hate it when people tell me to grow up and watch something different. Does watching drama make you more of an adult then? That is utter rubbish.

Back after happily digressing over a topic that can cover a whole post on its own, I will like to say that anime as a form of art has boundless creativity. Watching it often moves people, as long as you are watching the right show and not some series that can evoke totally nothing and bores you to sleep. For that, I do recommend Zettai Shounen because it is perhaps a series that can lull you to sleep with 2 episodes. That will seriously hurt you as an anime blogger, especially your insanity levels since it did cause me to pull my hair from the sheer boredom.

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5. Talk to fellow bloggers

Find a mind twin to talk to. Good if she is also a meido loli. Woot.

Talking is the starting of connection. Without communication, nothing can occur. If I cannot communicate to the readers out there properly, no one will read the blog. Hence, it is very useful to start talking to your fellow anime bloggers. Since they are more attuned to writing than most normal non-blogger people are in the genre of writing, they will often slip out with words of wisdom that can be the start of a magical post that can be conjured. In fact, this blog entry came from one of the IRC channel chats when Lupus said that he had no idea what to write and in my mind, I started thinking.

“What if I write such an entry out? That will be great!”

And hence it appears as such an article.

You will never know what to write until you interact. That is why a community, one that is greatly attuned to anime, can give you the greatest answers if you only ask. It is that simple and yet this is one way that most people never think of. Surprising, isn’t it?

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