Writer’s Block and the Tooth Fairy.  These are two things I don’t believe in.  Sure, there is evidence to support the existence of both—that dollar bill under your pillow replacing the tooth you’d left there the night before, that daunting blank page where your Oscar-winning script should be.  I don’t remember how I figured out that the Tooth Fairy was actually my mom—I think I finally noticed that the dollar bills always smelled exactly like her purse, that particular blend of Trident gum, Charli perfume spray and leather.  The evidence was too strong. 

I think it was the first day of TheFilmSchool’s Warren Etheredge’s class ‘Such a Character’ that he raised the idea that Writer’s Block doesn’t exist.  I initially bristled against this claim—Writer’s Block is such a great excuse!  Finally, the evidence against Writer’s Block came to me in the form of a crime report in the ‘On The Record’ section of a daily published in Sequim, WA.  Under ‘disturbances/suspicious’ for April 20th and 21^st:  “Someone left a jar of salamanders, W.Washington St.”,  “Red Toyota ran over duck, E. Cedar St.” and “People in car in parking lot, been there for a week, Hooker Road.”  Extrapolate on THAT!

 

Here is a list of blogs and sites of the bizarre that should be food for inspiration, if not for your next great script, at least for a writing exercise to get the ball rolling. Emphasis on INSPIRATION as, remember, these are real stories about real people!  Enjoy!

 

This is the best…this magazine specializes in notes, photos, grocery lists, etc., that people find on the street and send in.  The ‘Find of the Day’ is a source of endless entertainment and wonder:

http://www.foundmagazine.com/

 

For seriously strange news tidbits from around the world:

http://bizarrenews.org/

 

Need inspiration for a crime drama?  File this link under the category of you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up!

http://discovery.blogs.com/bizarre/

 

This one has a list of what they call ‘Lunatic Blogs’, in other words, endless ongoing craziness available at this link:

http://www.theweirdcrap.com/

 

Yeesh…some of these stories are not for the faint of heart.  This site is for the most intense battles you find yourself fighting with Writer’s Block:

http://www.thatsweird.net/

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