Three Ways To Obliterate Writer’s Block
The Story: There’s no such thing as writer’s block; there’s only a state called “not writing”.
The Point: Use these tested methods to dissolve writer’s block instantly.
The Resource: The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
What we call “writer’s block” is merely resistance to writing. Three ways you can dissolve this resistance:
- Sit down and write. Anything.
- Use one of the 3 ways to change your state… focus, physiology, or language.
- Write about why you’re not writing.
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Hey Ray,
In this little lesson you just nailed Sir Issac Newton’s first law of motion:
“An object in motion will tend to stay in motion and an object at rest will remain at rest unless acted upon by an imbalancing force.”
I like your bottom line…Do whatever you must to get in “writing” motion, and you will stay in motion - it’s law…
Thanks,
That’s a beautiful way of summarizing the issue - thanks Mark, for stopping by.
The journey to 1000 words, starts with one first word.
When I find that i’m worried about finding the right words and can’t find any words, I stop worring about anything. I don’t care about form, structure, spelling, punctuation NOTHING. I just do a brain dump of any fragments of thoughts that come to me. Before long I’ll have a pretty good outline that I can come back to, flesh out and clean up.