From the article: Top 10 Tips for Overcoming Writer's Block
Writer's block afflicts almost all of us at some time or another, and different strategies will work at different times in our writing lives. What's worked for you? Share Your Solutions
to guest leya
- you shouldn't worry about what others think. eventually, you'll have to, but right now, try to please yourself and only yourself. don't think about big vocabulary. have you ever read junie b. jones? kindergarten vocab, but great books that have done well. when you write, write it all, and then go back to see if it can be improved. don't over think everything. if you love to write, you can accomplish so much--you just have to try!
- —Guest evac
Couple other ways.
- I'm more of a fanfiction writer, but I noticed carrying around a pen and a small note pad everywhere does wonders. When I have my note pad, random moments of inspration pop up, whereas if I didn't have that note pad those ideas would be forgotten later in the midst of school. I also tend to have a piece of paper or a pen/penil laying around somewhere at any given moment. In my room, I hardly have to get up to reach a paper to spill down ideas. LOL. Also, you should hang around the era you want your story based on. Common sense. Like for a fanfiction writer... Gathering ideas for Silent Hill. Watch the movie, google images, play the games. Even for Anime it is important to gather a precise measure of the character's actions and personality. If you can't do that... What would be the point in even writing it? Characters need a structure...Their own form. That is what makes them comparable and interesting.
- —Guest Kilee Smith
Coming farther
- I saw what this arcticle said about loving to write. It's in my blood--I was in a creative writing class of a college level in junior high. I love to write, sure, but i hate writer's block. I always go to a social community event to escape it. The variety of people helps, I think.
- —Guest Catalina mochez
Stop. And Start Fresh Again
- Sometimes when I write, I get too excited to develop all ideas that comes to my mind that I push myself too much even when I couldn't express my ideas clearly anymore. When this happens, I try to stop. Sometimes I listen to music, read my favorite book, talk to a friend, go out and take pictures, or sleep and forget the project I am currently working on. When I feel that I am ready, I go back to it and start with a fresh, clear mind.
- —Guest Jana
Stimulate the creativity
- Much like a cold, a take preventative to writer's block - breaks. I like JK Rowling's idea of minesweeper every dozen pages (hour of writing) or so, so I do that. It's a break but it keeps the mind going unlike social media or tv breaks. I also go running, or any form of cadio exercise because it sends blood to muscles that writing doesn't. Piano music is best for me WHEN I write but when I'm stuck or taking a break, I put on what I would listen to in the car, etc, just to get some different sources in my ears. As mentioned previously on here...go out and do something completely different. If possible go do what you're trying to get your character or plot to do, get first-hand experience. Most importantly, keep writing, every day if you can. I don't like to look at writing as a job or something that's manufactured, but sometimes you really do have to just hammer out a thousand words and fix it all later.
- —Guest DawgWriter
beat the block
- when we sit to write ideas run away.when we are busy with mundane ideas start emerging.its that moment we have to go to desk and at least put down the points and visit back those points when we think of seriously writing .that helps to catch the idea at its raw level and when we are again in our mundane work we keep on elaborating the points.this way actually you are enjoying your boring routine work.
- —Guest dr.kalpana
Time is running out
- I have so many fears causing my writer's block.i'm very critical about my work and sometimes i make myself believe that others will find my writing uninteresting.i also fear that as i get older the creative streak in me gets blunt.now i've resolved to write.anything and everything without second guessing myself.i owe it to myself and my prospective readers that i put in my best and produce results¤
- —Guest Mä sage
Still trying to overcome the block
- I have been writing technical articles since the early 1970s regarding my interests outside of my "day job" which has no connection with my writing. Then suddenly in 2006 I found that I could not write any more. Well, not quite true. I can actually start writing, get party-way through (maybe one page, maybe 20 pages) and then I hit a brick wall and I have no idea what to say next. I have tried taking breaks, switching to another subject (I have about 20 unfinished pieces!), walking, music, reading, everything. But I come back to writing and ..... I am still completely stuck. I have tried setting deadlines and a target of X words per day. It is not that I have lost interest in the subjects that I am writing about, I have simply lost the way to put everything down in an orderly manner with clear explanations. Reading through the previous comments on here it seems that everyone is a writer of fiction, which I am not. But the writer's block still exists for me.
- —PhillipSClark
writer's block
- You can overcome writer's block by taking your mind off things and take a nice vacation or become one with peace and nature. Then all those ideas will come back flowing in.
- —Guest Anonymous
Unblocking a Writer's Block
- I never used to get writer's blocks. But now that I have become more careful about my work and learned more about writing, it has finally hit me hard. Now I get them every chapter I am on in this story I'm writing. When in this time period, I feel like I just can't carry on, that I should just drop the project. But I have come up with a few things to keep me occupied in writing. When I'm stuck on something, I skip ahead. I have a whole load of ideas for a story; so when I want to, I'll make a new document and write on a part of a story that won't happen until much later, or it could be something that isn't even part of the story at all but still involves your characters; kind of for fun. I personally call it Scrapping, because you're writing small Scraps. Another thing that I do to help me overcome a Writer's Block is to go back and read some of my previous works and the Chapters that I already wrote. It reminds me why I started writing that story in the first place...and I smile.
- —Guest A.J.
Do Something About It
- Writers block isn't so much the fact that I can't write but rather that I don't want too. I over think the story, scene etc. And I just don't write because I’m busy thinking that it's no good or this sentence makes no sense or any number of excuses I can come up with so I don’t end up writing anything. I procrastinate and do something else because it’s easier. So to overcome this I have my main character yell at me for leaving them. I pretend that I really want to write even if I don't and ignore all 999 spelling errors. I just write and even if I delete it the point is I wrote and tomorrow I'll do the same thing. Don't stand there thinking about how you can't write. Go out for a walk, listen to music, find your muse but then come back and write. Write. Write. Because in the end that's the only way you can finish your prose. By writing it. So stop reading articles about how to get over writers block, that's just avoiding writing. Open that word document, find your pen and write.
- —Guest Nicole
Method Writing
- I use method writing. I become whoever it is I am writing. I do what they do, to the extent that I can. I think the way they would think when I lose my train of thought. I put myself in situations and figure out how they would get out of it. It always helps to pull myself back in and continue where I left off. Granted it does nothing for me in the 'real world' but who wants to stay in that one? Method writing, best idea ever, as long as you don't lose your mind doing it.
- —Guest Jar
My Solution
- When I get writer's block I box. It doesn't have to be with people, just practice punching and kicking.
- —HyperReality
Summary Posts
- When I have a nasty case of bloggage (blogger's writer's block) I turn to one strategy that works well for me. Writing a Summary Post With Deep Links is a great way to not only create a quick post, but also is a very effective tool for growing your site. It also can get those creative juices flowing!
- —BloggingVitals
Writer's Block
- Music, Plot Jumping, Full-out Story Jumping... All methods I agree with. But One of the best ways I've found to overcome writer's block is to meet new people. Strangers are amazing eye-openers. Just sit down to have some coffee near about anywhere and someone is going to need to talk. You usually learn their life story... It'll either ease the stress (of writer's block) or stimulate new characters.
- —Guest ChunkeeOne
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