Ways Of Dealing With Writers Block
Writers block, it’s something that any author will have. No matter what they have to write, it will attack them at one point or another while working. It’s that point when you sit staring at the paper, nothing coming out. Or that you are sitting at the computer, hands on keyboard, but words just won’t get there.
Almost as if your brain isn’t communicating with your body somehow. Writing isn’t the easiest thing to do in the world, and when that block comes up. Well you might as forget about it for a while. All the good author’s have had problems with it before, and they will again.
Buying and using a book that contains writing prompts may help free up the mind a bit. However, if you’re really in a deep problem of writers block, it may not help. Try writing about anything and everything that you can think of.
Unfortunately no matter how many prompts you do or days you write. Guess what, you will still at times hit that brick wall. The one where you stare off into space and can’t think of one single thing to place down. Nothing is going to come to no matter how hard you try.
Listen to music, read, watch a movie, go out and head to the beach. It won’t matter but just get away from sitting and staring as nothing comes to you. It will only frustrate you more than what you already are at this point.
If you want to try and force yourself on those days to try and do a prompt, have at it. But it can possibly make the problem even worse. So instead just get up and do anything else but write.
Surely you won’t have it for the rest of your life. Once it’s gone get back up and do it all again!
Tom Binns is creativity coaching at his website.
