Saturday, December 1, 2012
Five Ways to Beat Writer's Block
Here are five tips to curtail writer's block:
1. Write about the pen or pencil you are holding. This works
especially well if you get a souvenir pen from a tourist area with
peices that slide around inside. Now you have both the slider and the
tourist location to write about!
2. Use a Scripture study guidebook to give you a writing prompt, and
write your response to it.
3. Write a little about the last book you read: a book review or a
contemplation.
4. Write an unsent letter to a friend. Even better, write an unsent
letter to an enemy [real or imagined.]
5. Write a letter to a (real or imagined) confessor: write about
what has gone wrong in your life.
Hopefully, I can do more of these types entries in the days coming up,
also.
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Another way to beat writer's block is when you're desperately procrastinating doing something else that also needs to be done. I find I'm much more prolific in working on my novel when I have a blog post I want to get done, and vice versa. And not wanting to clean the bathroom does wonders for one's creativity.
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