Now for the last part to help you get over writer's block.
(click to few the video)4. Forget the first sentence: You can sweat over that all-important one-liner when you've finished your piece. Skip It! Go for the middle or even the end. Start wherever you can. Chances are, when you read it over, the first line will be blinking its little neon lights at you from the depths of your composition.
5. Concentration: This is a hard one. Life throws us so many curve balls. How about thinking about your writing time as a little vacation from all those annoying worries. Banish them! Create a space, perhaps even a physical one, where nothing exists except the single present moment. If one of those irritating worries gets by you, stomp on it like you would an ugly bug! Literally throw it on the floor and stomp on it. If it is more than one do it with each of them one at a time. Then go back to work.
6. Stop procrastinating: Write an outline. Keep your research notes within sight. Use someone Else's writing to get going. Babble incoherently on paper or on the computer if you have to.
Just do it! ( I know, I stole that line from something.) Tack up anything that could possibly help you to get going: note, outlines, pictures of your grandmother. Put the cookie you will be allowed to eat when you finish your first draft within sight, but out of reach. Then pick up the some type of writing that you need to write, and read it. Then read it again. Soon, trust me, the fear will slowly fade away. As soon as it does, grab your keyboard and get writing!
Now that you have some things that you can do to help you to get over writer's block. Now go to work and write.
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6 comments:
Hi Dan & Deanna,
Your series on Writer's Block has really been interesting....definitely thought provoking.
I really thought the cookie idea was interesting! That will probably work!
Thanks for all your hard work!
Pete Baca
The Car Enthusiast Online
hi Deanna and Dan .. thanks for that .. as the video says - change your brain .. do something different take your mind off it.
A lot of the writers try to plan ahead .. so they've always got something in reserve to use .. or they use an autobiographical note .. something that's quick and easy and not necessarily quite so specific to your blog
I have cuttings and pieces I've found that interest me .. so have a ton of stuff - just need to sort it out somehow .. then I can correlate with my blog.
I think perhaps the disadvantage that some people, who do suffere from writer's block, is that they've restricted their blog topic to too narrow a field .. the topic could still be the same - but they could have different themes?
Good luck to everyone
Hilary Melton-Butcher
Positive Letters
Peter, the cookie works here every time. Glad that you liked this. Hope that it has been helpful.
Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"
Hilary, thank you fro your comments. You have very valid points. The last point about themes. Hugo and Roxanne have done a great job with that.
Dan and Deanna "Marketing Unscrambled"
Hi Deanna & Dan
You know I love the "Just Do It!" I believe it is better to get started and find your way, than to sit around to think of a way.
THanks for sharing
Giovanna Garcia
Imperfect Action is better than No Action
Giovanna, It is better to just do it and get started then sit around. Thank you for your comments.
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