Comments on: Writer’s Block – and One Trick to Beat It

By: 201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity | Violet Thunderstorms

201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity | Violet Thunderstorms — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 03:45:50 +0000

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Creativity is like sex | blogdeunamona — Mon, 16 May 2011 07:24:29 +0000

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By: Do You Need External Or Internal Approval? | Write to Done

Do You Need External Or Internal Approval? | Write to Done — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 22:54:58 +0000

[...] validation and start getting that sense of approval from within, I believe you can seriously smash through writer’s block and even move forward to create a mental environment where you can perform easily, well and with [...]

By: Paul Murphy

Paul Murphy — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:38:34 +0000

Thanks for sharing this experience of yours with us James. It’s great to know that great writers too suffer writer’s block.

By: Find Your Writing Voice

Find Your Writing Voice — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 14:19:30 +0000

[...] also read a post where he talked about writer’s block. He said he realized that he had writer’s block because he was trying to write instead of just [...]

By: How to find your writing voice | Men With Pens

How to find your writing voice | Men With Pens — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:02:05 +0000

[...] Forget that. You’re not here to impress anyone – and you shouldn’t be trying to either. That’s just a fast train to writer’s block. [...]

By: Joe Bulger

Joe Bulger — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:12:33 +0000

Thanks James. I’m still laughing about “stories that made kittens cry…”

When I don’t want to write, I enjoy commenting on other blogs. Then it doesn’t feel like it’s my newborn baby being judged in a beauty contest. But then again, I’ve never faced the REAL pressure of being a writer for a living.

Joe

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:49:12 +0000

I had a recent crazy time where I didn’t have any inspiration to write and had nothing to say. I just kept reading blogs posts and doing my normal things and then one day I had a sudden burst of energy and ideas came flowing into my brain from out of no where.

My “secret” is that when ideas hit, write them down. ALL of them. Seriously. That way when you’re stuck you always have something to refer back to. It’s worth it and I’ve used this from time to time and it’s truly helped me.

By: 201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity | Write to Done

201 Ways to Arouse Your Creativity | Write to Done — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:31:07 +0000

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By: David OCT

David OCT — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:24:17 +0000

Nice post. I like honesty among writers as it is so easy, given our fragile egos, to lie.

Having written professionally all my life I recognise all the symptoms you write of having suffered the same. As you identify, the answer is not to question or doubt your ability – remember you have been writing for years so you can write – but to take the walking as opposed to the talking cure. Walk away. Give yourself a break. I used to have a drink or five till I quit, not a remedy I’d now recommend but it did the trick.
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