Ways to Beat Writers Block

A few helpful and amusing tips and tricks to get you from staring at the page wondering what comes next to having your words flowing onto it.

If you haven’t experienced this before I hope you never have to, but writer's block is essentially being excited to write, making a cup of coffee, sitting down to write, and then staring at the blank page for five hours without putting a single word onto the page.

This says nothing about your ability to write, we all experience it at some point. It can be due to stress or just outside factors keeping the words from making it from our minds to our keyboards.

Well, this really depends on you and your process, but to help you out of your stump I’ve made a list of a few I find helpful that you can try for yourself to get your hands moving along the keys once again. Whether you write fiction or non-fiction one of these might be just the thing you need.

A little weird of a tip as we mainly rely on ourselves and the world around us for our inspiration, but sometimes we all need a little push. When I was in a complete bind and had no idea what to write my next book about I started asking my boyfriend about any book ideas he had floating around in his head that he wanted me to write for him.

He came up with the initial concept and then my imagination and journalistic nature took over and I asked him any questions I could think of. By the end of my bombardment of his creative nature, I had a wonderful outline I could run with and the creative spark to fill in the blanks.

This also gave me the added support of having someone ask me every few days, “Did you finish that book yet?” in his excitement to see the finished project he constantly reminds me to be writing instead of binge-watching some TV show again.

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