Yes, You Too Can Overcome Writer’s Block

Are you somebody who cannot seem to overcome writer’s block? Do you have any projects that are perennially in the parking lot due to a lack of interest in the topic, lack of inspiration or both of the above? Cheer up — it happens to me as well, and I’ve been writing for decades. Writing can often be a case of peaks and valleys; one day you have the Midas Touch, where everything you write turns to gold, however the next day you would find yourself hard-pressed to string even a few words together to form a sentence. Consider the following tips below, if you want to have more peaks than valleys in terms of your writing productivity.

Fishing for Ideas. If you have come to the point where you’ve “tried everything and are all out of ideas”, you may want to do what I do when I get that dreaded case of writer’s block. I get plenty of my ideas when I take a thirty minute brisk walk through my neighborhood. Watching rabbits eating clover, observing colorful roses, and listening to the sweet conversation of cardinals puts me at ease. Relaxation brings out the creativity in me. It sure beats sitting in front of my computer fretting about my work! Find something that brings out the inspiration in you.

Develop an Interest. Writing about something that truly captivates your interest is a much easier task than having to do either one, write about something that bores you to sleep or two, something that is not exactly your area of conversance. You can raise your interest by researching the topic. During those dreaded moments I have to write about baseball, I simply ask my hubby, who is a walking baseball encyclopedia AND proud of it, or I simply go to the library or scour the Internet for information on cars, machinery and other topics I am not familiar with. And once you have done a bit of research, that should at the very least increase your interest in the topic, even by a smidgen, which is better than no interest at all.

Make Your Work Outlined. Write a topic sentence and then “bullet” three or four key points that you want to make. Now that you have your talking points, stratify things further by discussing each point in one paragraph — that would, in summation, be the body of the article you are writing. Create a concluding paragraph, or summation the shorter, the better that would validate the consonance of each point put together, and that, as movie directors would say, would be a take.

Let it Hibernate. I know, that last word probably made you hungry. But this has nothing to do with food and everything to do with your article — what I mean would be letting your article sit for a day or two before you return to it. Who knows, maybe that extra day or two might give you a renewed zest in creating the best possible article. It is quite possible you might notice a few grammatical or spelling errors, some iffy punctuation, improper use of prepositions or several ambiguous passages that you would not have noticed had you went ahead and submitted it immediately.

You can overcome writer’s block by following the above steps. If you find yourself hindered by the “paralysis of analysis” when it comes to selecting a winning topic, then you must step away, regroup, and come back only when sufficiently inspired. Writing with clear purpose and enthusiasm will happen once you put your writer’s block beyond you.

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