How to Eliminate Writer's Block

I get questions about writer's block all the time.

I have a bit of a different theory about writer's block. My main belief is that writer's block does not have to happen.

2 main sources of writer's block

I have found that there are two very powerful yet seldom talked about causes of writers block:

1. Writers get writer's block because they expect to get writer's block. Somehow it has gotten into the "common knowledge" that writers get writer's block. And if you expect to get something, you are much more likely to get it.

2. Writer's get writer's block because they see it as some kind of badge of honor. It sounds quite silly, and it is quite real. Some people believe that once they have come down with writer's block then they have arrived as a writer.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Who else would like to never get writer's block?

I've never had writer's block and expect I never will. As I tell my students, members and mentees, there is a simple technique I have used over the years that has allowed me to blow away the notion of writer's block.

I simply work on more than one article at a time. If the words are not flowing with one article, I just move to another one. What I have learned is that the words are going to flow for one of those babies, and thus, no writer's block.

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SA - I second that!

|82.209.151.xxx |2009-02-15 11:49:27

I completely agree. I would like to consider myself a writer and I have never
gotten writer's block. I can sometimes get stuck, like you mentioned, but then I
move on to another draft I've written. The only problem I've ever gotten is that
I know where the story is leading too, I just don't know how to get there.
Because I believe, if you do write a story, you should always have a beginnning
and an end. I can never write a story if I don't know how it's going to end.

PennySue - Writer's Block

|70.161.175.xxx |2009-03-20 22:03:26

Good information regarding writer's block. We do not set out to run into
writer's block, we just run into it from time to time.

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FantasyWriter

|71.61.146.xxx |2009-05-04 01:31:58

I actually don't agree. I generally have three things that I'm working on at one
time (any more than that gets overwhelming) and there have been times when I've
been stuck on all three. I don't want to get writers block. I don't expect it,
either. But it has happened. I think that writer's block should never be
something that lasts for a long time or prevents you from finishing a story. I
think there are times when you need to sit down and think about what's going to
happen--like this morning, when I started thinking about a book I was writing,
where the last chapter wasn't working, and then I realized that I didn't need
the last chapter at all.
I don't beleive that you can comepletly avoid
writer's block by not expecting it, although you can get less.