Writing Advice - Writer's Block

 Writer’s Block? No more excuses!

The ever-dreaded writer’s block may have you staring at a blank page but that is no excuse to not write. Our brains are like any other part of our body, they need exercise and repetitive use to hone into better tools. If you sat to write but nothing comes to you don’t give up; try one of these alternatives. You may not write anything directly toward the work you are currently working on you will find that you loosened up your brain enough so that beginning work the next day may come a little bit more easily.

• You should be keeping a notebook of ideas, observations, and questions, this is a good time to pull it out and maybe write a conversation around a line you overheard and found interesting or write a character description on why a person has a unique trait you observed and added to your notebook.
• In the same, above mentioned, notebook I write down what if... ideas as they come to me. If you do the same pick two at random and write a micro-story based on the two what ifs... You will find this gets your imagination muscles going trying to work out the way to connect them.
• Search the internet for “writing prompts” and follow the directions there.
• Edit a previous work. For me this is my least favorite activity so, by taking these writer block days, I am forced to think about the older writing and make it better since obviously ideas of my current work won’t be in the way anyways.