Writer's Block - An Effective New Approach To Help You Beat Writer's Block

Typically with writer’s block, it hits when you least expect it, rendering you helpless with no words to say.

It’s almost like some ghost thief swoops in, snatches your last remaining ideas and inspiration and scrapers before you’ve even felt they’re there, leaving you dried up and wordless.

Because writer’s block appears to strike so randomly and unpredictably, it simply makes itself seem more powerful and devious and invincible than it actually is. It builds this enigmatic cloak of deception around itself and claims it can’t be seen, let alone avoided.

But there is a way to better prepare yourself for writer’s block.

Much of the time, our approach to writing can be compared to attempting a trek across the Sahara desert with only a flask of tea and a lunchbox of cucumber sandwiches.

A matter of hours into the adventure, you’ll have eaten the sandwiches, drunk all the tea and be gasping for fresh liquid and starving for sustenance. You simply wouldn’t be able to continue.

What if instead though you were better prepared for the trip?

What if you went along, not just with your tea and sandwiches, but with a convoy of vehicles containing 3 months worth of food and water, a medical team with full mobile field hospital, satellite communications and a karaoke machine and portable dancefloor, just in case you got bored?

It’s pretty likely with preparation and back up support like that, you’d get a whole lot further into your desert adventure!

This may be an exaggerated example to make a point. But the same principle applies to creative writing and to being prepared to overcome writer’s block.

If you attempt to write a new novel armed with two characters, one scene, a few lines of dialogue and no plot, you’re going to struggle, however fantastic a writer you are.

If though, you begin with a strong idea for the story, and 3 journals packed with ideas for characters, scenes, plot twists, relationships and dialogue, you’re likely to get much further, much more easily. And your novel will be so much richer and more rewarding because of it.

So how can you be better prepared like this?

How can you avoid getting caught short and washed up by writer’s block when you’ve only barely started a new creative writing project?

Having an creative ideas journal is the best way. Carry it wherever you go, jot down all the ideas that come you to as soon as they appear. The more ideas you write down, the more you’ll find you’ll have.

Then when you come to write, you’ll be wonderfully prepared. Plus, you won’t find your tea and sandwiches have run out halfway through writing chapter one!

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