Ready, Set, Write! 9 Tips to Climb Out of Writer’s Block NOW!

From www.powerculturemag.com Issue 3, “The Power Writer’s Manual” 

  1. Quick! Immediately! Get out of the space you’re currently in. Sometimes you need a new environment with new noises and smells to get the juices flowing.
  2. Are you stuck because you’re censoring yourself? DON’T! People are bored with reading banal, emotionless, me too, cardboard writing. Got a story- TELL IT- just like it happened.
  3. Is this going to be a bestseller? How the hell will you know if you don’t finish it? Quit putting so much pressure on yourself to create a bestseller and just go for creating YOUR best work. It has to be done to get on the bestseller list. 
  4. Don’t know where to start? Did you do an outline? Nothing formal eh, just a basic draft of the topics you want to discuss in the order you want to discuss them.  This will get you started and organized.
  5. First paragraph sound like crap? Who cares, keep writing. As you write, the juices will flow, the energy will come, you will fix some of it later and your editor will fix the crap you decide to keep 😉 
  6. Get inspired. Turn on music, workout, take a shower, watch your favorite movie. Do whatever that thing is that makes you feel motivated, powerful and gave you the desire to be an author in the first place. 
  7. Pick up your favorite author’s book. No doubt, this person in some way has served as an inspiration to you and your budding writing career. Re-reading some of your favorite passages will get you going again.
  8. Come up with the title. The title to the book, the chapter, the section- anything. I’ve found that once I have a title I like, the words start the flow around it. 
  9. Why? Why are you writing? Is it to share your expertise, to share your story, to catapult your career or business? Turn off the computer. Take a moment and remember your BIG Why.  Close your eyes and completely submerge yourself into all of the emotions surrounding that why. Take 10 deep breaths. Let yourself hear and smell your environment. Open your eyes, turn on your computer, and without censoring, without worry of bestseller status, write, write, write. You have a book inside of you. Now let’s get that story OUT!
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