How It Works
By Annette Rey
There are many techniques a writer can use to get himself going, to break the block. I have experimented with improvisational writing and find it to be very effective in getting my mind racing forward and my fingers flying on the keyboard.
This is an easy and casual exercise to perfect.
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Boy, Have I Been Having Fun!
By Annette Rey
Any time away from your daily grind job is fun, right? Well, I have been recently blessed with a relief in my workload. I am spending that time enrolling in free, educational, one-day events around town (at colleges, nature centers, libraries, and churches)*.
These are marvelous opportunities for writers. Waves of new information enter your head and the creativity part of your brain lights up. I will be sharing these experiences with you, encouraging you to search out the same types of opportunities in your part of the world. You will be amazed at what is out there to stoke your writer’s imagination to help you break through anything you may think is writer’s block.
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Love Them Both!
By Annette Rey
You can break writer’s block by combining another subject you love with your primary desire to write work that flows. To this end, science facts will get me writing.
On 3/30/19 I posted Will Writer’s Digest Die?, an article informing that F&W Media, the publisher of Writer’s Digest, has announced Chapter 11 bankruptcy and unless another interest buys the magazine, writers of the world will lose a valuable resource.
What do these first two paragraphs have to do with one another? Read on.
Look, Think, Write
By Annette Rey
Writer’s block? Okay, we’ve been over this before.
Step One: Look around your room.
Step Two: What do you see?
Step Three: Name it out loud.
Step Four: What thoughts are conjured by those words?
Step Five: Write about it.
It really is that simple.
Why? Because you are a creative writer, that’s why. Believe in yourself.
Writer's Block No More 