5 Surefire Tips to Cure your Writer's Block |
Posted: August 9, 2018 |
It happens to the best of us. One minute, we’re writing like crazy, jotting down our wildly imaginative thoughts on paper, and the next moment, blank. Frozen in a particular time and place from which we’re able to unstuck ourselves. We’re reluctant to even start because we know that we’d have nothing to write about. That inner critic struggle. So, this demotivates us on top of everything. This stasis is what’s commonly termed as a writer’s block. But it’s not unbeatable. There are plenty of ways to get the inky fire going again. And following are some of the tried-and-tested tips to step out of a writer’s block and step into a writer’s phase. Retrace and Repeat:Don’t let the tyranny of a blank page affect you. Instead, go back to what you previously wrote and repeat any sentence or phrase from there. Just don’t stop writing even if you’re not coming up with anything new. Don’t worry. You can always remove this repeated content later on. Consider it as a jumpstarting material to bring your jammed creative car into motion. Once the flow restarts, the repetition will cease and you’ll be producing genuine, original sentences before you even know it. Associate Freely:The human mind works in curious ways. Oftentimes, you glance upon a thing and automatically start associating it with another object or idea, from any part of your life. For instance, you look at a flower and associate it with weddings. It’s all very haphazard, yet highly creative in nature. You can use this practice to ward off the writer’s block. Start with a repeated sentence and build up from there. Like, if the last word is ‘bathroom’, you can freely associate it with ‘tub’, ‘marble’, ‘murder’, ‘blood’, ‘hair’, ‘heir’, ‘diamond’ and so on. One idea will flow from another and you’ll get back your writing flow. Lose Control:It’s time to silence the inner critic forever. It’s had such a strong hold on you until now. Making you feel so under-confident as regards your writing, and striving for a society-approved form of perfection. Trying to convert what’s clearly a circle into a finely-defined square. You know what? You need to go full Jabberwocky on it. Lose control. Kill the censor. Embrace the chaos. On the white page before you, start coming up with words of your own if you have to, words that are not found in the dictionary, words that make you laugh and get your creative engine going. Just don’t be silent. Keep your flow alive. Change Routine:Do you have a particular corner in your house that you go to in order to write? Well, if you do, then you need to change that. Get yourself out of the rut. Explore new spaces. Try writing in the oddest areas, like the bathroom or the storage room beneath the stairs. If that doesn’t work, then like the most English writers, head over to a natural resort, a peaceful cabin away from the busy metropolitan. There are online home-exchange options too, which you can check out over your super-reliable Charter Spectrum connection. If you’re used to writing in the morning, then try writing at night. If you write on your laptop, maybe writing on paper will get you restarted. Perhaps, a change of routine will reactivate your wordiness and resurrect your dead imagination. Take a Breather:I know this tip might contradict with the first one. But it’s the last resort, after all. If nothing else works, then trying too hard might actually prove quite counter-productive. So, distance yourself from anything that reminds you of the block and take a breather. Go on a break for as long as you need to and then return to the piece of writing. If you’re still interested in it, then continue. If not, then move on to a new project. So, by following the aforementioned tips, you can cure your writer’s block.
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