Conquer your fear that you are not good enough, fear that the market is too crowded, and fear that nobody wants to hear from you. Twenty years ago, when I was writing historical thrillers and supernatural horror novels, I learned that I had blocked previous authors. This happens to all great writers at some point, and it is easy to overcome.
I dare say that every college student has faced the dreaded writer’s "block”. I have been on the intuitive research path towards the inspiration and comfortable success “making it look easy” techniques. Some advice in comfort foods hopefully to come; Here are some tips to help you in future situations when you are staring at a blank, unfinished piece of paper and want to pull your hair out.
=dishes warm up=
To attack writers block, grab a pencil and paper, get a reason to return to handwritten notes that have worked wonders, and start writing and if you cannot still, wave your hand around that page, as if your writing, find your form and technique (seeing the page as a canvas but less to the form of the action). Looking for answers, I read books often simularly, randomly begining to flip pages around first, its a micro version of “fake it to make it.” step into the act / action slowly by practising/faking it, much like i used to do the dishes with when i was not “feeling it”. Simply i’d wave my hands above the sink sometimes put water on and slowly begin doing the action after a few waves and messing arounds.
I could get my hands on about the writing process and looked for ways to make it easier.
=Chip at the image rock=
Paint pictures write poems, design images in Photoshop, create scrapbooks and collages or build a garage if you're masculine. If you start with enough time to cope, your brain has plenty of scopes to think about. Trying to do it all at once is not the cool way to do it, but it's what our professor has suggested and it works.
The key is to keep training the creative part of your brain so that you can tap into the flow of writing. Work on a creative project for a few hours a day and then return to writing. You can do a Google search for ideas on how to beat writer’s block, and you will get some ideas that suggest this.
Some suggest trying writing while standing on your head, writing with a pencil in your non-dominant hand, taking a long walk in the woods, or listening to Vivaldi's work. But don't be discouraged, there is a solution to break the writing block that will save your hero from drowning. Or your train of thought from crashing into the damsels in distress?
My molecule mindset meditations help me write, create an endless stream of ideas, sketches, articles, stories and even think alternatively to reduce stress and undue fear/nervous reactions.
=pull back the curtains=(telepathic)
The reason you are not a prolific, successful writer is your fear of writing. It's a monstrous creative abstract underworld understanding your efforts in creative productivity, but if you turn it into a pesky flea that's not hard to swim away, you get what you need. Like lucid dreaming during the day! “Day-dreaming” like it were martial-arts performance to oppose one thought for another, replacing a bad “apple” bag image, with a basket of freshly picked mutant-sized apples!
Then you begin to see you are the author of your imagination, and the muscle is flexible. So let the show begin, you find writer’s block? Pull back the curtains made of rock? And let the show begin! Lucidly-affirmed as imagined status symbolically shows properties. You can write about that! right?
=Roll the stone=(ghostly)
There are two halves of the brain: the part that uses words and the part that generates images and emotions. Although they are not diametrically opposing one another, they are quadrants of existence with the potential of representation by you, whom witness your existence. In the state of writer’s block, often the knowledge of that opposition brain-landscape is well enough to write… but consider again the symbology and use the above methods in twain functionally different as tools. One might find the pass phrase is “placebo” enough to have the writer’s stone block move from our thoughts paths, simply by finding the phrase, “open sesame”.
As my youth may have contained, I was triggered by rhymes. I’d stare at the page and consider what rhymed. And formulate the subject and formality from there. Considering rhyme some divine compass at times of blurr and bland boredom.
The only answer is to experiment, even if you don't consider yourself an experimental writer. Just because you have an audience, doesn’t necessarily mean they read every scribble.
In a poetic way scribble a picture, and write around that. Often I google a word and scroll through the images section it generates, colors and shapes, brands etc.
I will put myself on the same level and say that if you get stuck in a revision that it is not necessarily some sort of writer's "block" or even the nebulous concept of the "block" of writers but rather a natural process of trying to diagnose what makes your novel sick. It can take a while to look at your text from different angles and find out what the problem is, and you may need more feedback from more people to find out if there is a real structural weakness. Every problem is different, but the underlying battle will be familiar to every writer of a genre or level of experience. [Sources: 1, 9]
Like the common cold, writing blocks infect many attacking writers of all kinds - creative, business, and technical. Anxiety and convenience are two of the overarching causes that prevent writers from blocking breakthroughs. Ignoring people can damage relationships, and ignoring creativity can make us more susceptible to writing blocks. [Sources: 10]
You read too many blogs, write books, listen to podcasts, it seems. It seems that every writer spends months on end, without the slightest effort, without a moment of doubt or trembling with fear, talking article after article, story after story and story after story. [Sources: 5]
Recently, I was at the Austin Texas Book Festival and at a question and answer session about one of the events, a speaker asked what we think of writers in the audience. A quick search on Google Scholar reveals that hundreds of scientific papers have been written about writing fear. Other people seem more capable than you and I, and I have read that you also suffer from crippling anxiety. [Sources: 3, 5]
The concept of the "writing block" carries a mystique that makes it appear like a kind of magical state that appears out of nowhere like an aneurysm or a food allergy and something has to be done about it. The part about the writing block that sounds awful and insurmountable is the fact that no one takes it seriously. [Sources: 3, 9]
People lump together several different kinds of creative problems. In fact, there is nothing to block writers, and treating a wide range of creative slowdowns as a single disease creates a monolithic giant. Every kind of creative slowdown has different causes and solutions. [Sources: 9]
Sources:
0: https://www.writersdigest.com/whats-new/7-ways-to-overcome-writers-block
1: https://www.pw.org/content/how_to_get_unstuck_the_psychology_of_writer_s_block
2: https://trend.usao.edu/2014/08/04/how-attack-writers-block
5: https://writingcooperative.com/how-to-write-despite-crippling-anxiety-8a7c3cde5255
7: https://www.writtenwordmedia.com/500-writing-prompts-to-help-beat-writers-doubt/
8: https://thewritepractice.com/story-game/
9: https://gizmodo.com/the-10-types-of-writers-block-and-how-to-overcome-them-5844988
10: https://omegazadvisors.com/2013/08/01/writers-block-breakthrough-two-techniques/
11: https://www.goodreads.com/questions/76239-how-do-you-deal-with-writer-s-block