The Causes of Writer’s Block – II

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There are many types of writer’s block and some are kind of serious when it comes to the very nature. These types of causes may take the author into a long lasting writer’s block.

Physical illness or disabilities are the top in this list and these are usually common for any writer. There are many examples of writers who have gone in to writer’s block due to the illnesses and permanent / temporary disabilities. When it comes to this type of a cause, there can only be limited things that can be done and all that are related to recovering from the physical illness.

The next is one of the most common psychological conditions; depression. Depression can be cause by many reasons and depression is the most common type of psychological condition found among the humans. If a writer gets into depression for whatever a reason, it has a long lasting impact on the work he produces. The most important thing related to depression is that the recurring effect of depression. If one becomes a victim of depression for once, there is a high chance of the person getting back to depression again and again. This recurrence can constantly affect the work of an author, taking the author to writer’s block.

Financial pressure is also another physical factor, which take authors to writer’s block. Financial pressure can have two sides; the writer’s private financial obligations and financial issues related to the writing project. The first aspect is quite clear and it is understood that such private financial obligations can kill the creativity and focus. The second aspect is related to the work that the writer is currently engaged with and the writer may not get enough financial return for what he / she has been writing. When there is not financial motivation, sometime, some writers can go into writer’s block.

Pressure for work can also be the enemy of a writer, especially when the writer is supposed to work against his / her usual style. As an example, if the publisher demands for the second book of a series to be completed in a hurry, but the writer is rather follow a slow writing method, then this pressure itself can be writer’s block.

The Causes of Writer’s Block – I

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Have youever heard of what the title says? If you have no idea, then just guess. Because, it sounds exactly what it means.

Writer’s block is a condition usually found with the people who do writing for living. In simple, these professional writers suddenly loose the ability to write and produce creative content. As we all know, creative and fresh content is what keep the writing profession rolling. When the writer looses the most important aspect of writing, then writing doesn’t mean anything to anyone!

Writer’s block mostly can be of temporary and can get rid of it after a fresh coffee or taking a vacation for a couple of days. But in other cases, it can be long term and there are cases that some writers have stopped writing for years and some have even given up on their writing profession.

Same as any other condition that affect humans, writer’s block also has many causes. The most frequent type of cause is the lack of creativity within the author’s work. This simply means that the author’s work is not creative compared to his or her past work. Imagine a situation where Arthur C Clerk running out of ideas for the last book of Space Odyssey; 3001 and just wrestle with words? How boring that can be for the reader and what kind of a reputation loss for the author? Many authors, luckily, avoid writing any thing if they are aware of that they are a victim of writer’s block.
Second most frequent cause for writer’s block is the lack of inspiration. This is more serious than the first cause as this can be frustrating for the authors. Lack of inspiration can stop the development of great work for years and sometime for the good. There can be many internal and external factors influencing this cause and such as a change in author’s perceptions, beliefs, or death of a loved one.

The next cause is also frequently found and potentially dangerous as well. Sometime, a writing project can be misconceived at the beginning beyond the experience and the skills of the author. The author may try to complete the work, but he or she will run in to writer’s block as it is too big for him/her.

Enter the Challenge of a Lifetime!

Are you starting to feel exhausted and overwhelmed?

Do you feel like you’re just one step away from some irreversible disaster? That’s fine. Any writer should feel this way, one way or another. This is a perfectly normal stage between loosing and finding the inspiration that might have been lost. But how do you find something that’s lost? You stop looking for it! That’s the best advice one can give you through suffering. Writer’s block is not a disease or something like that. It’s just a step that you need to take in order to get ahead with your creative efforts. One day, your book is going to be published worldwide and it would be a pity not to go on with whatever you’ve started to work on.

Feeling nervous and restless is absolutely normal. There is no greater motivator in life than crisis. Now it’s time for you to realize that writing is your lifetime duty. You owe it to your readers, you cannot just step aside and pull down the curtain only because of some dysfunctional day. Your inspiration is going to follow you wherever you go, so you don’t need to worry about never getting “healed”. You need to pass over this with pride and honor. If you cannot do it on your own, ask for encouragement in any self-help book you find back in the library or simply go and see a therapist for professional assistance. You deserve better. You deserve much better. It is your right.

And when you believe in your right to success and happiness, you will have happiness all around you from the moment you set yourself free. You know deep down in your own heart that time isn’t exactly your best companion. So you better stop whining and start…winning! For your own sake! There is no one in this whole world that could ever say to you…”You’ve got no talent. You can’t do it! Try something else!” Don’t ever let that happen. You’re just going through some rough phase and you’ll surely get over it sooner than you think. Indeed, there have been blocked writers who never came around in years. But you’re not like them, you’re genuinely the best and you can chill down this hot point once you realize you’re way above the others. Your book is going to be sold on each of every continent and your name will spread its echo all over the planet. This is not some kind of day dreaming or wishful thinking, this can really come true as long as you don’t let this block fall to pieces all over you.

Discouragement is a sense of weakness and writer’s block, on the other hand, is nothing but a challenge to strong ones. Beat this up and you’ll get to see your book up on stage, doing live performance! It’s all about self trust, potential and dare. Dare to dream, dare to navigate through your own Universe and bring your best words out into the open. After all, this is what writer’s block is all about: courage, patient, nerves of steel and full comprehension of life events. Sooner than you think, all this mist will dissipate so you could set out and fulfill your sky-scraping dream: publish a best-seller!

Put Writer’s Block to Sleep!

If it ever happened to you to stare at some blank piece of paper and have no single clue about what your story is all about, it’s a fact: you’re suffering from writer’s block. No need to worry, though! In order to help yourself recover from this so called writer’s temporary madness, you need to consider several aspects. No more patience to compose quality text? Sign in to different adjuvant sites on the Internet and find alternatives to settle back in your habit. Or, why not, enter a writing competition, meet people, socialize and listen to the ideas coming from outside. Most of blocked writers rather sit back in their couch, drink tones of coffee, watch soap-operas or just scribble in a pathetic notebook. Does it look like an aspiring author to you? Hell no!

Following a dream is not an easy task to handle. Don’t just sit around like a veggie and feel sorry for yourself! Do something! Get into action! Act now! Write anything that comes through your mind, fill hundreds of pages with words and don’t expect to sell whatever you’re writing under a mood like this. Just put down the words, read them loud, make conjunctions, come up with logical or illogical affirmations, anything! This will keep your imagination alive and give you space to breath. Otherwise, your creativity is going to atrophy and I bet you don’t want to waste tones of ideas away! Keep in mind that the best trick to exercise your talent is to write without stopping.

Write a lot, write with anger and power, write with contempt and do not let it go unless you get hungry or you need to go to the bathroom. Yes! That’s not a joke at all. This scam actually works! This way, you’re going to fool your brain and steal the inspiration out of it by constantly writing down whatever you’re thinking on spot. Writer’s block stands no chance against this rush of adrenaline, excessive zeal and mad determination.

Relaxation exercises to relieve the pressure out of your mind and body are also a good approach. Experts recommend Yoga practices but this is far from mandatory. Buckets of ice-cream, a glass of wine or some good classical music – these is just temporary “medication” for a blocked writer. As being said before, the best method that will eventually kick this weakness’ ass out of the picture is…constant writing. Write like crazy, do exactly what you’re not supposed to do when suffering from this kind of blockage and invest all of your human efforts to recover your strengths for the next chapters that you’re about to finish…soon!

Hitting the Wall By L. Diane Wolfe

Hitting the wall. Losing one’s muse. Grinding to a halt. These phrases describe a very discouraging situation also known as writer’s block. Why does it happen and what can we do to correct the problem?

Creative difficulties occur for a number of reasons. Perhaps things were running smoothly and then our story ran out of gas. Maybe we have grown careless with our processes and habits, rendering us unprepared for challenges. Our enthusiasm may wane, draining all motivation. Bottom line: we hit a wall when we lose sight of our goal. Without a clear target, we begin to drift and our story may stall.

How can we prevent the proverbial wall from appearing? How can writers apply the power of defined goals to their situation?

An outline provides a writer with a clear path to follow. Writing without an outline is like driving without a map – we don’t know where we’re going. A basic synopsis, complete with ending, will keep our story flowing forward. With an outline, we always have the option of skipping ahead to the next scene just to keep creativity flowing, thus preventing writer’s block from stopping us cold.

An outline will also keep us from wandering from our original idea. Think of all the time we save when we stop chasing rabbits! A physical outline is far more effective than a mental one, too. Our brilliantly conceived story will hold our interest if we can view concrete ideas and plans. Relying on the wisp of an idea in our minds is too vague and eventually leads to frustration. Write out the basic plot and set it in stone.

It takes more than an outline, though. The real strength of our resolve to stay on target resides between our ears! Our attitude and determination will play a pivotal role in our ability to move past obstacles. How strong is the desire to see our vision develop into a tangible story that others can enjoy? It will not matter how well constructed the outline if the story does not ignite the fire in our soul.

Is it really that simple? An outline and our attitude? Yes, because all it really takes to overcome any challenge or problem is a dream and a desire!

So, make preparations before the wall appears on the horizon and the inspirational muse goes missing. Plan a course of action and get excited about the journey. Remember, we don’t have time for obstacles in our path. We’ve got a story to write!

7 Key Self-Motivation Strategies for Writers by Luc Reid

Writing, especially writing and trying to sell large projects, like novels, is a clear-cut example of an area where self-motivation is essential. While this post is written especially for writers, the techniques I’ll talk about can be applied to practically any kind of project where self-motivation is needed.

Motivating ourselves to write can be hard: blank pages stare at us implacably, or we get 75,000 words into a novel and then realize there’s a basic flaw that will require a huge rewrite, or we’ll get dozens of rejection letters for every acceptance.

Writers generally need enthusiasm for a story to do a really good job of writing it, need to sustain their involvement in a project for months or often years, and need to be able to face rejection after rejection without giving up. Even very good writers typically see many rejections before they sell their work (Stephen King, when he started his career, put a big nail in his wall and spiked each of his rejection letters on there as he went. Fortunately, it turned out well for him in the end, although he collected hundreds of rejection letters before he really got off the ground). Self-motivation is tough in this kind of environment. Here are some tools for maximizing it. These notes can be useful to any writer, but they’re mainly written with fiction in mind.

Pick Your Project Very Carefully

A certain kind of writer tends to write whatever they’re most passionate about, regardless of length, genre, marketability, and so on. Another kind of writer tends to write whatever seems to be the most salable, whatever the market seems to be crying out for. A third kind of writer tends to follow some particular pattern dictated by their writing practices, being propelled neither by passion nor by saleability but by process. All of these approaches have their good points, and each can have real drawbacks under certain circumstances. The approach I would suggest is different from all of these: it’s to put extra effort into brainstorming, then making a careful selection from the possibilities.

What I mean by this is that when it’s time to start a new project, say the last project is finished, or has been scrapped, or needs to sit in a drawer for a while before you can get any perspective on it, or this is your first novel instead of looking for an idea for a new project, you look for a lot of ideas for new projects, using a variety of methods to come up with them. Review ideas you’ve jotted down or the ones that have been in your head. Look at some of your favorite books and see what you like most about them. Sit down and brainstorm at least two or three ideas out of the blue.

But why go to all this trouble when you have an idea you already know you’re burning to write, or that you think will sell well? Because our first ideas are often not our best ones, and a little time spent picking the right goal can save a huge amount of time working on the wrong one. It’s well worth slaving away at this brainstorming phase for a few hours even if at the end of it you opt for the idea you were interested in in the first place, if for no other reason than to understand deeply and clearly exactly why that idea is the best one for you to work on. And many times careful consideration of possibilities will yield a much better idea than anything that would have come up on its own.

Then comes the choosing. Passion counts for a lot: it’s very difficult to make a reader passionate about a book that the writer wasn’t passionate about when it was written. But other factors should probably figure in too, unless you’re only writing for yourself. Marketability? If you really want to sell your work, it would be ill-advised to ignore this unless you’re of the opinion that it’s impossible to tell what will sell. So writing a vampire novel because you love writing about vampires isn’t a bad idea, and writing a vampire novel because they’re in demand (let’s suppose) can work out well, but by far the best reason to write a vampire novel is that you’re passionate about it and someone’s clamoring to buy that kind of thing.

This applies to any decision: we often try to make choices based on one overwhelming factor, like buying something because it’s the cheapest or because we’re enchanted with it. But any of our priorities we put aside when making an important decision will come back to haunt us later. If the cheapest item breaks long before the more expensive version would have, or if the thing we’re enchanted costs so much that we end up short on the rent

But what does choosing well have to do with self-motivation? There are two key things: first, it’s not that helpful to motivate ourselves toward a goal we don’t actually want to reach. While even working toward a wrong goal can be educational, the same can be said of working toward the right goal, and the right goal has the additional benefit of paying off, which is an educational experience in itself.

Second, if we are working toward a wrong goal, sooner or later we will realize it isn’t something we really want to achieve (or we’ll achieve it, and the expected payoff will never materialize), and then we’ll be back to zero, with the sense that work gets us nowhere.

Always Keep In Mind What Excites You

Whatever gets you excited about writing a book is worth thinking about regularly. If you find your writing has turned into drudgery and you’re just trying to slog through until the end, you’ll have a lot of trouble motivating yourself and may not produce particularly great writing either (though there can be exceptions to that last part). If you hit this point, one approach that can propel you forward is to ask yourself “What would really get me excited about this project right now that I’m not already doing?” Kill an important supporting character, cause a disaster, give the protagonist what they’ve been striving for and see them realize that it isn’t their real goal at all, add a new character who churns things up … this is another case where more excitement for the writer tends to mean more excitement for the reader. All of this has to be kept in balance with your vision for the story, but if you can’t think of anything that keeps you excited about the writing and is consistent with your vision, maybe it’s time to rethink the vision.

The exception I know of in which drudgery can yield good writing is when you know your story much better than your reader, and so what feels like old hat to you is new and fresh for the reader.

If You Stop Feeling Motivated, Retrace Your Steps

Here’s a question that can be handy in projects that seem to have lost their drive: where was my motivation when I last saw it? Sometimes feeling like you’ve lost your enthusiasm means that you took a wrong turn somewhere. Maybe your interest in the story was being kept up by a minor character who according to your outline (if you use outlines) needed to leave the story a little while ago, but the story hasn’t interested you as much since. If so, it might be worth rethinking that decision. Maybe a character did something that violates who you were hoping for them to be, or made a choice to serve the plot instead of doing what they would really want to do if left to their own devices. Maybe you’re writing a section of the book that isn’t really needed.

Regardless, always be ready to take advantage of this great advantage of writing, that you can make a complete mess of something, but then go back and do it better and get full credit as though you had written it perfectly the first time. There’s a post on this subject on my writing blog: Avoiding Your Story

Use Support, Encouragement, and Deadlines

One of the best motivators for a project is to have a real deadline, with a real person is waiting to see your results. This can be accomplished through joining an active writer’s group, blogging about your writing and including planned deadlines, getting one or more writing buddies and reading each others’ work, signing up for a writer’s workshop for which you’ll need something to be completed by a given date, working on a project for a contest or market that has a firm deadline, or getting truly interested friends or family members to read your writing as you go. It’s powerfully motivating to realize that someone is waiting breathlessly for the next chapter of your book.

If you use this last approach, by the way, you may want to ask the person to write down any feedback they have, but only to give that feedback to you right away if it’s absolutely crucial. The rest can be collected at the end so you can consider it for the second draft. Getting constant feedback can cause constantly reworking what you have, which, well, let’s just make that subject a section to itself.

Don’t Spend All Your Time Reworking

Yes, often writing can be improved by editing or rewriting, but only to a certain point. After a while, more work on the same project will begin to suck the life out of it. Make your story as good as you can make it at the moment, then send it out without spelling errors or major problems. You can set it aside and revisit it once you have perspective, or rewrite it after a rejection if you have a major new insight about it, but don’t just keep fiddling with it it’s perfect: nothing ever is, to the best of my knowledge.

Writer’s Block Is Just Fear of Writing Something That Isn’t Good Enough

On my writing blog I have a lengthy post about writer’s block, which I’ll summarize here as it applies to motivation: it’s always possible to write something, even if that something turns out to be meandering gibberish. So writer’s block doesn’t prevent a person from writing: it makes them hesitant because they might write something bad. Since everyone writes something bad sometimes, this isn’t as dire a situation as it may feel like at the time. Screwing up is an appropriate thing to worry about with surgery or disarming bombs, but it usually just gets in the way to fret about it with something like writing. Remember, you can always fix it in the next pass, and sometimes bad writing ends up being an exploratory draft (a great term I first heard from Orson Scott Card) that will reveal exactly what you need to do to write the really great draft you’re going to put together next.

Don’t Get Too Attached

It’s hard sometimes to look at something you’ve put a lot of work into and decide to scrap it, whether it’s plans for a new business venture that isn’t going to work out, a relationship that turns out to be between the wrong two people, or a brilliant passage in a novel that doesn’t belong there. When you’re faced with these problems, take a step back and ask yourself what will really give you the best result in the long run, then keep the thing or remove it based on that choice (and if applicable, whatever responsibilities you may have taken on).

This doesn’t quite add up to kill your darlings as writers are often urged to do, or as Samuel Johnson put it “wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.” That’s overstating it. Some things you do that you love will just not fit in the project you’re working on, and it’s important to focus on making that project as good as it can be instead of on justifying all the great things you did along the way. Doing great things is its own justification, and it tends to be instructive as well, whether or not they work out in the end. Fortunately, contrary to Johnson’s point, sometimes great passages are doing exactly what they’re supposed to and ought to be left in.

There’s more I could say on this subject, but I’ve covered the main recommendations I set out to cover, and future posts will have more. In the meantime, how do these recommendations work for you? And writers, what particular self-motivation issues do you run into in your writing?

Writer’s Block – Hard as A Rock!

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Whenever you feel like you creativity holds water and don’t know what you’re after, you are most likely to be labeled as “sufferer” – a writer’s block victim. You need to figure out a way out before getting back to work. How can you possibly do that? Quite simple! Just stand in front of a clean mirror and look at yourself, try to reflect at whatever you did wrong and analyze your thoughts.

There’s no way you’re going to see through your own projected image! If writer’s block occurs, it means you’re the one who carries the blame, whether you like it or not. Something is going on and your major duty is to find out WHY. Why is this happening to you? Why are you stuck in the writing process and why isn’t a “doctor” in the house whom you could eventually turn for answers? As long as you’re asking yourself “why”, you’re on the right track.

There is no single doubt that writer’s block can sometimes seem hard as a rock. You may feel uncomfortable because of this feeling of emptiness. But you’re not alone! There are experts, counselors and mentors whom you can talk to. Don’t be afraid to discuss your own feelings and reach out for the best solutions by paying visits to this specialist who can actually help you!

Don’t deny you’ve got a serious problem – you do! Once you stop writing apparently for no reason, I can assure you that there IS a damn good reason in the background. You don’t need to quit your job or abandon your carrier just because of some lack of inspiration or easily disturbed state of mind. This will get solved as long as you keep up with your passion and stick around your pencils.

As hard as rock as it may sound, writer’s block is not for good! It happens for a reason. You can truly take advantage of this “black and white period” by realizing things you’ve never thought pf and reach a deeper level of consciousness all the way down to your inner senses. Ask yourself thousands of questions, give yourself satisfactory answers and hope for better sunny days, that’s the least you can do. Take your time and discern the softness from the hardness of this rocky-road period. If you’re not getting ahead with novels, start writing poetry! You’ll see that stirring thoughts and brilliant ideas will follow your path and help you catch sight of your own life in a different light. This time-out sequence can be a blessing indeed! You just need to see behind this sorrow happening and join forces with your ego to rise upon your imperfections and do a better job. Break the ice by breaking your old habits! Melt the hardness between lines and soften your heart with a lighter individual approach, so that writer’s block to loosen up the web and finally release the muse!

Don’t Let Your Vices Feed the Crisis!

You must have probably heard about those authors who lost their interest for quality writing and went after alcohol to wash down the crisis they’ve stumbled in. Yes, that is an option indeed but hardly the best way out! Vices are not getting along with crisis and that’s a fact. If you ever feel like you’re starting to lose sight of your own writing skills and native talent and don’t know where to turn for answers, don’t let yourself fooled by drugs and alcohol. Sure you can “mourn” the dead body of some unfinished poem of yours but make sure you don’t get to keen on that. Otherwise you’ll lose track of time and waste all of your energy on filling in the Loser’s Cup with Winner’s Champaign.

First, you owe it to yourself to stay tuned to reality, even if, sometimes, it is nothing but odious. As long as you remain calm and lucid you can hold on to the only hope you got left: that all this mess is going to be swept away and your book will finally get published.

The symptoms of writer’s block are similar to chronic depression. You lose your temper, you become anxious and frustrated about your own work, you don’t trust your instinct anymore…you simply choose to lay back in your bed and think of…nothing! You’re probably scared. That’s why you keep asking yourself what in the world went wrong since your last commitment to writing.  As you can easily see, writer’s block waits for no one.  It just comes along with your darkest thoughts and steals away your focus without leaving a note on the fridge.

There have been many well-known writers who suffered of this kind of “disease”. It can ruin someone’s dream and drop down any aspiration in a blink. Word-artists like Scot Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gilbert got through this on their own. There is no preparation time! By the time you keep asking “why?”, writer’s block hits the floor and smashes your finest future plans regarding your book. No one says those are easy times to get through! It is more like a thunderstorm coming from all the way down the hill and once it gets into your brains you’ll be feeling tired and hopeless. You’ll say “I cannot possibly make a successful carreer out of this! That’s just not for me! Let someone else handle this job and finish the book. I’m all done here!” Oh, no! That is the worst, despicable speech I’ve ever heard! You’re not allowed to feel bad, disappointed and doomed to failure. This is nothing but a toxic attitude! Writer’s block is not lethal; you better keep that in mind! It’s just a phase that is going to pass. Reconnecting with your soul and getting back in touch with your inner conscience – that’s what matters most if you’re willing to wrap up this sad chapter and start a new one for the real book!

No need to drink, smoke or do drugs. Vices are the worst enemy of an artist, as many ended up miserable and crawled to die somewhere around their living room, right next to their unfinished, abandoned books. So much for their happy-ending, if you ask me!

Fool the Rule! – Make a Brand New Start Out of Writer’s Block

There have been several rumors spinning around writer’s block. They say it’s more like a temporary “damaged” state of mind specific to long-term writers or, better to say, some kind of sudden blockage that keeps the words stuck in the process. “Sorry! The writer is out of order!” – that is another possible interpretation of this phenomenon, somehow amusing for most of the humorous authors all around the world. Despite all these versions, writer’s block is to be taken as a serious issue. It invades growing carriers, it can turn somebody’s life into a total disaster where writing means the only financial support and also, it strikes when we least expect.

A blocked author is not the luckiest person on the planet, that’s for sure! Having no inspirational thought and running on empty ideas for a potentially successful published book can affect anyone’s life, budget and psychological condition if writing is all they’ve got for a fortune.

Many of us simply do this kind of stuff for a living: writing. Once the tragedy occurs, nothing is going to be the same if not discovered on time and treated, one way or another. There is no definite recipe for getting over writer’s block. But there are few secret strategies that can lead the “victim” of this sad happening to recover from crying over spilled milk. Let’s just suppose that one morning some highly creative author gets stuck in finding the right words for illustrating a brilliant idea within the book he’s been working on for months or even years. He will probably fall down into a massive depression and get himself dragged in a complicated state of mind. No exit, no chance to deliver the complete report on time and no Nobel Prize for Literature in the next decades. Sounds pretty lame, eh?

Well…no need to despair! This is just a temporary difficulty in dealing with the task in hand. With a little help and support from your family and maybe a private counselor, you’ll be able to finish the whole book and send it to your publisher sooner than you think. Just think positive and look around for solutions! Try to reconsider your options and find a different approach or style for whatever you’ve been pulling out from your brains lately. Changes apply to everything and everyone! Don’t be scared to change your literary style and switch off that old, dusty storyline of yours. Writer’s block equals change. And change means a better suit for your personal believes and concerns regarding the big picture of your future book. If you’re afraid of change, it means that you’re scared to go for the best and reach out for success. I bet that doesn’t sound like you, am I right? Embrace any challenge and be open to further brand new ideas flying through your head. Put it all down and mark the history of literature by adding your birth name to the Hall of Fame! Writer’s block can change your life forever and for good! That means you can choose another successful path and write down the best story you’ve ever imagined. This can truly motivate you, refresh your style and lift all of your efforts up to the highest peak! So, I guess writer’s block is not that bad, after all!…

What if you’re about to choose between writer’s block and muse?

One of the main reasons that generate writer’s block is the well known daily stress. A stressful condition always affects anyone’s performance no matter what. So, you better keep yourself away from tension and other disturbing factors that you may encounter along the way. Herbal teas and a peaceful mind is all you need in order to make it to the top with publishing your own book and turn it into an international success. Don’t hesitate to change the words you don’t like and redo it all again if some friend of yours suggests that.

Often, true friends are well-intentioned. If you asked someone close to read your manuscript and that someone tells you that it could have been way much better than this, you better sleep on it! No need to feel embarrassed or offended. True advice comes from true friends! You may consider that sort of happening as some kind of writer’s block either. You also may feel like you don’t want to go on with this and you rather drop it while it’s still hot. That, as a matter of fact, is usually called writer’s block too.

Although this might happen at one certain time, no brave author should feel discouraged or insecure about stepping into the front line and make it big! Your book needs to be finished as soon and as good as possible and I bet you wouldn’t let some inappropriate state of mind to sabotage the whole work. Just feel free to keep up with your efforts so far and try to stay calm.

If you’re going through some serious issues or you got sick you should definitely see a specialist and solve your problems before getting back to writing. Otherwise, your book is going to suffer major “injuries” because of lack of concentration and poor inspiration. Your thoughts and personal believes should reflect the entire content of your story. Without knowing for sure what you’re about to say in your book, you’re less likely to succeed as a best-seller. Fortunately, writer’s block occurs occasionally. The symptoms are pretty easy to deduce and follow: fatigue, constant irritation, wrapped papers mounting up your desk, coffee getting cold, nerves reaching high and motivation going down. Those are just a couple of certain indicators that could eventually help you discover that actually something is wrong with whatever you’re doing behind the writing desk.

Do not ignore these alarming signals! This could mean a tough challenge even for those experienced writers and sometimes it turns to be a hard step to take. Writing is not an easy job at all! It involves inspiration, spontaneity, rich creativity, big motivation for performance and bigger will to get on top of the others! You have to believe that your golden pen is much better and luckier than the other’s. Self trust is a “must” undeniably! Never give up hope, never help writer’s block install itself cozy back in your brains and let it paralyze your thoughts! Be prepared for moments like these and invest huge efforts for recovering your strength and finish the whole deal! You know why? Because the book carrying your name on the front cover is about to be launched and recognized worldwide and you’re about to become the centre of admiration’s universe for people like you! Don’t miss that chance!

Make it happen, make it good!

Writer’s block is not your mood!

Keep away from foggy views

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You’ve got only these to choose:
Writer’s block or…writer’s muse!

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