I had an idea for what I wanted to write this week and it just wouldn't come to me, as to how to do it. So I figured why not? Let's write about writers block. You know the feeling. Writing, creating art, creating anything. You love watching as something is created in front of you. The feeling is amazing. It feels like you could conquer the world. That is, until the feeling leaves.
Now accepting the fact that you have writers block? That is just as hard. Sometimes it is so easy to see something in my mind but to actually get down on paper? Cue Tom Hanks.
" Writer's block" is defined as the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing.
So while this article is mainly focused on writing I know some people get it when creating any form of art. They can clearly see the piece they want to create but don't know where to start. So let's see what some authors say is the best way they kick their writers block.
Dan Brown
Apparently Dan Brown, author of "The Davinci Code," gets up from his every hour on the hour and does several push-ups and sit ups to keep the blood flowing and to cause his body to "wake up". It makes sense; sitting for a long time at a computer where the only muscles working are you brain and your fingers, eventually you have to get the blood flowing and the ideas will follow soon after.
J.K Rowling
J. K Rowling 's tip isn't quite for once you have arrived in the rut of writer's block, but a way to prevent it happening. You see before she wrote the Harry Potter series the idea of it originally came to her when she was sitting on a train. She didn't have a pen, and she didn't even have a napkin to scribble ideas on. “I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.” So don't rush straight to the scary blank page. Wait, let the ideas grow and develop in your mind for a bit. You will have more to work with and know more about your story.
Julie Ann Dawson
“I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready yet. Sometimes I don't write for weeks. And then all of the sudden I'll get a rush of inspiration and you can't drag me away from my notebook. But I don't stress out if I don't hit some arbitrary word count each day or if I go a few days without writing something.”
This one goes along with Rowling's sometimes you can't force creativity to be there. You just let it flow in and out of you and work hard when it hits.
E. L Doctorow
“Writing is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”You can plan and plan but sometimes you just have to let the words speak for them selves and come out of the pen one word at a time.
Stefanie Weisman
“Unfortunately, many people suffer from BPS - Blank Page Syndrome. Let's face it: starting to write is scary. Seeing the cursor blinking at you on that bright white screen, realizing that you now have to come up with three or ten or twenty pages of text all on your own - it's enough to give anyone a major case of writer's block!”
Don't be afraid of writers block! Just take a break, look at some of these ideas, maybe look up some of your own. It won't be long until you have a solution!
