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Saturday, February 22, 2014

How to break away from writer’s block


What have I learned about writing this week?

It’s hard.

For a while, I thought I had writer’s block.

That’s freaking scary, especially when you are forced to produce.

Reading helped me break away.

Often I’ll read something really good and react one of two ways:

  1. I get jealous. Just totally envious of how great some writers are. They blow my mind.

Or

  1. I am moved to write. Something in what I have read reminds me that I have something important (at least to me) that I want to say.

Reaction # 1 leads to more reading.

Reaction # 2 causes me to scribble in the margins of what I’m reading, or close the book altogether and open my notebook or laptop.

How do you break away from writer’s block?

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