Breaking Writer’s Block
What do you do when the ideas won’t come? You don’t need to be ashamed. Everyone gets creatively stopped up from time to time. Here are a few tricks to try when you are dealing with writer’s block:
- Narrow your focus. Maybe you are trying to think of too many things at once. Tackle your problems one by one by making an outline or breaking things down to a minute level if you have to. Give yourself a timeline to complete each of these tasks, but don’t take days. Try to get them done in hours.
- Take a walk or exercise. Everyone knows the brain is fueled by blood. Don’t let that blood coagulate in your butt; get outside and move around. When your blood starts circulating again, the new ideas will be coming back in no time.
- Deal with something else that may be distracting you. Sometimes when I am stuck, the reason is that I am worrying about something else. It may be an unfiled expense report or a floor that needs vacuuming...