Due to depression and social anxiety, I started writing less and less a couple years ago and one day gave it up all together. I'm starting to get over the depression and social anxiety now, and the Writer's Block is receding too. I feel like a can write some now, but I still don't have the passion and drive like I did before. I mean I can actually sit down and write for 30-45 minutes maybe once or twice a week (where as before I couldn't bear to even try), but I want to get back on a daily schedule. Does anyone have any tips? I've just been trying to read more, write what I can and be satisfied, and try and read some books on creative writing (probably re-read Stephen King's book). Is there anything else I can do? This is especially important because I have a novel I started writing in the fall of 2009 that I want to finish this summer and I want to prepare myself for this story that is so important to me.
Getting Over Writer's Block
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My first book was almost completely written under writer's block, as I made a lot of stuff up on the fly. The best way to get rid of writer's block is just to slog through it. You may hit a patch of ease and inspiration...or you may not, but whatever you are trying to write will get written.
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I've had 13 books published.
If you've got writers block try writing something out of sequence.
For example, if you have written chapter 1, 2 and 3, and you are stuck, but you know where the story is going, then try starting a later chapter and come back to where you were later.
If you've got writers block try writing something out of sequence.
For example, if you have written chapter 1, 2 and 3, and you are stuck, but you know where the story is going, then try starting a later chapter and come back to where you were later.
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I find my biggest problem is just feeling like whatever I write is complete crap. Either I write too little and the pacing is to fast, or I write too much and bring the story to a grinding halt. I can never find a balance of what feels right.
Last night though, I decided I don't care and just wrote whatever came to me, without worrying whether it was too long, too short, good, or bad. It seems to help because I actually just finished writing a bit just before posting this and I cant' remember the last time I wrote two consecutive days in a row.
Last night though, I decided I don't care and just wrote whatever came to me, without worrying whether it was too long, too short, good, or bad. It seems to help because I actually just finished writing a bit just before posting this and I cant' remember the last time I wrote two consecutive days in a row.
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What you just described is a good writing exercise for poets and storytellers alike.
The next time you feel like whatever you write is going to be bad or whatever, just repeat this to yourself.
"I can always revise it later."
That's why they call it a rough draft. Some are rougher than others, hehe.
Revision is just what shapes and polishes it into it's final product.
The next time you feel like whatever you write is going to be bad or whatever, just repeat this to yourself.
"I can always revise it later."
That's why they call it a rough draft. Some are rougher than others, hehe.
Revision is just what shapes and polishes it into it's final product.
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