Friday, March 28, 2008
How to Overcome Writer’s Block
In this place you can experiment, play, loaf, relax, confess and be alone enjoying yourself. It's a safe place, immune from the need to impress anyone. Yet even within this place sometimes blocks lurk around keeping me fear about writing. I find myself avoiding writing for days and maybe weeks or even months. Or, when I do come to this place to write, the board keys won't seem to press, I stop in the middle of a paragraph and my thoughts run away, and sometimes suddenly become very tired, too tired to write.Generally such blocks, or inabilities to write, are caused by the fear of self critic. Sometimes I don't have the "ok-ness" or the acceptability of all what I tend to write, and therefore it may represent fear about quality or style of my writings.
To outwit such fear is to make fun of it. Check the following cartoon
If I ever have writer's block; there is someone pregnant out there.