For the last six years I’ve been suffering from serious writer’s block. I did write three books during that time, but it was a total slog. I made myself write, instead of wanting, yearning to write, which was the way it had been for the previous twenty years. Never before had I struggled to put…
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Broken Fingers, NOT Writer’s Block
My fingers must be broken. Really. How else can you explain their inability to type words on the page? No answer? That’s what I thought. Broken fingers it is. Fine…I’ll say it. I have a case of the writer’s block. Or what would be known as writer’s block, if I believed such a thing existed….
When Motivation to Write is Gone
We’ve all been there. Or maybe we’re there right now? In this collective, yet solitary brain-trust known as writing. This hive-mind of almost universally shared desire. It’s what we do. Why? Because we have stories to tell. So we spit them out of our heads and onto paper (never mind the mess). But what do…
Lazy Writer’s Syndrome
Strategies to keep your story hot and productive There’s nothing worse than Lazy Writer’s Syndrome. There are no symptoms in its early stages. It only becomes apparent when we look up from our busy lives and realize we haven’t been writing for—oh, ten days, ten weeks–ten months. We have an ongoing accountability system in my critique group….
Get out of jail–er, writer’s block–card
To escape writer’s block, douse the raging fears and critical inner voice, and find a route to fresh thinking. For me, that route has been to write to my friend, Pam, and explain what’s blocking my writing. How my BFF helps me escape writer’s block Dear Pam, Here I am again, writing to you because…