Fighting Writer’s Block

Each writer goes through this phase at least once a year. When you feel like your brain is frozen and you are unable to come up with one creative idea, or when you feel bored of your work and don’t feel like looking at it again. Your ideas all look similar, but still do not help your work. Represented to you are some solutions to unblock your “Writer’s Block”

1. Brainstorming

   Sit down with some friends and talk a little bit about your work. They might come out with ideas that would help your work. They might also give you some irrelevant ideas, yet those ideas might open some doors for you.

2. “People” Watching

   Some people go bird watching. Writers go “people” watching. Go to a public place, a park, or a café, watch people’s behaviors around you. Imagine the story behind their gloomy or happy faces. If two people are sitting beside you, try to imagine what they are telling each other. What they are thinking about at the moment. Take notes, these notes might help the process of writing.

3. Reading

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   Read classics, modern novels, poems, scripts, or anything that might present some new ideas for you. A part of a dialogue here, an article there, all those things might, also, help you in a way. Just read Works related to yours.

4. Writing Exercises

   One of the writing exercises I found online is to write. Write anything and everything that comes on your mind. Don’t pay attention to punctuation or any mistakes you make. Just write. Writing at first would be hard, it then would be like a second nature, and words would come floating through your brain cells.

5. Art Museums

   Check out the Art Museums around you. Or even search the internet for works of arts. A small thing in the picture might help you with new ideas. Lots of great poets and writers wrote great works inspired by just a picture on a wall. A great example was W H Auden in his poem “Musee des Beaux Arts”.

6. Something Old

   Check your old unfinished works, if you still have some unfinished. They would trigger something in your brain, they would either make you complete them, or their might be some useful ideas in them that you can blend to your recent work. Either way, you wouldn’t be suffering from a writer’s block.