Author: pistoletdefleurs

I have a serious writer’s block problem. I used to write about 4500 words a day; then there were 2 years during which I didn’t write a single word. Now when I happen to actually write something, it’s less than 2000 words at once, and I’m not able to write more often than once a month. Do you know of any ways or exercises that could help me to get rid of the block?

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thewritershelpers:

If you’re trying to build back to a specific word count per day, but aren’t writing daily now, the first advice I’d give is to say: don’t worry about word count right now. Worry about writing consistently. If you write consistently, whether that’s daily, every other day, weekly, whatever, the words will come over time. Daily is best, it really is, but even easing into that is fine.

In order to get yourself writing daily you need three main things: time, motivation, topics.

The first two your have to make yourself. You have to discipline yourself to write.

Imma say that again for the benefit of all: YOU HAVE TO DISCIPLINE YOURSELF TO WRITE.

The third one can come from yourself, your ideas, from prompts, from friends, from replies/reactions to what others write, from wherever. The point when setting up a routine like this isn’t to write the same thing everyday from the same idea well. Change it up. Do whatever you have to do to make this routine stick. Experiment with the time of day you write, what your eat or drink (or don’t), where you write, what you write with/on, try everything until you find the ideal method for sticking to a writing routine. Then enforce it. If you fall off the wagon, don’t chide yourself. Just take a deep breath and start again tomorrow. Enforce your writing time with yourself.

Once you’ve got yourself on a routine, you can start introducing other things to enforce, like word count goals, specific topics/projects to work on, etc.

These routines do not have to be a lot of time. Ideally, all writers want to be able to write whenever, wherever, for however long they want. That is not the reality. The reality is you have to make time for yourself, and often that time will be limited. It may only be an hour. It may only be half an hour. Work with the time you have available, and you’ll learn to use it wisely. The more you write, the more you’ll find time to write and that time will grow. Don’t beat yourself up for only having thirty minutes a day to write when you start doing a routine. This is your foundation for a very, very long building project that will take years to complete (and realistically, if you’re going to be a lifelong writer, that building will NEVER be finished). But you can start it until you build the foundation and ensure it is solid. And I totally did not mean to go all construction metaphor on that, but it happened.

Bottom line is, you need to write on a consistent basis. When you’re starting out (or rebuilding), it doesn’t so much matter what you write but that you do write. And generally speaking, that is the basis for all writers and all creative types.

Hope this helps!

– O

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markusbones:

If you look at the world and say “Yes, there are enough homes for people, yes, there is enough food for people, but if we give it away for free they won’t have earned it and the economy will collapse.” Then you have chosen money (a constructed medium of exchange) over living beings who only want to continue living in peace and safety.

And I have no qualms telling you, that is the wrong choice, and you have been brainwashed by this destructive, exploitative system.

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