Beating Writer’s Block
Once upon a time there lived a young girl (well almost young) who decided to write a fiction novel containing the most perfectly poetic prose possibly put to pen. Not that hard, right? Two months later she found herself stumped, for lack of a better word, and unable to leap beyond the frightening realm of…. Chapter Two! What was a young girl to do?
Superman: Enter Stage right.
Ok let’s be honest, Superman didn’t come to my rescue. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that the ‘young’ girl was me, and this was the first roadblock, of many, on the journey toward writing my first bestseller. As I sat on my ever-so plump posterior, staring at the demonically defiant computer screen, I was hit smack in the face by what many famous authors call, inspiration.
Helpless victim executes Plan Google (a.k.a search for term “writer’s block“)
My first result sounded something like, “write it and it will come” and truthfully it wasn’t as silly as it sounds.
Writer’s block, also known as Muse Apnea, is the result of over thinking. What’s the cure you ask? Simple. Stop thinking and just start writing. Don’t edit, don’t critique, simply start writing about the first thing which comes to mind. In the end most of what you write will be complete garbage and not worth the paper it’s written on (clich
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