Writer’s Block
There’s nothing worse than finally having time to sit down and write and giant [writer’s] BLOCK falls on your head and wipes out all thoughts in your brain.
I can’t count on two hands the number of times I’ve spent my writing time staring at a blank screen and a keyboard of possibilities and nothing happens. My husband will walk in and ask how I’m doing and I usually give him a big ol’ thumbs up and smile and say “GREAT!” Yet nothing is actually great.
And I respond that way because I know if I tell him I’m not really writing he’ll say something so incredibly helpful like…
Writer’s block only lasted me the start of book one. Once I got going, the story flew from my mind. Book two is a different story.
I can roll my damn block all I want and for some reason, it ends up like this instead…
It’s frustrating because the story is in my head, I just can’t seem to fill the holes to make it a novel vs. just a story I could tell at a bonfire.
I needed a fix. Lately, I’ve been trying a new trick that seems to be helping. I pick either a part I’m working on or an old part and I simply retype the entire thing. This helps me in two ways.
1
I catch a ton of mistakes or find a better way to write certain words or sentences. This is awesome because it cuts down my editing time later on and usually lets me improve a lot of my writing.
2
It gets my brain into the writing zone. Majority of my writer’s block is because I’m not in the zone or don’t know which way to take my writing. But when I rewrite a part, I tend to visualize the scene much better and can start to see what is happening next. Or even catch something that triggers a scene later on!