We’ve all dealt with writer’s block. I find that professional writers deal with it less than casual writers just because at some point you need to just write in spite of it if you’re going to pay the bills. In my opinion, learning to do this is primarily done through learning about the root causes of writer’s block so that you can just deal with the problem and move on.
The most common cause of writer’s block for me is one of two things. In relation to the work that I’m doing for a living it’s usually that I am burned out on writing. I need to acknowledge this, step away from my writing for a little while and then come back to it when I’m not exhausted of writing anymore. In terms of my creative writing, the problem is more often that I get into the middle of the thing and don’t want to keep going. In this case, the solution for me is to keep writing anyway.
As you can see, the different causes of writer’s block can cause solving the problem to haev radically different approaches. Pushing through the work when I’m burned out isn’t going to get me through writer’s block. Taking breaks every time a creative project gets tough is going to cause me to avoid it completely. To know what to do, I need to know myself and what’s going on with me.
Learn more about my thoughts on dealing with different kinds of writer’s block.
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April 18th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
I understand what you mean about those who don’t write often or for a living tend to suffer from writer’s block more, because I don’t write for a living, so I’m constantly struggling to come up with something to write about. Thanks for writing about this.