5 Steps to Beat Writer’s Block

5 STEPS TO BEAT WRITER’S BLOCK

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Today is the day. I am going to beat my 8-month long writer’s block.  I am going to start writing on a consistent basis and I will not get distracted. I will finish this post and maybe even publish it.

What caused this writer’s block? What has taken me so long to get back in the groove of writing? I love writing, so what’s the big deal. Everyday I keep telling myself, “Today is going to be the day.” The next thing I know the day has gotten away from me and I find myself saying, “Ok, tomorrow is going to be the day. I will start tomorrow.” I don’t let myself get away with this thinking and procrastination when it comes to working out so I need to break this trend with my writing. Today is the day the procrastination stops.

My game plan for getting back on track:

  1. Getting started right now! As my husband told me this morning, “The most obvious thing you have to do to break writer’s block is to start writing.”
  1. Removing obstacles and making it easy to just sit down and write. As I sat down to write this post I ran into all sort of obstacles because it had been so long since I had written. Microsoft Word wanted me to login and I couldn’t find my correct login information. My email was open so I got distracted reading emails. I finally just had to close everything down, put Word in full-screen mode and just start writing.
  1. Set aside 20 minutes a day to write.
  1. Put myself in a distraction free zone. I will turn off my phone, close my door and just write for 20 minutes.
  1. Find accountability partners. There are tons of groups on Facebook for writing support. I will find ONE of those groups to participate in and I will only use one group because if I join more than one I will just get distracted.

Look at that! I just wrote my first blog post in ages and I am one step closer to beating my writer’s block. I will be back tomorrow. In the meantime, it’s time to edit and post.

If you have made it this far, I want to hear from you. Have you ever suffered from writer’s block? If so, how did you beat it?

5 STEPS TO BEAT WRITER’S BLOCK
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