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Breaking Out of Writer's Block
by Apryl Duncan

Part I of Breaking Out of Writer's Block examined the many factors that could freeze your words. Now, let's take a look at how you can write your way through Writer's Block.

The Cure!
After you've beat your fists on the keyboard and taken two aspirin for that migraine, try these cures for writer's block:

  • Revisit
    Re-read some of your previous works. Maybe it was a journal entry. Perhaps you wrote a poem once. It doesn't matter if you're working on a novel. You can still gain insight and even inspiration from something else you've written.

  • Change of Scenery
    How many times have you heard a song that reminds you of something? Perhaps you heard that song a dozen times a day when you were in college. So that particular song brings back memories. The same goes for scenery in your every day life.

    If you're sitting in the same room, day after day, the scenery's going to get old. That scenery starts to remind you that you're not writing. That you're stuck in what seems like a hopeless case of Writer's Block.

    The solution is simple. Seek out a change of pace. Go for a walk. Take a drive.

  • Rewrite Another's Work
    Check out a newspaper or magazine article. Now rewrite that story from a new angle. Maybe a young girl was kidnapped. Police are still looking for the suspect and the little girl.

    Your version of the story might portray the young girl as the daughter of a lawyer. Perhaps one of his clients wasn't happy with the way his own daughter's murder trial was handled. So he kidnapped the defending lawyer's pride and joy.



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