A few days ago, I talked about dealing with writer’s block. It’s that internal editor that acts as judge, jury, and executioner when you’re writing pretty much anything. It has no value when you’re composing a first draft because it blocks you and gives you nothing but frustration. That internal editor will have value later […]
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Today’s prompt has me giving advice about a topic that I have a lot of knowledge about. Today, that advice will be about defeating writer’s block… or, at the very least, pushing writer’s block aside. It may come back, but not yet. One of the reasons that people have writer’s block is the fear that
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Today, I decided to model a creative writing exercise, designed to combat the infamouse writer’s block. So, I used a random word generator to come up with eight disparate words. Here are my words: entice, bribe, soothe, tawdry, furious, ice-cream, glasses, cake In this exercise, there will be a time limit of about 10 to
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because I don’t have a clue of what to write about… So, I don’t know what to say. It’s as if I got stuck and I want to talk about random stuff. Or maybe I could write a poem. A poem about a sailboat that floats off into the sea. So here goes. I’m going
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I love to use prompts to write a story. I should emphasize that I mostly use prompts to help me overcome the writer’s block that occasionally strikes me. Writer’s block is an irritating thing that results in people losing confidence in their ability to write. But you don’t have to give in to the frustration
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