Anyone have a cure for writer's block?

Question

Other than sheer panic, which sets in during the last 24 hours before deadline? Argh...

Answer 1

Take something else that you MUST do, like your taxes, or another project. Something kinda tedious and difficult, like math.(Anything involving math works for me)

Tell yourself that you are going to ignore your writing and that you will work on your taxes or project for 30 mins. Make yourself work on this project for 30 mins or even an hour.

The key thing is that you have to tell yourself that you are not allowed to work on your writing during this time period. As you go along, you'll find that your brain now wants to write, it dosen't want to do a math project...especially if it's not allowed to write. When you start to get inspired, start writing down your thoughts in point form but keep trying to get the other project done. When your brain is too full of writing ideas, then you can stop working on the other project and go back to writing.

Hope this works for you.

Answer 2

Ok go do something for 10 min. Watch tv, play video games, run around the block, anything. Now come back to your story. Read over what has happened so far. Now look at where your character is. What do they smell, hear, see, taste, feel. If you can't move the story along expand on the scene. This will open up more possibilitys for what can happen next.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Stop worrying and thinking and it will come to you

good luck:)

Answer 5

You have to do something you've never done before: go someplace new, read a kind of book you normally avoid, try a new sport, eat a new food, etc.

Writer's Block is a sign that your creativity has become bored. You need to jump-start it by giving it new material to think on.

One of my favorite methods is to jump on my bike and ride through a strange neighborhood and study how people decorate their front yards; then see if I can postulate what kind of people live there. It's a mental exercise, but it usually works.  

Answer 6

I don't think that there's such thing as a cure. It comes, you wait (and pray it'll go away), and it goes.... hopefully. I don't know. I've been writing for sth like 8-10 years, I don't think if there's sth like a "cure". Try to keep writing from a future point in the story, this might help you sometimes. It worked for me. Then you make things the best way possible when you write the story for a second time... like... feeling the gaps, making sure everything goes smooth and that you know your characters.

If you're writing sth big, in pages and everything, then it'll be a tough one shorting things out.  

Answer 7

The answer has always been - get writing.  This gets the brain working.  Never sit thinking.  Just write.