Beat Writer’s Block With Help From The 4 Elements

Writers Write creates writing resources and shares writing tips. In this post, we discuss how to beat writer’s block with help from the 4 elements.

Beating The Imaginary Block

1. Stop using family as an excuse.
2. Find the best writing environment for you – quiet room, a laptop anywhere, a favourite coffee shop.
3. Use the best equipment for you – a pen and paper, a PC, a typewriter, a Dictaphone.
4. Use your senses and start paying attention to everything.
5. Start a writing routine and stick to it – it’s work, not a hobby.
6. Give yourself a deadline.
7. Make a Do Not Enter sign for your writing room and pin it to the door.
8. Learn how to say no.

1. Writers always write – keep that diary.
2. Draw on real feelings rather than experiences.
3. Write for 10 minutes without pause, even if the words make no sense.
4. Write in a stressful environment for 10 minutes every day.
5. Remember a time when you felt real joy and climb into that moment.
6. Heal that hole in your soul by writing it out so that you can go on.
7. Avoid the crowd. They will give unprofessional and often unsolicited advice.
8. Avoid asking friends / family members to read your manuscript. They will never be entirely honest. More importantly, they don’t know what they’re doing.

1. If you’re stuck on a scene move to another.
2. Leave a sentence uncompleted – you can fix it up later.
3. Work with other people who write.
4. Go on a creative writing course.
5. Write something you’ve never written before.
6. Write an article for a magazine on why you can’t write.
7. Rewrite your main characters’ biographies.
8. Rewrite a scene from one of your favourite books.
9. Try writing a scene for another genre.
10. Write in another viewpoint.

1. Research something.
2. Listen to music you enjoy or watch a film you love.
3. Communicate with a writer who inspires you – it’s easy with the Internet.
4. Read a book on how to write.
5. Get off the Internet – read magazines, newspapers.
6. Keep notebooks.
7. Paint / draw / meditate.
8. Join a book club – you’ll meet some interesting characters.
9. Go to an astrologer / tarot card reader / psychic.
10. Reinvent yourself – go bungee jumping, pick up that spider you’re afraid of, or talk to that stranger.

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