“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of. ” ~
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🖋 Writers’ Wisdom: No More Writer’s Block
“My best advice about writer’s block is: the reason you’re having a hard time writing is because of a conflict between the GOAL of writing well and the FEAR of writing badly. By default, our instinct is to conquer the fear, but our feelings are much, much, less within our control than the goals we set, and since it’s the conflict BETWEEN the two forces blocking you, if you simply change your goal from “writing well” to “writing badly,” you will be a veritable fucking fountain of material. . . .” Dan Harmon
Writers’ Wisdom: Cure for Writer’s Block
“If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to sleep, make a pie, draw, listen to music, meditate, exercise; whatever you do, don’t just stick there scowling at the problem. But don’t make telephone calls or go to a party; if you do, other people’s words will pour in where your lost words should be. Open a gap for them, create a space. Be patient.” ~ Hilary Mantel
Writer’s Wisdom ~ Ending Writer’s Block
The inner critic creates writer’s block and stifles adventurous writing, hems it in with safe clichés and overthinking. Every writer has to find his or her own way to get free of that sourpuss rationalist who insists on strangling each thought with logical analysis and fitting each idea into an oppressive predetermined scheme or ideology. William S. Burroughs, one of the most adventurous writers to emerge from the mid-20th century, famously employed what he called the cut-up method. . . . this literary take on the collage technique used by avant-garde artists . . . who “proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out of a hat.”
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Writer’s Wisdom on Writer’s Block #6 of 6 Tips
I would never write first — I don’t think that’s good at all. As soon as you write in language, it becomes frozen. It’s better to think first — to think for a long time — and then write when you’re ready to write. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
Writer’s Wisdom on Writer’s Block #5 of 6 Tips
The blank page gives a horizon for what you can write, because you always have this conflict between what you want to say and what you could say. And writing is this conflict. ~ Allaa Al-Aswany
Writer’s Wisdom on Writer’s Block Tip 4 of 6
I don’t think “writer’s block” actually exists. It’s basically insecurity — it’s your own internal critic turned up to a higher level than it’s supposed to be at that moment, because when you’re starting a work — when the page is blank, when the canvas is open — your critic has to be turned down to zero… The point is actually to get stuff on paper, just to allow yourself to kind of flow. It is only by writing that you’ll discover characters, ideas, things like this. ~ Phipipp Meyer
Writer’s Wisdom on Writer’s Block Tip 2 of 6
A blank page is also a door — it contains infinity, like a night sky with a supermoon really close to the Earth, with all the stars and the galaxies, where you can see very, very clearly… You know how that makes your heart beat faster? ~ David Mitchell
Writer’s Wisdom on Writer’s Block Tip 1 of 6
The blank page in the mind has to be filled before you have the courage to face the actual blank page. ~ Jonathon Franzen
