Writers Block Support

Every writer has felt it, the excitement of a story idea, like a seed planted in your mind. You think about it all day, while your at work, eating lunch, in the shower. You finally get to your laptop…

Blank.

The blank page taunts you, as your idea falters and you sigh, turning your laptop off and turning the TV on. You still have the idea, but where do you go with it? What do you do with it?

You go to google:

10 ways to beat writers block.

You try 9 of them.

That pesky story is still hiding in your brain, not wanting to come out.

If being a writer was easy, everyone would do it. Unfortunately there is no quick fix to writers block. Some days, it just happens. But if your like me, your writers block can go on for weeks.

Someone once said that you can’t edit a blank page. If you sit there, ignoring your laptop and idea’s until the writing bug strikes you, you will be 3 years down the line, with 10,000 words and 7 chapters to your name (Personal experience there). Funnily enough the way to beat writers block. Is write, even if afterwards you think – What the hell is that?

You have written more than if you hadn’t opened your laptop, and who knows, maybe in the ramblings of your inner writings, there’s something special there.

As a prolific procrastinator, who after work does really not want to sit at a laptop for another few hours, even though my head is bursting to the seams with ideas, my one tip would be…

An egg timer,

Or your phone, either will do.

Put a timer on for 15 minutes. Sit and write. The amount of times I have done this, and 6 hours later I am still typing away. It doesn’t matter if it’s good, it’s there, and you can edit it from there.

At least you have something other than a blank page.