May 22, 2011
When I decided to plunge into the insane world of the online, no one told me that I would need to get my act together so far as my writing was concerned. My first realization of this surely came when I started to blog. With high enthusiasm and ready to paint my ideas with black digital ink, I suddenly found myself in a situation where I just stirred at the screen with my hands hovering on top of the keyboard like a zombie. Yep, I was hit by the writer’s block syndrome.
Luckily for me, I have devised some means which enable me to get back on track when I find myself in this peculiar situation. Perhaps my remedies would also assist your case.
- Stop thinking, just write!
Although I don’t have the scientific data to back this up, you and I know that a blank sheet of paper just has a way of sucking one into a state of oblivion. Unless you decide to zap out of this state by beginning to write, we may lose you in dream land for a while.
- Take a break
If the crazy writing doesn’t cut it (writing without thinking), just take a short break from your work. That may all be just what you need.
- Stay focused and take it easy
High pressure situations will almost always suck the creativity out of you. Being an online entrepreneur, you may find yourself under self-inflicted pressure to make money or even deliver on certain obligations within a specified time-frame. When you start to detect this pattern in your work, try to break out of it while still staying focused on your dream. Remind yourself of why you started out in the first place. Remember that it always takes I little bit of patience and a lot of dedication.
- Find your Inspiration triggers
As a writer, you’re going to have to be inspired in order to keep producing good quality content. As individuals, we are inspired by different situations. What are your specific inspiration triggers? Why are you no longer engaging in the sort of activities that specifically cause you to generate a thousand ideas? As soon as you find the answers to these questions, you will soon get back to writing.
Have you devised a method of dealing with writer’s block that you would like to share? We would highly appreciate your most valued input in the form a comment below.
Keep well,
Mohau Mpoti
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What helps me sometimes is to break the assignment in chunks so that it doesn’t appear so daunting. For example, I write questions about the topic I am supposed to write and answer them, then I delete the questions and edit the draft I am left with. Another thing that works sometimes is to step away from the computer and pick up pen and paper.
Great suggestions Ana! Thanks a lot
5) Copious amounts of illegal drugs
Just kidding. Great ideas. Just recently I wrote a blog that had to do with the fact that I didn’t know what to write a blog about. It actually helped me come up with a lot of other things to write about.
I know the feeling Taurean. I hope you find the needed inspiration to keep coming up with stuff to write about
Hello Mohau,
Thanks for your post, I am all for the ‘Just Write-approach’ as you can see in one of my recent posts, titled: http://hpshappyhomebusiness.blogspot.com/2011/06/are-you-afraid-for-blank-page.html Besides a Home Business Blog where I write about things like Affiliate Marketing so you are alway’s welcome to – Just Write – Comments on any of my Blogposts.
All the Best,
To your Happy - Home Business - Inspiration,
HP
Great blog HP! I’ve just checked it out
Thanks for visiting my blog and for writing
a comment on my post,
Hope you like my blog, in an effort to make it more enjoyable and easy for readers to find the information they want, – near the top of my blog – I recently created a few new links to (Dedicated) Pages, with besides a Page for people that are New to Affiliate Marketing also – amung other things – a page specially for for example Guest Writers and a page where you can find interesting Books to be able to get more Business Inspiration, You can even find a Handy Online Calculator.
‘It’s alway’s nice to see that I have actual visitors to my blog
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To make sure that the ‘Massive Amount’ of visitors to my blog can also find your blog I wrote an actual post with your link in it just minutes ago you can find it at:
http://hpshappyhomebusiness.blogspot.com/2011/06/look-what-home-business-blog-i.html
All the Best,
To your Happy – Home Business – Inspiration,
2HP