Just Another Bit of Writing Advice

Samantha Altizer
Jul 20, 2017 · 2 min read

So I see it all the time people asking how to get over a hump, writer’s block, procrastination, or whatever you would like to call it. Today I saw someone ask this same question yet again, and as I am no exception to the flame that is called many things, (at the moment I call mine exhaustion) I thought I would put in my two cents.

My answer is simply this write. If you feel you can’t write on your story, then simply write on something else. I for example come here and bore you all to tears with my writing, others may find it good to go make up a wild story about a boy who delivers papers and what he sees each morning, and still others may just find it easier to write down some good recipes from their family’s haydays. Whatever you do, write. The advise is some that I have seen given by famous authors and some that I used to brush off. They don’t know me, they don’t know my story, why should I listen to them? Well the answer is easy, yes they may not know me or my story, but they do know what makes a good story. They also know something else, if you don’t write and stay in the practice of writing, the story you really want to tell will never get written.

Do you think that the greats of yester-year said “Oh I’m stuck let me just put writing aside and come back to it whenever.”? While they may have taken a break from a beloved classic for a while, there are usually other stories they wrote in the mean time that might not be as popular. Louisa May Alcott is a prime example we know of at least 14 books she wrote, but most people only know of her one title.

Today’s authors are no different. J.K. Rowling probably has a draw full of stories we will never see until the time of her death. Why? Because when we get stuck on one story most authors I have met are rarely short on ideas for others. Sometimes taking a step back from one story and letting your mind wander to another and then coming back to the original gives our minds a chance to give the story a whole new look, and improve upon our story telling abilities.

The most important thing is to keep on writing, and to not give up on your stories or yourself. Keep pushing onward and you will eventually find that a finished manuscript is sitting in front of you. (Now editing and publishing are another story all together.) Well after this little article, I guess I should be off to write. I wish you all luck, and hope to see some of your names on the cover of a book I buy one day. Anyone have any books published already?

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Samantha Altizer

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