Just write, will ya?!
One step to overcoming that annoying writer’s block
Writers gonna write. But sometimes it gets haaaard. Sometimes writing becomes a monkey, NO! a gorilla on your back.
I’ve been writing for money (not excluding the pleasure) for about two years now. In the life cycle of a ‘serious writer’ it’s a blink of an eye, I know. But it doesn’t mean I haven’t encountered all those bukowskian stages of writer’s despair.
Writer’s block is a natural state for me.
Ok, I am not talking about such block when you can’t write for months or years and your whole carreer dangles on a thread. I am talking about that
- state of mind when you sit in front of a blank page for a half an hour;
- that feeling of your guts turning in ‘cause your brain is dehydrating from the lack of ideas;
- that void, when you keep browsing through endless threads of articles just to find yourself feeling even more pathetic...
So I’ve had that today. In fact, minutes ago. I couldn’t concentrate to write a serious piece for my work. Ideas were bouncing off my brain like it was infested with chicken pox or something.
What I did is I started writing.
I had thoughts that were cluttering my mind for awhile and they wouldn’t let me concentrate on the work related stuff.
So I wrote them down.
Over the course of 30 minutes, I created three drafts for new stories here on Medium. The effect was instant.
- Old ideas were safely put to rest without risking to lose them.
- Space for new ideas was available.
- Plus, that flimsy writing warmed me up for the serious stuff.
So I suggest writing it down. Whatever it is spinning inside your beautiful mind — a story, a joke, a recipe — write it down, work on what’s currently important, come back to those extra ideas later.
