How to Improve Your Writing and Stop Writer’s Block
Cross Crawl to Engage Your Whole Brain
If you’re an engineer, you’re probably left-brain dominant. But if you’re a poet, your right-brain is in charge. Nothing wrong with this simple explanation . . . except that it’s too simple.
To simplify even further, the right side of your brain is the creative part of your brain; the left side the analytical. Several years ago, a popular “parlor game,” was labeling our own brains and the brains of our friends as either left-brain or right-brain. Kind of a stupid game and happily appears to have gone out of fashion.
By the way, nobody is 100 percent right brain or left brain.
But as with every simplification there is some truth. Take writing, for example: the left-side of your brain knows the rules of grammar and probably so well that you rarely make a grammatical mistake when writing for Medium.
The right-side of your brain helps you create interesting stories that folks want to read. Maybe it’s something fun? Something unusual? Or has an emotional impact?
If you’re stuck in the left side of your brain, what you’ve written is probably boring. Think a computer manual for writing html code. If you’re stuck in the
right side of your brain, there’s a good chance…
