You Have Not Lost Your Creativity

For writers who can’t write.

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I’ve been there. I’ve talked about it.

You go days, weeks, and even months when you can’t write anything.

You sit down every day, open your laptop, and you write words, but half an hour later, you realize they don’t make sense.

You get your journal and a pen, and you scribble some ideas, but you don’t know where to start.

With every day that passes, you get more frustrated because it’s not like you’re not trying.

You’re doing what all the professional authors say — you’re sitting down and writing anything that pops to mind. But it doesn’t help.

Eventually, you start doubting your skills as a writer. Maybe you’re not meant to be a published author or a successful blogger. You had a good run, but it’s over now.

It wasn’t talent — just luck.

And now you’ve lost all of your creativity. You can’t write, so that must be it. All the words in you, the stories, the ideas — they’re all gone, and they’re probably never coming back.

But that’s not true.