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A Weird Trick to Get Out of a Writer’s Block and How It Worked for Me
Something that may inspire you
As a writer, I am all too familiar with the dreaded "writer’s block." There have been times when I have spent hours staring at a blank page, unable to come up with a single idea. And while I know that the best way to overcome this is to just keep writing, sometimes it feels like an impossible task.
So there I was, a lazy writer, stuck in a writer’s block that seemed impossible to overcome. I had been sitting at my desk for hours, scrolling through social media, trying to distract myself from the fact that I was getting nothing done.
But then, something happened. I received a message from an old friend Jane, whom I hadn’t talked to in years. As we caught up, I mentioned my struggles with writing and how I was feeling stuck.
To my surprise, my friend had some advice for me. She suggested that I try a writing exercise that she had used in the past to help her overcome her own writer’s block. The exercise was simple:
Set a timer for 10 minutes and write without stopping, even if it doesn’t make sense or is completely unrelated to what you’re working on.
