WRITER'S BLOCK: INFINITE SOLUTIONS

Despite the fact that in this blog I give suggestions for dealing with writer's block, and despite the fact that I have an ebook, OVERCOME WRITER'S BLOCK EASILY, there are not a finite number of solutions to writer's block.

This came home to me as  I read a recent magazine put out by Writer's Digest.  It's a yearbook on novel writing.  Yet, there are many things in there that apply to nonfiction as well.

As regards writer's block, the author of the article interviewed three writers and himself.  While this is a small number, what was meaningful was that each of the authors had a distinctively different way to deal with writer's block.  The only consistency was that all faced writer's block.  Therefore, even from the small sample we can conclude that writer's block will occur if you write.  Writer's block is probably the most frequent complaint of writers and wannabe writers.   It's not something to be afraid of or to dread.  Rather, it is something you can become better at dealing with the more you pay attention to yourself and what works for you.

There are no quick fixes, but there are solutions.  As many as there are people who write.