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(Updated 1/10/2023)
Do you feel a bit flustered about facing writer’s block?
Does your WP backoffice stare at you with a blinking cursor?
Writer’s block frustrates even the most resolute bloggers.
Goodness knows I’ve faced this dastardly foe from time to time.
If you’re looking for tips to cure writer’s block you probably want to bang your head against the wall.
Suffering through this block can be a painful, confidence-killing experience. New bloggers often quit blogging all together for fear of not being able to overcome this mental malady. Struggling bloggers forfeit blogging for months because writer’s block assails these individuals. Writer’s block appears to end blogging careers before these bloggers give themselves a fair shot to succeed.
Even successful bloggers aren’t immune from this insidious mental block. Skilled pros sometimes face fears aligned with writing blog posts. Everyone who blogs face this frustrating limiting belief. Learning how to overcome the block promotes both your prolific nature and peace of mind.
Writer’s Block
Imagine how relieved you’ll feel after slaying this dastardly foe?
Defeat writer’s block to:
- become prolific
- increase blog traffic
- boost blogging profits
- promote your peace of mind
Bloggers enjoy each worldly benefit of conquering this mental foe but experiencing peace of mind may be the most pleasing upside of letting go the inner enemy. First you feel at peace mentally. Being prolific follows with increasingly less effort. Life flows inside-out. Humans maintain a certain mindset before acting and seeing results. Feeling peaceful within makes for far easier writing.
You can do it. Put writer’s block largely in your past. Follow these 10 tips to cure writer’s block.
1: Meditate
Meditate.
Be with the feeling of writer’s block to face, embrace and release the idea.
Writer’s block is a mental block. This energy dissolves if you become fully aware of the limiting idea.
Meditating expands your awareness.
Meditate in a quiet spot for 5 to 20 minutes daily. Do not overreach. Begin with 5 minutes. Add increments to gradually expand your awareness.
Follow your breathing. Â Trace the inflow and outflow of breath through your nostrils.
Relax.
If your attention wanders just note the object of the attention – a thought, feeling, memory, or desire – and move your attention back to your breathing.
Meditating daily is the #1 tool in my “writer’s block dissolving” arsenal.
Be with your limiting beliefs to release these illusions.
Note; finding a quiet space means removing all distractions. Let go all hinderances to meditating. Turn off your phone. Place it in a lockbox if need be. Close the door. Relax.
Set up a silent environment to meditate properly. Meditate effectively to dissolve writer’s block.
2: Write 1,000 Words Daily
Write 1,000 words daily – or more – to slay writer’s block.
Develop a writing habit to write habitually. Writing habitually cures writer’s block.
Form a habit through diligent practice. The habit eventually acts through its own momentum.Â
Write daily to nudge through mental blocks. Sit in front of a computer. Open a Word document. Write. Cover any topic. Being a prolific writer means strengthening your writing muscle daily. Strong writers rarely fall prey to writer’s block.
Treat writing sessions like a fun job. Employees rarely miss a day of work. Rarely miss a writing day to become prolific. Defeat writer’s block by purging writing weakness fueling the block.
Write daily no matter what. Make no excuses. Practice diligently.
Edging through uncomfortable writing practice sessions goads you to defeat writer’s block. Put in the time and work to become a prolific blogger.
3: Exercise Daily
Exercising daily promotes energy flow throughout your body.
An energetic block – like writer’s block – cannot reside in a free-flowing stream of energy.
Walk for 40 minutes daily. Take a stroll around your block. You do not need to be an Olympic athlete to exercise. Simply move. Get going. Increase energy flow within your body.
Do push ups or sit ups. Promote energy flow to dissipate fears related to writer’s block. Exercising is a simple way to increase your prolific nature because basic movements dislodge energies fueling writing limiting beliefs.
Walking around your house for a few moments does the trick sometimes. Move. Allow your energy to flow. Be a free-flowing writer by moving along fears courtesy of moving your body for a bit.
Before following this tip just check with your doctor if you haven’t exercised recently.
Exercising daily offers you a wide range of benefits related to blogging. Energize yourself for your blogging work day. Overcome fatigue. Feel good about your blogging prospects. Exercise daily to bolster your blogging campaign.
4: Read Voraciously
Read both fiction and non-fiction voraciously to assail writer’s block.
Find a mix between each writing style to improve your writing skills. Skilled writers dissipate writer’s block.
Most prolific bloggers read religiously to expose themselves to creative ideas.
Best-selling authors are generally avid readers.
Reading stokes your creative energies, supplying you with an endless flow of blog post ideas.
Read for 10-30 minutes daily. Develop a reading habit to put writer’s block behind you. Feast on the written word to write words with greater ease. Avid readers become skilled writers through osmosis.
5: Write in Silence
Reduce all distractions. Tuning into distractions like the TV or your phone creates noise. Noise tends to enhance writer’s block.Â
Imagine attempting to write blog posts being beset by a frenzied mind? Meditating helps to quiet your mind but writing in quiet further enhances your writing skills.
Isolate yourself from all forms of stimuli. Some writers feel prolific by listening to music but many write freely in silence. Being in quiet tends to silence inner negative chatter. Remove sensory overload to quiet the chatter.
Find a quiet room. Shut the door. Let ideas gracefully flow from silence to your mind to your fingers to your keyboard.
Give yourself quiet time to write by alerting family about your daily habit. Make sure they respect your writing ritual. Family gives you what you give family, habits-wise. Be serious about writing in quiet. Observe how your family respects your serious writing habit.
6: Take Short Frequent Breaks from Writing
Take a 5 to 10 minute break from writing each hour to lessen tension in your being.
Writer’s block is a force-filled energy created by tense, anxious, worried writers.
Pull back. Walk for a few minutes. Take 10 deep breaths.
Step away from your laptop to renew your mind.
Then…..write.
Avoid the common mistake of forcing your way through writer’s block. Bloggers vow to sit for hours until ideas flow from mind to WordPress backoffice. However, force negates because fear blocks the creative flow. Trying hard to overcome this block actually strengthens the block. This is why writers seem to be tortured souls. Stop trying hard to stop torturing yourself.
Give yourself a break on the hour. Relax. Take breaks to refresh your mind. Feel good mentally to write freely.
Set an alarm to snag your attention span. Give yourself
7: See the Truth
Writer’s block is an idea.
An idea is a bunch of squiggly little energy waves in your mind.
Will you allow a bunch of little itty bitty energy waves to dam your creative powers?
The ego seems clever. The ego appears to create an idea that you cannot possibly find words to write, edit and package into a blog post. Don’t buy it. Don’t buy in to the ego’s silliness.
Bloggers and authors often lend an otherworldly, absurdly intimidating power to these tiny little waves of energy.
But the waves are wimps and you are unlimited power.
Release the teeny energy waves. Dissolve writer’s block.
Bonus Tip
Release bloggers who complain about suffering through this blog persistently. Let them go. Stop communicating with bloggers who surrender to this illusion. Give your energy to prolific bloggers who know the truth; fear is illusion. Humans live in abundance.
Surrounding yourself with blogging pros allows these individuals to influence you through osmosis.
8: Study Prolific Writers
Pay close attention to writers who ship diligently.
Study prolific writers. Follow their ways. Embody their habits.
Writers who publish a high volume of quality work clue you in. Writing pros alert you to what it takes to become mind-numbingly prolific.
World renowned author John Grisham wrote for a short period daily even during his busy days as a lawyer.
Prolific writers leave clear clues. Observe these pros in action. Do as prolific writers do. Dissolve writer’s block as they dissolved writer’s block.
9: Jump into an Icy Cold Shower in the Morning
Do you want an intense but foolproof tip for conquering writer’s block?
Hop into an icy cold shower as soon as you wake up each day.
Tony Robbins and Tim Ferriss both introduced me to the delightful benefits and horrifying dread of hopping into a cold shower on waking.
Take a cold shower to promote energy flow and to dissolve mental blocks like good old writer’s block.
Speak to your doctor before doing the icy cold shower routine. Get the go ahead prior to giving your body – and ticker – the delicious shock.
10: Dissect Your Blog Posts
Revisit a portion of your blog post before slamming into writer’s block.
Dissect the section to overcome the mental block.
For example, I mentioned taking cold showers to overcome writer’s block for the prior tip. Dissecting the cold shower tip spurs me to either share a similar tip for the following tip or to flesh out the cold shower tip. Perhaps you live in the tropics. Cold showers rarely exist in locales where hot conditions super-heat water pipes. Adding 100-200 extra words for a cold shower alternate improves writing flow to dissolve writer’s block.
Think through earlier stages of blog posts. What can you expand? How can you elaborate? What details can you add to blog posts?
Carefully dissect posts to dissolve mental blocks to writing.
Conclusion
Follow each tip diligently.
Defeat writer’s block through a deliberate approach.
Once you follow this sound strategy for slaying this persistent foe you will become a prolific writer.
Put writer’s block in your rear view mirror.
Enjoy the sweet benefits of publishing detailed blog posts frequently.
