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Using Writer’s Block to Help Your Writing Career
Tips to further your career, even when you’re not writing.
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I’ve read approximately 40 bajillion books on writing. If a book touches upon the writing craft, the writing life, writing inspiration, writer’s block, or the business of writing, I’ve read it. And if there’s one piece of advice that connects each of these books, it’s this: To be a writer, you must write.
It’s a good — albeit obvious — tip. The only way to get better as a writer is to sit and do the work. But what about those days when the mere act of placing one word after another feels insurmountable? Those days when you stare at the monitor and lay your fingers on the keys, but the ideas just won’t come? When you try desperately to form a coherent thought — just a few words that will form a sentence that will form a paragraph that will form a page — but all that fills your brain is a vast empty space void of inspiration?
On those days when writer’s block won’t budge, when you are incapable of drafting even the most basic of phrases, are you still a writer?
Of course you are.
