Kick the Block: Writing Tips When You Got the Blues

Writers have all faced the block. In fact, I am facing one right now. How do you write about writing tips when you have writer’s block. Well, I knew I had to do this so I decided to perform some of the old tried and truisms.

One thing that has always helped me is to take a drive. Nowadays this might seem to be environmentally irresponsible, but when the words just won’t drop, nothing is more helpful to me than a drive. A teacher of mine once told me that the method of performing a task that you really are not consciously doing helps to clear your mind.

Now, I don’t mean to say that I was not conscious while driving but as I whipped around those well-known corners, my mind was in a sort of hypnotic state. Does this sound a little crazy? Too bad. It works.

Other writers have told me that they turn on their favorite music, and blot out all other thoughts. Some tap dance, take a walk, or do deep breathing exercises.

One rather eccentric writer friend of mine told me that he would go to the refrigerator, stare lovingly at the contents, and then go back to his writing chores. God knows why this works. But, it did, for him. I think every writer has their own way of writing.

And in the end of it, we all find out own way of kicking the block. No matter how weird, how unique, how totally over the edge, writer’s block can not keep a good writer down. We will find a way around those bricks and come out fighting for those next few words.