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How to Overcome Writer's Block: Clinical Critical Chunks

By Michael Straessle, published Jun 03, 2008
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Clinical critical chunks, card-carrying treacherously cordoned, call it what you like, but in simple terms (not so simple to deal with) it is still incomprehensible writer's block! If you've been a writer for very long you have experienced this profundity connected to writing. But, what does a writer do when faced with such a trapestry (my word: trapped behind the wall-hangings)? I have read and heard many different people from Mike Rose in his The Cognitive Dimension to little ole me (known only by the crazies around Mayflower, Arkansas) who present writer's block as par for the course to make such a big deal about it. From my twenty years in the writing industry I have come to the conclusion that life's obstacles are not much different than what proficient writers experience in their own "private" world of words and passion which tend to overcome them from time to time. Thus, I offer a few steps I use to climb, jump, dig underneath, or plough a tunnel through these ominous obstacles.

1 After oozing off into the ozone for what seems like an eternity, I finally realize if I don't write something soon I will more than likely do something stupid like drink too much coffee at midnight....so I write...scribble....bubble....whatever

2 Step two in this process is to NOT edit what you scribble. Rather, keep doing it until you strike upon something that stands out from the rest. For example: someone stole my life today, but it wasn't a someone as much as it was a something maybe it was mind or paradigm or huge boulder constantly blocking my way to clarity of thought but it is to no avail I can't make heads or tails of anything that is running through my head right now..........(and on and on)

3 Normally, it doesn't take long before I find solace in the fact that I have written something.....and in that realization alone I feel like a Navy Seal who has crept up on the enemy without his knowledge....I fooled him....ha....I wrote something! This means I'm not so blocked as I thought.

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