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How To Break Writer’s Block
When you’re stuck, use these six tips to crack the block.
Let’s begin with truth: Every writer has felt writer’s block on some level. You aren’t the only one, and it’s not just struggling writers or young writers or failing writers. Everyone who attempts to write well for an extended period of time will probably experience some form of writer’s block.
Jhumpa Lahiri, who wrote The Interpreter Of Maladies — which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction — said this about writer’s block: “I think writer’s block is a natural part of the creative process for almost all writers.”
Coleson Whitehead, winner of the National Book Award for fiction for his novel The Underground Railroad said, “Writer’s block for me is a question I haven’t solved yet.”
And Toni Morrison — a Nobel Laureate for literature — when interviewed about her most famous novel Beloved, said “I thought about it for three years…though I hadn’t put a word down.”
Writing is difficult and it demands regular discipline — not something most humans are blessed with. Because I’ve published 6 books in the past decade, other authors have called me “prolific.”…
