Today, I will discuss and advice you about writer's block. Well if anyone hasn't declared this the number one enemy for all writers, then I'm declaring it now! Take my word for it.... Trust!
For those of you who have no idea about this (be happy you don't), Writer's block is a condition, mainly associated with writing, in which an author loses the ability to produce new work, or experiences a creative slowdown.
The condition ranges in difficulty from coming up with original ideas to being unable to produce a work for years. In my case, the longest amount of time I've had writer's block was for almost two (2) years.
The thing about writer's block is that experiencing this eventually leads to you forgetting about whatever piece you're stuck on: be it a novel or whatever. You would end up reading a lot of articles, visiting various websites and even purchase one or two books to help understand and defeat this but they mostly DO NOT HELP!!
Sometimes you feel that maybe your idea wasn't great after all and this is the finish line you never saw coming but this isn't the case. Writer's block is more of something you overcome, not defeat.
Think of it as a wall......in fact numerous walls that keep obscuring your path to the finish line. Instead of finishing the race, straightforward and headstrong, you'll have to compromise and jump over a few walls and go around others.
One thing I've learnt is that the problem may not be the idea you are trying to express but how you express/expressed it and usually its found back in the story. You must realize that to every action, there is an effect.
Go back to the previous chapters and examine what action or choice made caused the situation you're writing on but seems to be getting blocked and re-evaluate your options. Take to note that its your story in the end, tell it however you want to.
In the following chapters (not in order or sequence), ill be discussing a few ways to counter writer's block.
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