@longhairedirwin
You're NOT alone in this.
Don't give up...
Just, keep pushing through it, a step at a time. A BRICK at a TIME.
Close your eyes...
Take three deep breaths, with each one followed by three long exhales.
Expel everything in each deep breath.
Now that you have replenished your deep cellular oxygen levels, get up and go look in the mirror...Say aloud these three affirmations:
I am a DAMN GOOD WRITER!
I AM WITTY and HELLA TALENTED!
PEOPLE LOVE MY WORKS!
* if you still feel un inspired after all that?*
Go to your each of your works comments columns,
READ ALOUD, ONLY THE GOOD COMMENTS! ThOSE that MAKE YOU feel GOOD about YOUR WRITTEN WORDS!
Ignore the haters, the annoying know it alls; and ANYONE that only makes you feel negative vibes from their unnecessary words, about YOUR made up WORLDS!
Now, go back and MENTALLY BLOCK any of THOSE comments from commenters that were ONLY critical and destructive to your works and NOT constructive criticisms.
After studying this 'self discovery' method once before in College, while going back through my mental notes from then; as well as 'deep dive looking into the mental method of this exercise now; especially due to the four panes of the Johari window, of: open, blind, hidden and unknown; I stumbled upon an actual fact.
IT can not only be used as a tool to dismantle 'writers block'
The Johari Window can also better help us as writers, to better understand our own LOUD inner and the public's EVEN LOUDER, outer criticisms.
If you take a step back, you can frame all of this and use it to YOUR advantage.
This flipping the negatives into positives, once you realize how,
"Criticism's are just another unique way of using the Johari window of Psychology in assisting YOU in being an even BETTER WRITER!"
Imagine the 'block' a brick wall of colorful bricks.
see these bricks as an exit from the 'block'
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