Writer's Block

Have you hit a roadblock in your writing? No matter what you believe about writer's block, it's a real problem for many writers. Sometimes writer's block is a short-term problem with a simple solution. Sometimes it's not. For some authors, writer's block can last for months at a time and be a career-derailing event.

Each of us determines how severe a problem writer's block becomes for us. We look for solutions in our way and we decide what writer's block is. No one definition is always going to be right, simply because blocks in our writing are often very personal issues that we must work out on our own.

The collection of articles and tips on this website is intended to offer a variety of solution options. There are also resources that writers can use to help them through the difficulties and problems that writer's block sometimes signals. I hope you find them useful when you're combating your own writer's block.

About Writer's Block

• Is writer's block real? Some authors don't believe writer's block is real, but I say it's all in how you define it.
• Do you have writer's block? How to tell.
• Why do you have writer's block? Find the cause, pinpoint the problem before you look for a solution.
• Solve writer's block.

I originally wrote the writer's block series of articles for another website I was playing with, but ultimately, they've ended up here. I hope you find them helpful.

Things that might help you get over writer's block

• A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words: Image Driven Story Prompts and Exercises for Writers can help you find inspiration in the world around you. The prompts and exercises to put you into the writing frame of mind.
• The Writer's Portable Therapist: 25 Sessions to a Creativity Cure is full of creativity exercises and practical advice.
• The Writer's Block addresses creativity and offers idea starters.
• Writing from the Inside Out: Transforming Your Psychological Blocks to Release the Writer Within addresses the psychological aspects of writer's block.
• Visual Thesaurus uses visual cues to help you cure your writer's block. The Visual Thesaurus can help you use word associations to break through a creativity dry spell.
• The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction presents writing exercises to inspire you even when your ideas seem to have been left behind in your last dream.
• The 4 A.M. Breakthrough: Unconventional Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction offers writing exercises you can use as you try to break through writer's block.
• Writer's Dreamkit supplies inspiration and ideas that can help you move forward in your writing.
• Power Writer software can organize your story so you don't become blocked by overwhelm. (There's a demo download for Windows available.)