Motivational Moments…Cure Writer’s Block #37

Cure writer’s block INSTANTLY! With one simple idea: Give yourself permission to write GARBAGE.  You probably won’t actually write garbage but by giving yourself permission, you remove the block. What is writer’s block?  It is the need for perfection..the need to avoid looking stupid. If you can’t write well you won’t write at all. Here’s an exercise:

1. Open your file; what you are working on.
2. Think about what you wish you could write if you weren’t blocked.
3. Set a timer for three minutes.
4. Now write garbage! 
5. Write as much as you can in three minutes.That’s it! The block is gone because you gave yourself permission to write garbage. But you might say: ‘I don’t want to write garbage, I want to write quality.’
   A little voice in your head is saying, ‘this is awful, stop! You look foolish.’ That is the block talking.  The critic’s voice. The critic’s voice is a good thing but it is jumping in before it’s time; it’s judging your writing before it is even created. That’s writer’s block.

   “It is perfectly okay to write garbage–as long as you edit brilliantly.”  C.J. Cherryh

   “Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.” — Ernest Hemingway

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