Writer's Block

Some of these tomes will open you like a window and let it all hang out. Others will flash some skin. Others will make you weepy, with a whopping hangover after. And, some, I can promise, you just might hate.

There has been no shortage of wreckage at our feet from this past year and we’ll have to clean it up. There is no getting around that. But kindly, there is a rope ladder to ascend.

I don’t think I’m alone. I think there are plenty of people that have a novel in them worth reading, if only they could find the time to write it. This is where November comes in.

We all are in search of our profound thoughts, that bit of brilliance we know is waiting to come to us. You know what I’m talking about. That boom moment that will make you a lot of money. That inspiration that will write your novel for you. Get you a zillion followers. Change your life.

“Oh, remember those ten books and multiple short stories you wrote? Well, sorry, you stopped writing for a year so none of that counts. You’re no longer a writer.”

I was getting desperate and in need of an immediate solution. What I found instead was a gross overabundance of proclaimed expertise on the topic. I decided to test out these suggested methods for curbing writer’s block and report back so that you don’t have to.

Are you the type who gets overly anxious about approaching deadlines and/or wanders off to “mindless internetting time” during productive hours (like me)?

I realized that if I could just find a way to sincerely convince myself that writing was essential to having a good day, I’d be set.

Getting that daily writing prompt is like taking allergy medication. It probably won’t work the first time you try it, but after a while it starts to build up in your system.

Ask me what my passions are, and I’ll include writing and creating positive change in the world. Ask me what I do for a living—I’ll say the same. Lucky me!

It did feel kind of insane to continue pushing a start-up forward from a room in a pediatric bone marrow transplant unit.