How To Overcome Creative Block? Try Free-Writing Technique To "Unblock" Writer's Block.
Hey, Wealthy Affiliate fam!
Today's topic is "How To Overcome Creative Block?".
I will be short yet still hope you find this post useful if you are experiencing challenges in writing new content for your blog.
After publishing an unusually large amount of blog posts (for me personally) the last few weeks, I came to a point that is usually called "writer's block".
This is a rare occasion for me, so I had to remember what knowledge do I have to overcome it and deal with it as fast as possible.
After taking a walk to the park, I remembered about the free-writing technique (and even created a training on it here at WA).
What Is Free-Writing?
According to Wikipedia, free-writing is:
"a pre-writing technique in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling, grammar, or topic. It produces raw, often unusable material, but helps writers overcome blocks of apathy and self-criticism".
Funny thing, I had to go through my own training to remember how I did before.
I tried this practice today again, and guess what?
I am already writing up a draft post for my blog that I intend to publish very soon. (Still learning how to use SiteContent properly).
Anyway, we, as bloggers are involved a lot in writing process, so this free-writing exercise will help you unleash your creativity.
Further details on what free-writing is and how to use it to your advantage are in this training tutorial: Free Writing Exercise About Your Book, Article, Blog Post
If it helped me, I hope it will help you too if you are going through the creative block at the moment.
Happy blogging!
Zarina
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Thank you for sharing your technique. I find myself following your training one after another ... Writing tips are always helpful to me as I have a hard time writing at beginning. My problem is my ideas are overflowing too much that I have hard time organizing.
Hey Kyoko! Glad to be of service! I know the feeling of having too many ideas - this free-writing exercise should definitely help (also keep the pages you used for this exercise, you'll be surprised how many ideas you can use for your business!)
Thank you for following me back! Looking forward to getting more advice from you, and many more opportunities to get connected!
You know I'd love to share any info that WA members may find helpful. Thanks for stopping by, Pablo :)
Any piece of information always comes in helpful when you're facing a brick wall, or a white page LOL... thanks for the info :)
Haha - I was staring at this white page for a day today! Until I took a walk to the park and remembered about free-writing exercise. It's amazing how these simple exercises can be so powerful!
Happy to help James, and by the way, I am now your follower!
It's nice meeting you :)
Thank you for the follow :) Good luck here, and I hope your stay will be a pleasant and fruitful one :) Nice meeting you too, Zarina :)
I've been at WA since September 2015 and I don't plan to leave :D
How long have you been a member yourself? Do you enjoy your blogging journey? :)
Cool... I've only been here about a month, or so. I'm still getting to grips with all the technicalities involved, but getting there slowly. I enjoy writing :)
Oh, then welcome to Wealthy Affiliate! It's a great place to learn all about business and blogging, and interact with like-minded individuals :) Trust me, even now after 1.5 years, I still find myself learning more and more about affiliate marketing and other aspects of online business :)
By the way, first training tutorial I created was for beginners - Blog Tips for Beginners In case you find it helpful :)
I'll have a look at your tutorials. I'm sure there's always something to learn :) Many thanks...
James
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Hi Zarina, cool! I don't have writers block, I have the opposite challenge - so many ideas, so little time. ;) Your training sounds interesting though, will check it out. :)
Sorry for late response, Lauren.
For having too many ideas, having a notepad nearby always is a good idea ;)
I hope you enjoyed the training!