How You Can Overcome Writers Block

byValerieJoy

7.8K followers

4 years ago

Hi folks,

A hour or so ago I read a most inspiring post written by Pastor Derry. This post so enlightened me that I just had to take myself off to SiteContent and start writing.

I have followed the stated rules, as closely as possible for this first attempt. Pastor Derry, in his blog, advises to read different sources as a starting point. However, I found his article alone adequate to get myself started with a long overdue post.

So, I asked myself the question - Why is it that creating content is something I find difficult to do these days? For goodness’ sake, how can I possibly expect to be a successful blogger if I find myself stuck for words when sitting at the computer.

• Is it the keyboard that is scary?

• Maybe I have the room too light or too dark to see the screen.

• Or, perhaps I am suffering from a phobia of some kind.

Yeah, on thinking for about 2 or 3 minutes I decided that it surely must be a phobia. So, when I looked up phobia in my Merriam-Webster dictionary it tells me the meaning is:

: an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation

I found that explanation to be scary. How could I possibly be fearful of my computer, being the object; or situation, having written and published content within my own office for the past 10 years, or longer.

Therefore, it can't be a phobia I'm suffering from. So, back to Merriam-Webster to see if I can find the answer to this abysmal situation.

Due to using the word abysmal, I thought it wise to clarify the meaning. So here it is:

: having immense or fathomless extension downward, backward, or inward

Goodness, gracious, I cannot put myself in a class so debilitating as that. In fact, I took umbrage at myself for allowing a condition such as a fathomless extension in any direction to enter my space, mind or whatever!

Have I allowed my daily round to be so mundane that all ideas have dried up. No enlightenment, no exploration outside of my bubble allowed. But, do I not have the world at my finger tips? I most certainly do. There is the world-wide web sitting on my desktop, laptop, mobile phone, tablet and a portion to view from my lounge window.

I have family and friends to speak with on the phone, be it landline or mobile.

Therefore, I will no longer allow myself to dwell in the misanthropic manner that has been haunting me for far too long.

: misanthropic meaning: having or showing a deep distrust of human beings and their motives

It could be that misanthropic is not suitable in that sentence, but I just had to use it because it sounded good!!

I mean to say, how could I be distrusting of the circles I have involved myself in. Absolutely no way do I distrust any one of my friends be they online or physically viewable.

Without the Wealthy Affiliate community in my life I'm not sure what I could do to enjoy each day, particularly at this time of lock-down. My WA friends are my inspiration. Clearly, as mentioned above, the inspiration for this content came from a Wealthy Affiliate member, Pastor Derry.

From this day forward, I will explore the rose-coloured atmosphere to be viewed and experienced whichever direction I turn to.

As WA members we are so fortunate that people willingly share and help one another.

A big 'Thank You' to Pastor Derry. And I hope that anyone experiencing difficulty with writers block will read the post he published today. Please see the link below.

my.wealthyaffiliate.com/derrence/blog/ten-rules-for-writing-a-good-article

My best wishes to all.