After reading my last post, someone asked me: How do you combat Writer's Block?
The good news: There's easy medication for it, and it tastes like strawberries!
1) Read a book.
I don’t mean read and forget the main character’s name. I mean analyze it, suck it dry. Criticize it as four men would standing around a poor man fixing a heater.
2) Read the world.
Read it as you would a good book.
Magic of the World
3) Read the soul.
Ninety nine percent of all story (even
Thomas the Train) surrounds the human soul. Every great literary artist, Coelho, Shakespeare, Lawrence, Dickinson, all, in some form or another, obsessed with our humanity, our human soul.
4) Be fearless.
The most painful part of the writer’s block disease is that blank page shouting at you to write something awesome. Kick it and write.
5) When all is said and done, there should be so much bubbling in your heart that all you have to do is
“Write the truest sentence you know.” (
Hemmingway, a survivor of writer’s block).
Kerouac's rules to writing.
