Friday, April 10, 2009

Writing through Writers Block

Sometimes I just need to put the pen to the paper, but I'm not always disciplined.
Then a funny thing started happening, when I set a time to write and I kept it no matter what, I saw that it's not that hard to write. And the more I write the easier it becomes.

Now I know how the best selling authors do it, it is all about timetables and deadlines.
In the past I have been strictly guided by the creative forces that were in me, I had to wait until the mood hit, the words pouring from the depth of my soul. It felt good to write and read the words, but that wasn't happening all the time.

So how was I going to transform? From being a casual writer to a writer making money?
How do I take my writing from a sport to a career?

No telephone, no television, no visitors, I write in the midnight hour, it's my best time, What's yours? I write when I don't want too, I write, fueling by a inner power that lets me know that I am being transformed.

Another way that I overcome writers block is when I let it go. If I am working on a certain story, or part of a story, I put it down and write about something else, or edit some work. I just let the source of my block go, for now, and always it comes back. Sometime in the middle of the night, keep a pad and pen by my bed, and if I don't write down the bright idea right away, it's gone by morning.

So I transform because I don't stop, I transform when the writer's block lifts. Then I'm back on board again.

1 comment:

Debbie Bellis said...

Come on, I have a question for you
What is your biggest fear to becoming a published author???