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Want to be a better writer? Here's an idea: Write!

by Ron Jette 
Writers block I am often asked if I ever get writer's block. You know, you sit there and stare at a blank computer screen that, before long, seems to be sticking its tongue out at you.

 

To be honest, no, I don't. Not anymore, at least. (Now, if anything, I suffer from writer's cramp because my fingers just can't move fast enough to keep up with what I want to write.)  

 

Maybe it's because my mind is always in overdrive, maybe it's because I am never short of an opinion; I'm not sure. What I do know is that after all these years, the first drafts now seem to come naturally to me.

 

Finally.

 

And therein lies the key.

 

The more you want to write the more you do write and the more you do write, the more you can write. Simply put, you have to do it and do it and do it some more. There is no other way around it.

 

"If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot."

--Stephen King

 

Search Google for a way to overcome writer's block and you'll get lots of good suggestions. Here are just a few (no endorsements intended!):

 

3 Ways to Get Over Writer's Block 

27 Wacky Ways to Beat Writer's Block 

5 Most Effective Ways to Get Over Writer's Block  

How to Get Past the 10 Most Debilitating Sources of Writer's Block

 

Suggestions include "cursing like a sailor," "embracing messiness" or "talking to an imaginary friend." Those ideas might help, but nothing beats experience.

 

So, if you want to beat writer's block, start hammering away on that keyboard. You don't have to show it to anybody. But you do have to get started--but only after you finish reading this newsletter, of course.

 

(If you really want to avoid writer's block, you can hire a professional writer to develop your content for you. I happen to know some good ones!)

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QuikTip

For the past few months, we've been changing things up a bit in this space by offering thoughts from other writers.  

 

This month, a quote from a writer who, after being seriously wounded in WWI, used his wartime experiences as the basis for a little American classic called A Farewell to Arms.   

 

"There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges." 

 

Ernest Hemingway,

author

 

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