In this post, I will be sharing with you, the unique method that will help you with your writers block.
Firstly, writers block during this time of quarantine is common.
I will be going into depth about this.
I will also be explaining the method you can use to help you towards eliminating writer’s block.
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Knowing the information
Knowing the information I will give you in this post,
is enough to encourage you to take action towards your writer’s block.
Right now, we are all going through the same problem and the way to solve the issue
is to stay indoors unless you have a job that is needed to leave the house.
Have you figured out what I am talking about yet?
a hint is: a worldwide issue to do with an illness spreading.
Having to stay indoors (Writers Block)
Having to stay indoors can be a relief for some people,
but others are stressing out and feeling like they have lost some of their freedom.
Even though staying indoors is mandatory, our goals do not end.
We still have things we would like to accomplish.
This could range from finishing our education, working for our job, or even losing weight.
In this post, I will be talking about one issue that can impact others in terms of their productivity.
This problem has to do with an impact on a persons job or their education.
The problem is called writer’s block.
What is writers block?
To put it in my words, writer’s block is when you have lost the urge to produce new work.
You find it hard to focus on your work at hand
and get ideas to produce the work you set to accomplish
or in other words, work you set to complete.
There are situations that can make it more likely for you to have writer’s block.
I will be explaining why this is popular right now with the situation we as a world are facing right now.
Writer’s block is very popular right now
Writer’s block is very popular right now with the worldwide issue we are currently facing.
What we are facing right now has caused our routine to change,
which has also made us have to think twice about our current goals.
How are we going to complete our goals now?
How are we going to accomplish our goals when our routine has completely changed?
Having to stay indoors, has an impact on our motivation
Having to stay indoors or in other words, our routine completely changing,
may have had an impact on our motivation (leads to writer’s block.)
Having to stay indoors, may give us the option to relax and
watch movies all day or even wake up whenever we would like.
It can be difficult to complete our goals especially when we have children.
This is because children must stay indoors at the moment,
and that can be a distraction in itself.
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When I am in the space to create, where I sit is very important to me.
Elaborating more on the reasons why writers block is
very popular right now based on what I have mentioned: (Writers Block)
1) A change of routine:
As I have mentioned, having our routine changed due to different circumstances
could have had an impact on our motivation.
This is because we are used to doing things a certain way, and once that has changed
we have to think of another or better way of doing things in terms of reaching our goal.
A change of routine can cause us to have writer’s block because our mind
has adjusted to a certain pattern and once that has changed,
we can find it hard to concentrate on our work or produce new ideas to
complete the work we set to achieve.
Change of routine could affect us concentrating on our work
We may normally think that at a certain time
we have time on our own to produce work,
but since our routine has changed due to circumstances,
we may not use the same time to focus on our work,
we may have to reschedule it for a later time.
This brings me a similar reason for why writer’s block is popular:
2) Having to reschedule all the time
Having to reschedule our work every day, for a better time
can have an impact on our creativity to produce new work.
This is because even though we reschedule, the time we have rescheduled
might not feel like a comfortable time for us.
The only way to be able to concentrate on our work is when we feel comfortable.
One of the ways to feel comfortable is when our mind feels at rest and
rescheduling can have an impact on our ability to produce work.
3) Too much distractions
With what we are facing right now, it is mandatory that people stay indoors unless they have a job
where it is needed to work outside of the home.
Majority of people are staying indoors.
Because of this, it can be hard to produce new work due to the distractions a
full household can have on you.
Having to stay indoors with your family can be a distraction because
it is likely you will find it hard to concentrate on your work at hand due to noise.
This can occur especially when those you live with are demanding.
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Having a change of routine may lead to a change of environment- a change of the place where you do your work
All the reasons I have given correlate with each other.
With what we are going through now, the majority of people must work from home,
which can mean for some people, the environment where they work has changed.
A change of environment may cause writer’s block because
you may have a place that you feel more comfortable
and motivated to produce work, and now you must get used to another
environment, which can take some time.
Already Working from home
Even though its a must for the majority of people to stay at home: If you already work from home, it may not affect you as much.
What may have an effect on you could be having a house full of people and having your responsibilities changed.
Your responsibilities may have increased when you have children or other people depending on you.
The reason is that children cannot go to school during this current time,
which leads to a change of routine.
If you are not caring for others: you may have a way of doing things when it comes to being self-employed.
For example, on some occasions,
you may like to visit the local cafe shop to do work. But due to the unexpected changes,
most of the time you spend daily has to be in your own home.
I think everything I have explained can relate to many people.
In this post, I am going to mention the trick on how to deal with writer’s block,
but first, we need to look into what the opposite of writer’s block is:
Firstly one thing that I think we all need to know which I think is very important regarding
this post is writer’s block and creativity are related to each other.
If you look up the opposite of the word writer’s block, it comes up with a term called hypergraphia,
which means strongly wanting to create something, in the form of writing, or drawing.
In order to prevent writer’s block, we must have a desire to create something.
I believe there is one thing that we do on a daily basis that can trigger writer’s
block, but it can also cause hypergraphia. This is the major key to this post:
(Hypergraphia- strongly wanting to create something)
The one thing that can cause a trigger of writer’s block, but also cause hypergraphia
is something that we get involved in on a daily basis.
What is one thing that people go to on a daily basis? Have you guessed yet?
It is the internet, or in other words technology.
When I mean the internet, it involves everything to do with looking at a screen,
such as browsing social media.
How is it the internet, do you ask?
One thing we need to ask ourselves, is why do we use the internet in the first place?
In the world today, having a mobile phone is crucial. This is because
this is the easiest and helpful way to connect with those we know.
The internet is needed more than ever in workplaces.
The internet helps us in less than a minute find answers to our problems.
What I have been trying to identify with the internet
But the most popular thing which I have been trying to identify is
the internet is an easier access to entertainment, in other words, an
easier access to pleasure, a way to make us feel good.
The internet has the potential to make us feel inspired, which brings me
to how the internet is a trigger to writers block:
Browsing the internet vs Writers Block
If you spend majority of your day browsing the internet, this can mean you are constantly entertaining yourself, or
in other words, occupying yourself.
Doing this means you are not using much of your brain to think about things, you are not completely present.
Dopamine is like a feel-good drug. When you are constantly entertaining yourself,
it can be hard to do things other than that.
In one of my previous posts: Can’t Sit Still, Focus, Whilst Learning? Ways That Help –
I went into some detail about dopamine and also, I described a term which I like to call the zone,
and mentioned that once you get into a zone of doing a specific task,
it can be hard to do something else.
It takes about 10 minutes to get in a zone
I recommended that it can take about 10 minutes completely focused on something to get in that zone.
Since you have not been using your brain enough: you have not done much compared to staring at a screen,
getting your brain to come up with ideas or
to even focus on the work at hand can be a challenge.
It will be hard to focus on the work at hand because you have been attached
to supplying yourself with entertainment.
The way to prevent or stop writer’s block is to get your brain active again, be more in the present.
You need to get yourself, thinking about things and coming up with answers.
What if I have not been browsing the internet, and I am experiencing writer’s block?
I believe the way to eliminate writer’s block is to challenge yourself.
Get your brain thinking, get your brain active.
Use your brain to focus on certain activities.
Activities can be reading for 30 minutes, and reflecting on what you have read.
Even journalling can help.
Asking and answering questions as part of your journaling
could be a way to reflect on things going on in your life.
Journalling is a way to get your brain thinking by getting
your thoughts on paper.
Doing brain exercises can help too to get your brain thinking.
The method I will show you (in this post) is a way to help get your brain thinking.
A method I have used that has encouraged a strong desire for hypergraphia or to create has to do with triggering motivation, a temporary high:
What can trigger motivation in me?
A way to trigger motivation is to just dream.
Dream about where you would like to go.
Dream about what you truly desire within your heart,
Ask yourself, What are your dreams in life? do you think you desire to acquire those dreams?
If you think you desire to acquire those dreams, take action towards them, or in other words, take action towards your goals.
What are your desired dreams? Think about them.
Dreaming is a way of producing dopamine in the brain other than browsing the internet.
it can give you a temporary high that will give you a desire to create or be productive.
Now I want us to ask ourselves, how does the internet trigger hypergraphia?
(hypergraphia- A desire to create something)
Browsing the internet can give us the desire to create something when
we are consuming information enough to inspire us,
Going on the internet and learning from others can give us some form of inspiration,
and that inspiration is to do things for ourselves.
An example of learning from others is watching videos explaining the life stories
of others who experienced life problems similar to you and people overcoming their problems.
This can be enough to eliminate writer’s block.
Going on social media, and seeing others living their lives could be enough to inspire us to be productive too.
It can cause us to self reflect which is enough to trigger hypergraphia.
The Simple Trick To Help With Writers Block Based On Everything I Have Said In This Post:
Based on everything I have said, the simple trick, to help with writers block is to be
more active in your thinking.
A way to be more active in your thinking is to come up with answers to
questions, and/or to be inspired.
When you are inspired, you are likely to self reflect
and start to desire to make a difference in your life.
This may motivate you or encourage you to take action.
The method to help with writer’s block is to do an inspired mini study.
This method is an inspired mini study because it acquires self-reflection.
Some of my experience with studying and how you can use it to help with writer’s block
When I was a student, I had to take part in coursework as part of my subject. In this coursework,
there are tasks that I needed to do for example identify, evaluate and analyse certain
topics to pass assignments for my coursework.
To do well in these tasks, firstly I had to do some reading,
this involved using textbooks and then my own research,
then I had to put what I have learnt in my own words.
The reason why I am mentioning this is that I am going to
identify a mini-study which may encourage you to read
and then put what you have read into your own words, which I think can help with your writer’s block.
This method can really help you!.
The Method To Help With Your Writer’s Block Is An Inspired Mini Study (involves self-reflection)
This is the method (inspired mini-study) I will give you, it may take 30 minutes- 1 hour to complete, try it.
This will help because it is a way to get your brain to be more active, and it involves self-reflection,
which is a great benefit in eliminating writer’s block.
Firstly ask yourself, what are your dreams, or what are your current goals?
You may do research. The most important part of this is putting the research you have read in your own words.
While you are completing this study, you may feel like writing or completing your own work.
You can stop what you are doing and start focusing on completing on your work instead, this can be seen as a guide.
If research feels tiresome, you can avoid it at times and write out of your knowledge, this helps too.
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it is beneficial to encourage you to do this mini-study:
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A dream could be to become a dancer
Identify and Explain- Why is this your dream, who do you look up to in that field, and why? (May not need research)
Research which dancer you look up to or research a well known successful dancer- or research the topic of dancing (Optional)
Analyse- Where did it originate from, what led that person becoming a dancer
Evaluate- Any controversy towards dancing- Any bad or good things about the dancer
Apply- How can I use this knowledge to become a dancer- What have I learned about this person that can motivate me to become a dancer or What are the things I need to do to become a dancer
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To lose weight
Identify- What is the meaning of losing weight, why do you need or want to lose weight
Analyse- How you are going to lose weight
Evaluate-Benefits and weaknesses of trying to lose weight- benefits and weaknesses of following a diet
Apply- How to make the most out of losing weight, how to overcome problems linked to losing weight.
What you need to think about when trying to overcome your writers block:
The trick while doing this inspired mini-study is to have a strong belief in yourself.
Believing you can achieve your daily goals.
Remember that all the written work you have previously done shows that you are capable of consistently being a productive person.
Your personal achievements in life are evidence for this fact too.
Sometimes the reason why we have writers block could be due to fear, we may feel completely overwhelmed
and not know what to do with all this energy we feel within ourselves. This can make us want to procrastinate.
Believing in yourself comes a long way. The reason why I have mentioned to dream about your goals
is so that you can feel like you can achieve anything you set your mind to. It gives you an inner motivation.
A post I have looked on which can explain more on what causes writer’s block is:
What’s Really Happening When You Get Writer’s Block (and How to Overcome It)
It goes into much detail.
This current post you are reading right now is to help you overcome that writers block, but the way you can do that is with strong belief.
None or not enough self-belief becomes a barrier to overcoming writers block.
Another way to overcome writers block that does not involve the mini study
Another way to overcome writer’s block in terms of what I have explained to do with the mini-study
is getting a textbook that you have. Find a topic to focus on, read about the topic in the textbook
and research about it and put it in your own words, use IAEA which is to identify, evaluate, analyse and apply. IAEA.
Identify: What is it
Analyse: Where did it come from (Explain it in more detail)
Evaluate: Strength and weaknesses.
Apply: How can I use it to help me in my daily life.
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A personal reflection you should have with yourself
One question I want you to reflect on is how do you start your day?
and how do you end your day? These two reflections can be enough to prevent writer’s block.
Do you start your day browsing the internet for a few minutes?.
Browsing the internet for a few minutes when you have woken up can contribute to writer’s block.
This is because of the feeling, you can get from it, but also because you have not been fully alert.
If browsing the internet causes you to be in a bad mood, its time you stop.
Browsing the internet first thing sets a mood for the first part of your day
To add with what I have said browsing the internet first thing as soon as you wake up,
can make you feel sluggish mentally and even physically.
When we start our day, we should feel refreshed and motivated to start the day with a productive mindset.
Having a productive mindset from when we have woken up can
help us to perform well during the day and help us want to be more creative too.
Your mood is very important when starting your day, browsing the internet can have a negative effect on your whole day.
Exercising is one of the things you can do to start your day as this way produces dopamine and can make you feel more alert.
This is a post that explains the reasons why you should not use your phone as soon as you have woken up:
“3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Check Your Phone Within 1 Hour Of Waking Up”
Ending your day
You should not go to sleep as a means of ending your day feeling sad or angry with someone or about your life.
Deal with unresolved issues or watch, read something that will help with your mood like something
that can inspire you or encourage you to carry on every day with a peaceful mindset.
One quote that has inspired me to still carry on even If I do not feel ready:
“Don’t wait until you are ready to take action, instead take action to be ready- Jensen Siaw”
Use your writers block as a stepping stone to achieve or accomplish your goals.
Conclusion
To conclude, the simple trick to eliminating writer’s block is to get your brain active or in other words,
get your brain thinking, this can involve self-reflecting enough to inspire you to make a change.
I have explained methods that can help you get your brain thinking, this involves journaling
and/or doing an inspired mini-study to get yourself to think.
Doing simple brain exercises can contribute to helping you with writer’s block as this is a way to get your brain to think
If this had helped you, or you have any questions, comment below. Thank you for reading.
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