DEFEATING Writer’s Block, One Word at a Time

Thanks to a friend from Facebook, I got an idea that might help in the war against the imaginary Writer’s Block (cue creepy diabolical music here, maybe something from John Williams). Writer’s Block is made up. It’s not there. Just like the stories we create, we create the block. Sometimes the story is like bowel movement and just doesn’t want to pass as fast as we would like. So how do we help keep our mental bowels moving regular? Come up with some prompts. When I can’t get back to my WIPs as fast as I’d like, I dabble with story ideas, so this part is easy for me. I have quite a few that I have collected that might end up in a story someday.

So the computer screen mocks you, does it? Does the nasty little cursor taunt you? Or maybe it’s winking at you? Maybe it’s trying to speak to you? What’s it saying? Maybe it’s talking to the voices in your head? Maybe it has a crush on you and you’re not wanting that kind of a relationship (you heart breaker). Maybe it’s aliens preparing for an invasion, or maybe you’ve lost your mind, and if you did lose it, ask yourself where would you be if you were your mind? And if you found your mind would the cursor still blink? (Well doesn’t that just fry your noodle?)

Write to yourself on the computer using some or all of these questions. In 500 words or less (as many words as you want, but I like to sound professional)

The key to defeating a made up enemy, is by making something up to destroy it. Write it out! Word-sauce doesn’t make itself without your fingers! Well? Don’t just sit there staring at me, c`mon pen-monkey, make that ink-sauce already!

MORE Writer Prompts

Are you extremely busy in every way but writing? Do you lack the energy to brainstorm? How about writing a drabble? A drabble by definition is exactly one-hundred words, and tells a story. It’s about a paragraph.

Take five of your favorite words (make sure they mean different things) and use that as your starting point. Find a way to include these five words into your drabble, and make it coherent.

Or use the picture of my eye to inspire a story, lol. Pictures inspire me all the time. 

Life is a beast, but we can learn to ride it.