Do you want to be successful both online and in your everyday life? Then listen up. The most important skill for making it big these days is not a super fit body or the ability to hold a sword, it is how fast you can get quality content onto your platform. Everyone online needs to be able to write. Most people off-line need it as well. Do you want to write but find you are held back? Writer's block is still a major problem, but today we are going to look at one simple solution.
Writer's block strikes when you need it least. You have sat down to start working on a new piece, only to find your fingers hovering over the keys and nothing coming out. The inside of your head is empty and you fear you may even be able to hear crickets chirping in the background. No matter how long you sit there or how many half sentences you scrape out, you can't get any further.
'But why?' You ask the universe. 'Why has this happened to me?' Only recently you were reading about starting your own blog and the ideas were overflowing then. But now that you have hosted your site and are ready to write your first post, why do you feel like a squeaky tap with only dust puffing out?
It is a sad but true fact that when you sit down to write and find there is nothing, it is usually because of two things: fear and being drained.
The latter of these happens quite frequently if you are not prepared, but is easily remedied. You have tried to demand too much from your inner-self who has become starved and run off. It is just a matter of turning away from your computer, getting up and focusing on something else until your shy inner-self creeps out and starts spinning the gold again. When it is happily in a rhythm, then you can run back to your keyboard and start typing away as furiously as you can.
The first, however, is not so easy to battle. Fear comes in many forms, for many reasons, but all with one effect: you are left wordless. You might be suffering from fear of failure, or much more common is the fear of success. Then there is the fear of what everyone will think. The fear that maybe you are really bad after all. The fear that maybe it isn't fear at all, that you are just stupid and can't write.
Would it seem too good to be true if I said there was one way to overcome nearly all these fears? A way to get on with the task of actually writing and let the psychology play with itself? It all relies on one little secret: find someone else to blame.
Think about it. If you sit down at the computer and nothing comes out, that's no longer your problem! Instead, you can point your finger and say 'well, at least I turned up to work. They, on the other hand, did not hold up their part of the bargain!'
The answer is ancient wisdom, handed down for generations before being lost. It is the power of The Muse. A muse would give you supernatural inspiration, and allow you to keep working while she handled the hard bits of actually making it good.
No matter what sort of writing you do, be it steamy romance or financial reporting, a muse never goes astray. It is time to find your own. Mythical beings work well, as they are in the right realm to access the inspiration. However, the Egyptians were onto something with their cats. Every time you come to your desk and find your cat curled up on the keyboard, thank them for their bestowal of power on the keys, and feel free to kick them every time you can't find the right words. (That will put a very quick end to not being able to find the right words).
Wherever you find your muse, just keep in mind one thing: all you have to do is turn up and write, everything else is their responsibility. Just knowing this is usually enough to get rid of your writer's block.
Writer's block strikes when you need it least. You have sat down to start working on a new piece, only to find your fingers hovering over the keys and nothing coming out. The inside of your head is empty and you fear you may even be able to hear crickets chirping in the background. No matter how long you sit there or how many half sentences you scrape out, you can't get any further.
'But why?' You ask the universe. 'Why has this happened to me?' Only recently you were reading about starting your own blog and the ideas were overflowing then. But now that you have hosted your site and are ready to write your first post, why do you feel like a squeaky tap with only dust puffing out?
It is a sad but true fact that when you sit down to write and find there is nothing, it is usually because of two things: fear and being drained.
The latter of these happens quite frequently if you are not prepared, but is easily remedied. You have tried to demand too much from your inner-self who has become starved and run off. It is just a matter of turning away from your computer, getting up and focusing on something else until your shy inner-self creeps out and starts spinning the gold again. When it is happily in a rhythm, then you can run back to your keyboard and start typing away as furiously as you can.
The first, however, is not so easy to battle. Fear comes in many forms, for many reasons, but all with one effect: you are left wordless. You might be suffering from fear of failure, or much more common is the fear of success. Then there is the fear of what everyone will think. The fear that maybe you are really bad after all. The fear that maybe it isn't fear at all, that you are just stupid and can't write.
Would it seem too good to be true if I said there was one way to overcome nearly all these fears? A way to get on with the task of actually writing and let the psychology play with itself? It all relies on one little secret: find someone else to blame.
Think about it. If you sit down at the computer and nothing comes out, that's no longer your problem! Instead, you can point your finger and say 'well, at least I turned up to work. They, on the other hand, did not hold up their part of the bargain!'
The answer is ancient wisdom, handed down for generations before being lost. It is the power of The Muse. A muse would give you supernatural inspiration, and allow you to keep working while she handled the hard bits of actually making it good.
No matter what sort of writing you do, be it steamy romance or financial reporting, a muse never goes astray. It is time to find your own. Mythical beings work well, as they are in the right realm to access the inspiration. However, the Egyptians were onto something with their cats. Every time you come to your desk and find your cat curled up on the keyboard, thank them for their bestowal of power on the keys, and feel free to kick them every time you can't find the right words. (That will put a very quick end to not being able to find the right words).
Wherever you find your muse, just keep in mind one thing: all you have to do is turn up and write, everything else is their responsibility. Just knowing this is usually enough to get rid of your writer's block.
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