Comments on: How do you deal with writer's block? http://paulbalcerak.com/2009/11/04/how-do-you-deal-with-writers-block/ Journalist. Communicator. Social media manager. Here are the things that inspire and inform me. Tue, 15 May 2012 18:35:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: paulbalcerak http://paulbalcerak.com/2009/11/04/how-do-you-deal-with-writers-block/#comment-139 paulbalcerak Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:26:11 +0000 http://paulbalcerak.com/?p=804#comment-139 Added an update with a <em>great</em> link to a post that features 25 artists talking about what they do to overcome creative block. Recommended. Added an update with a great link to a post that features 25 artists talking about what they do to overcome creative block. Recommended.

]]> By: paulbalcerak http://paulbalcerak.com/2009/11/04/how-do-you-deal-with-writers-block/#comment-138 paulbalcerak Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:10:16 +0000 http://paulbalcerak.com/?p=804#comment-138 Thanks—good advice all around. I think getting out of the house and doing something other than focusing on journalism/social media/blogging is probably a good idea in more ways than one. I'll do that. At the same time, I'm reminded of the advice <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Michael_Bendis" rel="nofollow">Brian Michael Bendis</a> gave me once. He said (paraphrasing), "Writing is like working out—you've gotta do it everyday. If you only do it once a week, you're never going to improve." Along those lines, I think I need to have another space where I can just write about whatever I want. Maybe <a href="http://paulbalcerak.posterous.com/" rel="nofollow">my new Posterous account</a> would fit the bill. Thanks—good advice all around. I think getting out of the house and doing something other than focusing on journalism/social media/blogging is probably a good idea in more ways than one. I’ll do that.

At the same time, I’m reminded of the advice Brian Michael Bendis gave me once. He said (paraphrasing), “Writing is like working out—you’ve gotta do it everyday. If you only do it once a week, you’re never going to improve.” Along those lines, I think I need to have another space where I can just write about whatever I want. Maybe my new Posterous account would fit the bill.

]]> By: Adam Westbrook http://paulbalcerak.com/2009/11/04/how-do-you-deal-with-writers-block/#comment-137 Adam Westbrook Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:36:29 +0000 http://paulbalcerak.com/?p=804#comment-137 I reckon the best thing you can do is take yourself away from your desk, go outside, take a walk. Give your brain some other kind of stimulus-you never know what might click. NLP types reckon if you also start thinking about something else, it shifts your writers block problem to your subconscious which is much more powerful than your conscious. And then you get that eureka! moment. Me though, I'm just sitting here reading blogs.... I reckon the best thing you can do is take yourself away from your desk, go outside, take a walk. Give your brain some other kind of stimulus-you never know what might click. NLP types reckon if you also start thinking about something else, it shifts your writers block problem to your subconscious which is much more powerful than your conscious. And then you get that eureka! moment.

Me though, I’m just sitting here reading blogs….

]]> By: Mary Nibori http://paulbalcerak.com/2009/11/04/how-do-you-deal-with-writers-block/#comment-136 Mary Nibori Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:46:13 +0000 http://paulbalcerak.com/?p=804#comment-136 My husband and I have recently started forcing ourselves to write an hour each night, we take an hour to ourselves, with minimal talking, and work on our separate books. It works great... for him! Me, I am the one who is sitting all frustrated because the last writing session just did not turn out the way I wanted it to, then furiously erasing what I attempted to write in the current session. Finally... I fall into the same routine as you. Surfing the net randomly, checking out blogs in hopes to get some sort of inspiration, and yes, tweeting as well. However... I have not brushed my teeth with my left hand... maybe I should! My husband and I have recently started forcing ourselves to write an hour each night, we take an hour to ourselves, with minimal talking, and work on our separate books. It works great… for him! Me, I am the one who is sitting all frustrated because the last writing session just did not turn out the way I wanted it to, then furiously erasing what I attempted to write in the current session. Finally… I fall into the same routine as you. Surfing the net randomly, checking out blogs in hopes to get some sort of inspiration, and yes, tweeting as well. However… I have not brushed my teeth with my left hand… maybe I should!

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