How To Stop Staring At A Blank Page and Start Writing

Our writing should be able to withstand the process of editing, which is part of writing.

Writing should only get stronger with editing. Just as talkers love to talk and talk, writers love to write and write. Take time to write more. Fool around with words. This practice of writing is just as important as the product.

Staring at a blank page – Sarah Harvey – We Heart Writing

Nothing you write is wasted, even the parts that are cut, since cutting is part of decision making. Cut the redundant; keep where you said the same thing best. Cutting gives us the opportunity to write and rewrite—fill in any holes, expand, clarify, and say things better. Since writing is communicating, we write within community. These eyes are your practice audience and they partner with you to help you communicate to your actual audience. We can get lost in the joy of coming up with good words — words that sing.

We may rack our brains for just the right word. After all, when you write, all you have are words.

But the overall message is more important. The words are the wheels, while the message is the engine. The engine makes the wheels go, just as the message should fuel the words. If we focus on words more than meaning, then we can create fluff, but we need real stuff.

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We need substance in our writing. This way you can better massage it and shape it.

Don't Stare at Blank Screen

When I was a child I dreamed of being a writer, I used to get lost in the wonderful world of books, let them carry me away from my humdrum life, the problems, the upsets, the angst. Taken from unhappy into magical worlds where everything, even though it was just words on paper seemed actually more alive than my reality. I think it was my very first exploration into the power of the mind, and it created in me a thrilling passion, a passion to do the same. I wanted to be one of these people, who could create worlds with words, who could carry others away, envelope them, uplift them, and I feel so privileged now to be able to call myself an author.

People say to live a happy life you should follow your passion, but the thing is when your love becomes your work, things can change, feelings shift, expectations, pressures, sales targets, changing markets, deadlines. I have found that those blank pages often come with the pressure, both external, and the internal ones you put upon yourself.

I see some of my contemporaries bash out three books a year and feel like an old clumsy brick of an IBM computer sitting side by side on a desk with the latest all singing all dancing Apple Mac. It makes me feel so damn unproductive. So do not beat yourself up on those days when you feel like your mind is treacle to be waded through, do not get your copy of writers digest and use it to very firmly smack your own bottom.

Five Ways to Avoid Staring at a Blank Screen While Writing

Instead tell yourself well done for trying, and get away from your computer, go out, have a coffee, people watch, get drunk with friends, bake a cake, draw a picture, make your bed, create something you can easily see an end to, just to remind yourself it is actually possible. Live, and then share that in your words. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? What is the number one thing that you would like to do with your writing? Blogging for pleasure, writing a journal, blogging for business or writing your own book!

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So why can't you get started? You're filled with ideas and inspiration but something stops you from getting on with your writing project. The Author, herself a writer who took twenty years to write, brings you this workbook which is designed to unblock whatever it is that is stopping you from writing. Filled with exercises and reflections and a space for your own personal goals, this is a chance to unblock your writing creativity and get started!

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