[This is an excerpt from a piece I wrote for The Creative Penn. Click that link to read all 12 steps!]
Stuck in a writing rut? Are you sick of your own voice?
Write ahead of yourself!
Get out in front of your conscious, deliberate, critical mind. Free yourself from patterns and intentions wherever they’re stifling your writing. You may uncover something interesting that you never even knew you knew.
But how? It’s difficult to offer particular advice here, since every writer is walled-in by unique habits and proclivities. But I would recommend that you NOT start relying on drink or drugs to free up your creative mind. Your writing will suffer in a completely different way. Instead, try some of the free-writing prompts you can find online:
2) Writer’s Digest Writing Prompts
What are your favorite ways of breaking out of writer’s block? Let us know in the comments section below.
-Chris R. at CD Baby
