5 Surefire Ways to Melt Writer’s Block

I suppose you landed on this article because, like this berry on the end of this branch, your ideas for your novel, short story or other writing project are frozen in place. Hopefully, if you follow these five simple steps, you can break the writer’s block that is keeping you from experiencing the joy of moving forward with that project.

I have written everything from poetry to short stories to novels for most of my life. I’m pretty prolific, but now and again I hit a snag. I used to tell myself that writer’s block doesn’t exist, and I even wrote a blog post about it many years ago. As I sit in my living room writing this, I can’t help but look out the window at the current snowstorm and think of it as a metaphor for how the pandemic has basically stymied my efforts to write.

I’ve started this new website, moved all of my Wordpress blog posts over, and have started the journey of writing a novel again, but somehow I’m hitting the wall of figuring out how to proceed with this germ of an idea my brain developed one night while I was trying to sleep. With that, I’ll share the five ways I break the ice of writer’s block. You may feel like Fran Leibowitz, who famously claims to have suffered from decades-long writer’s block, but maybe some of these tricks might help you.

1. Distract Yourself — Yeah. I know. This is probably the last…