My Advice for Conquering Writer’s Block
Keep a legal pad, or something like one, and when you are stuck dead at any time—blocked to paralysis by an inability to set one word upon another—get away from the computer, lie down somewhere with pencil and pad, and think it over. This can do wonders at any point in a piece and is especially helpful when you have written nothing at all.
John McPhee • Draft No. 4
Seeing your ideas crumble can be a frustrating experience, but it is the point if you are writing to think. You want it to break. It is in the cracks the light shines in.
When you work on the content plan, do not put any effort into coming up with a good title. Your main goal at this stage is to generate ideas. You can refine and critique them later. If your headlines or titles look sloppy and you don’t know exactly what you’re going to say in that piece of content, that’s perfectly ok.
Meera Kothand • The One Hour Content Plan: The Solopreneur’s Guide to a Year’s Worth of Blog Post Ideas in 60 Minutes and Creating Content That Hooks and Sells
A writer’s greatest work is observing the world and asking "what if..." when something happens. Keep a list and when you are facing writer’s block, pull it out and do a fast free-write. A Free-write is when you write for 5-10 minutes exactly what you’re thinking without mentally editing yourself and then sift through it for tiny gold nugg
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