{"id":20546,"date":"2014-11-21T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/\/?p=20546"},"modified":"2015-06-18T17:21:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T00:21:44","slug":"how-to-overcome-writers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/how-to-overcome-writers-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert Advice: How to overcome writers block?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hardest part of any\u00a0new project is getting started and figuring out how to overcome writers block or any other creative block that may come up. CJ gets expert advice from Tina Welling who conducts workshops around the country on creative writing. Learn how to tackle some of the most common problems you&#8217;ll encounter when writing a song, poem, or a book.<\/p>\n<h2>How to handle the most common problems when writing?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Inspiration: How to tap your inspiration and vision for your master piece?<\/li>\n<li>Obstacles: How to handle writer&#8217;s block? How do you know when to cut something out of your book, keep it, or recycle it (short story)? What to do with perfectionist tendencies?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/widget\/?showId=25229902&amp;episodeId=27097669\" width=\"398\" height=\"224\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Avoiding the Creative Blues<\/h2>\n<p>by CJ Liu<\/p>\n<h2>What is writer\u2019s block or a block in creativity?<\/h2>\n<p>Merriam Webster defines writers block as:<\/p>\n<p><em>the problem of not being able to think of something to write about or not being able to finish writing a story, poem, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a life coach, I experience creative blocks as a time in my creative process when I\u2019ve lost my vision.\u00a0 During these times I feel like I\u2019m stuck in a rut.\u00a0 My foot is on the accelerator, mud is splattering everywhere, and I\u2019m going nowhere fast.\u00a0 Psychologists call this spinning stage being in a state of denial.\u00a0 When I\u2019ve talked to clients in a rut, their experience is that they too feel lost, clueless, and full of self-doubt.\u00a0 While this suffering is natural, the pain can be eased when we take a big picture view of the whole situation.<\/p>\n<p>A more helpful way of thinking about a creative block is thinking about it as a pit stop that may be part of the creative journey. Think about it. Any great hero\u2019s journey involves roadblocks designed for our growth and learning.\u00a0 During these times, my Coach-self says to my neurotic self, \u201cI just don\u2019t know where to go RIGHT NOW.\u00a0 It\u2019s ok.\u00a0 I\u2019ll know when I know.\u201d\u00a0 I\u2019ve often wondered what professional writers, musicians, artists do when they hit this point.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I talked to author Tina Welling, who has taught the last twenty years at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonholewritersconference.com\/\"><em>Jackson Hole Writers Conference<\/em><\/a>. She questions the whole idea of writer\u2019s block and the idea that you need a muse to get inspired.\u00a0 Instead, she believes that writer\u2019s block is a form of self-imposed fear and that you psych ourselves out by judging our work too early in the creative process. \u00a0Check out what Tina says about <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GdLbF0-zmr4?t=39m37s\">writer\u2019s block<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But, part of me still wonders.\u00a0 What should I do when I\u2019m blocked?\u00a0 Plow forward or take a break?<\/p>\n<h2>Two Approaches: What should you do when writer\u2019s or creative block raises its ugly head?<\/h2>\n<h3>Approach 1: \u00a0Heed nature\u2019s calling<\/h3>\n<p>During slow periods when your creative juices aren\u2019t flowing, some share a story about how its nature\u2019s way of getting you to rest, relax, and go dormant for awhile.\u00a0 You\u2019ve had a nice full stretch of growth and productivity, now it\u2019s time to chill.\u00a0 It\u2019s natural. It\u2019s good for us.\u00a0 Now, just SLEEP, SLEEP now.<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I find these romantic depictions of nature annoying.\u00a0 Darn it, this is NOT what I want.\u00a0 I\u2019m an American, and like a convenience store, I need to be open for business 24&#215;7.\u00a0 What is this \u201crest\u201d thing anyways?<\/p>\n<p>Often, I try to push through these periods with a \u201cno pain, no gain\u201d attitude. \u00a0This often works, but is it the best thing to do?\u00a0 Based on my conversation with Tina Welling, the answer is \u201cNO\u201d.\u00a0 She views these forced disciplined actions as going against nature. She draws the analogy of a diet, which she also considers unnatural. \u00a0Tina believes that it\u2019s not natural for us to <em>force<\/em> ourselves to be creative. Creativity is a process and our body, mind, and soul need to be involved for inspired writing to happen.\u00a0 Orson Scott Card and Ray Bradbury seem to agree on this approach, based on their quotes on writer\u2019s block:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Writer\u2019s block is never solved by forcing oneself to \u201cwrite through it,\u201d because you haven\u2019t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won\u2019t work \u2013 for you or for the reader.\u201d \u2014 Orson Scott Card<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the middle of writing something you go blank and your mind says: \u201cNo, that\u2019s it.\u201d Ok. You\u2019re being warned, aren\u2019t you? Your subconscious is saying \u201cI don\u2019t like you anymore. You\u2019re writing about things I don\u2019t give a damn for.\u201d You\u2019re being political, or you\u2019re being socially aware. You\u2019re writing things that will benefit the world. To hell with that! I don\u2019t write things to benefit the world. If it happens that they do, swell. I didn\u2019t set out to do that. I set out to have a hell of a lot of fun. &#8211; Ray Bradbury at The Sixth Annual Writer\u2019s Symposium by the Sea 2001:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>During my interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/2012\/03\/06\/mar-8-jerry-wennstrom\/\">Jerry Wenstrom<\/a>, he expresses a similar sentiment.\u00a0 When he creates a sculpture, he needs to wait for the wood or art piece to speak to him about what needs to happen.\u00a0\u00a0 To me, this takes waiting and listening into a whole other dimension.<\/p>\n<h3>Approach 2: It\u2019s about commitment and discipline<\/h3>\n<p>While there are those that swear by the wait and see approach, there are equal numbers of creative people who say \u201cjust do it\u201d and express sentiments like Philip Pullman.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The fact is that writing is hard work, and sometimes you don\u2019t want to do it, and you can\u2019t think of what to write next, and you\u2019re fed up with the whole damn business. ..Of course there will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP. \u2026Writer\u2019s block is a condition that affects amateurs and people who aren\u2019t serious about writing. So is the opposite, namely inspiration, which amateurs are also very fond of. Putting it another way: a professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they\u2019re not inspired as when they are.\u201d \u2014 Philip Pullman<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Regardless if you are a painter, writer, or musician, the conventional wisdom is to just keep the creative juices flowing.\u00a0 It\u2019s about forcing yourself to create every day, whether it\u2019s painting, writing, etc. I\u2019ve certainly talked to people who believe that creatively expressing yourself is something you do to honor and respect your soul on a daily basis.\u00a0 Awhile back, I talked to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/2012\/08\/02\/329-developing-self-expression-through-song\/\">Will Hewett<\/a> who made it a daily practice to sing every day.\u00a0 So, he sang on airplanes, cars, in the shower.\u00a0 He sang like his life depended on.<\/p>\n<p>When I read Maya Angelou\u2019s quote on writer\u2019s block, it is as if her writing is akin to a devotional prayer to the gods so that she may be blessed with their creative genius.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhat I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks \u2018the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat.\u2019 And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I\u2019m writing, I write. And then it\u2019s as if the muse is convinced that I\u2019m serious and says, \u2018Okay. Okay. I\u2019ll come.\u2019\u201d \u2014 Maya Angelou<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My normal go-to approach is forcing myself to solve the problem.\u00a0 I\u2019m impatient and would rather be doing, then just waiting for something to arise.\u00a0 If this resonates to you, then you may enjoy trying these ideas from my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/2014\/03\/28\/5-tips-moving-procrastination-creative-genius\/\">interview with Sam Bennett<\/a> on moving from a stuck place.\u00a0 Sam Bennett is an actress from Second City TV and creative coach.<\/p>\n<h3>Which approach is best for me? How do you know if you should move through the pain &#8211; or just stop trying to try?<\/h3>\n<p>In the end, it\u2019s hard to say which approach is better or more natural.\u00a0 Personally, I\u2019d say it\u2019s a mix of these two approaches.\u00a0 In my opinion, the key is really being able to discern if you need to stop your journey, check into hotel, and sleep \u2013OR- if you have hit a short delay and just need to take a detour.\u00a0 The key is trial and error.<\/p>\n<p>For better or worse, I first try to gut through it.\u00a0 This is sort of like taking the alternate highway to my destination.\u00a0 If this doesn\u2019t work, then I realize it\u2019s time to throw in the towel and wait.\u00a0 Sadly, I used to try three to four alternate routes versus just one.\u00a0 Over time, I\u2019ve become wiser and have realized that one dead end is just as good as four dead ends.\u00a0 Since time is always a consideration for me, I rationalize that it\u2019s a better use of my time to rest then driving all around exploring dead ends and emptying my tank further.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the times these road blocks require a few days rest and worse case up to a week\u2019s rest.\u00a0 But don\u2019t be surprised if you need to take a six month hiatus.\u00a0\u00a0 If you\u2019ve hit these gaps enough you get smarter and realize that the best thing to do with these gaps is to relax into them.<\/p>\n<p>During my <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GdLbF0-zmr4?t=41m47s\">interview with Tina<\/a>, she mentions a similar process of opening up and accepting the challenges that these gaps present to us during our creative process.\u00a0 I really liked the way she describes her gap periods.\u00a0 After writing her book, she said that she sat on her porch reading books or walking through the woods, and that she viewed this as an integral part of the creative process.\u00a0 Even though she was not at the computer, she was still a writer during these periods.\u00a0 Her nature walks, which she calls spirit walks, were a way for her to be in the moment and collect the raw materials she would then use in her next book or article.\u00a0 In the video she describes <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GdLbF0-zmr4?t=16m56s\">the process she uses for getting in the juicy creative zone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a beautiful passage that I read today, by Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum who I <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/xmgFvAan4So\">interviewed about effort and ease<\/a> that helped me think about this question in a practical way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cSometimes you may feel tired and need to rest, and sometime you may feel tired and need to persevere. Sometimes when we feel pain it is a signal that continuing on will cause injury; other times the pain we experience is a phantasm caused more by anxiety than by actual physical threat.\u00a0 This also applies to efforts of the mind: Pushing yourself to work on a task when you feel you\u2019ve reached your limits may result in a breakthrough or may lead to errors and exhaustion\u2026 Which signals do you listen to, and which do you need to override? When should you put forth more effort, and when should you let go? To answer these questions you must know yourself well, you need to let go of the ideas you have about yourself and be sensitive to how you actually respond\u2026 At any particular choice point, you cannot know the answer beforehand: if you could, \u00a0it would be a selection, not a choice.\u00a0 When faced with a range of possible paths, you can never know how your choice will turn out.\u00a0 No matter how much information you collect, no matter how carefully you map out contingencies, you cannot foresee the eddies that will result from your actions until you actually undertake them. \u201d \u2013 Robert Meikyo Rosenbaum, <em>Walking the Way. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>When creating, how do you know when enough is enough?\u00a0 When should you just stop tweaking and just publish or share your creation with the world?<\/h2>\n<p>Tina describes this beautifully in our <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/GdLbF0-zmr4?t=44m47s\">interview<\/a>.\u00a0 She says that the rewriting, polishing and pulling things together is when the art comes in.\u00a0 She feels that if it\u2019s a good piece that it still holds energy for her and she will continue to edit it until the energy is no longer there.\u00a0 Tina describes how she wrote the first draft of \u201cWriting Wild\u201d fifteen years ago and finished writing it twelve years ago. While she\u2019s edited it hundreds of times, it still held the energy for her. \u00a0She knew when she was done because she got to the point when she thought \u201cthis is my best\u201d.\u00a0 Another one of her litmus test was her sense of aliveness and authenticity.\u00a0 When she lost her sense of aliveness and authenticity, it was her clue that it was time to stop.\u00a0 Personally, I love this idea.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Ellis, an acclaimed singer-songwriter, describes in these two interviews: 1) In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/2013\/03\/21\/making-music\/\">interview <\/a>\u00a0how descries when he knows he\u2019s done with a song (see quote below) and 2) In this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/2013\/04\/02\/making-music-meaningfu\/\">interview<\/a> describes what constitutes a \u201cgood song\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>It means that you are serving the song; you are doing what the song is asking you to do. It is asking you to take it to the place that\u2019s believable and moving for people to hear. Are you serving the song? Are you writing it as well as you can? Is it doing what the mission statement of the song is asking? \u00a0The song\u00a0<em>Rose Tattoo<\/em>\u00a0is about a guy driving home from work on the day that he is being laid off and he\u2019s calling his wife to tell her the story.\u00a0 He is frustrated, and she says \u201cWe\u2019ll fight for the best case scenario\u201d.\u00a0 You need that dialogue to be very believable; you need scenes to be really believable.\u00a0 You have to have all the details of the song spell out the image in peoples\u2019 heads so they can picture it happening.\u00a0 And that\u2019s when I feel like I am doing some greater good. But the first step in that, is serving the song, which is writing it a way that really makes people get transported to where you are writing.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how I look at this whole situation.\u00a0 Ultimately, life is all about co-creating with the universe.\u00a0 We have free will and it is a driving force that will propel us to great discoveries and progress.\u00a0 This energy and effort is worth honoring.\u00a0 But in this process of creating, how different would it be if we pursued these co-creations with both effort AND ease? What would shift if we truly believed that we are not separate from creativity, but we are one with it?\u00a0 How freeing would it be if we could let go of the idea that we have to do ALL the work and think about the work being done through us?\u00a0 Personally, I can let out a big sigh of relief when I truly believe that we are one with this creative energy. It\u2019s necessary to both think logically about it and tune into the creative energy within.<\/p>\n<p>Want advice on writing a book.\u00a0CJ Liu interviews Dan Millian (author of 17 books) and Sierra Prasada (author, blogger, writer), a father and daughter team share a book that they co-wrote, The Creative Compass. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fireitupwithcj.com\/dev\/1231-creative-compass\/\">Get inspired to write a book<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>A Blog Post on the Creative Process\u00a0by Tina Welling<\/h2>\n<div id=\"dnn_ctr1414_ViewArticleDetails_rptArticleDetails_ctl00_pnlArticleByLine\">\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><b><i>Part of the How They Do It Series <\/i><\/b>The creative process can be a strange thing. Sometimes we know exactly what we did to achieve our art, and other times we have no idea where the inspiration came from. That&#8217;s part of the fun, but also part of the frustration. How do we reliably access this inner muse? Tina Welling takes the podium today to share some tips on finding our inner writing truths.Tina Welling is the author of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/10R4tdt\">Writing Wild: Forming a Creative Partnership with Nature<\/a><\/i> and three novels including <i><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1wtLbqm\">Cowboys Never Cry<\/a><\/i>. Her nonfiction has appeared in <i>The Sun, Body &amp; Soul<\/i>, and a variety of anthologies. She lives in Jackson Hole, WY.<br \/>\n<i><br \/>\nTake it away Tina&#8230; <\/i><br \/>\n<a name=\"more\"><\/a><br \/>\nThe ABCs of writing into our own truth are <i>attention<\/i>, <i>belief<\/i>, and <i>courage<\/i>.<i>Attention <\/i>means offering awareness to our body sensations and our emotions;<i>belief <\/i>means trusting our responses; <i>courage<\/i> means taking action based upon our responses. Each time we follow these ABCs, we strengthen the access to our inner authority. When we write down the discoveries our attention brings us \u2013 our emotions and body awareness \u2013 and read it back to ourselves or someone else, we are taking a step toward trusting our findings and taking action upon them.We don\u2019t have to know something to write; we write to know something. We write to bring into our consciousness the inner authority that so often remains in the unconscious. If you doubt at all your inner well of knowledge and creativity, stop right here and write a paragraph about any object in your vicinity. Report the findings of your senses and body sensations. Allow associations to occur and images to arise.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>People often ask writers, \u201cWhere do you get your ideas, your stories?\u201d Even we wonder sometimes where our material comes from, especially when we are writing in a concentrated way that flows with newly unearthed material. Some writers give over their power and their reverence to the product \u2013 the book or poem \u2013 rather than the source of that product: their own inner authority.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s another result of thinking the source is one of luck, of mystery, and feeling superstitious about examining that too closely, fearing it will disappear. Possibly, this accounts for those writers who have enormous success with one book and then can\u2019t write another. They\u2019ve put all their power into the outcome of what is an inner process.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, this sometimes happens with a person\u2019s first poem or story. It receives rave responses, and the writer believes it was a fluke because she can\u2019t trace the flow of the work from within her to the product without. She believes it was a one-time accident and, after the immediate exhilaration of her experience, becomes depressed.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, this can happen even after multiple successes. One of my workshop students reports that he sees each publication as a fluke and fears he can\u2019t ever do it again.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s this inner process of arriving at our own material that intrigues me and that I demystify in WRITING WILD. For if we don\u2019t understand it, we feel that creative energy is in control and shares itself with us only on whim. Our relationship to writing and to ourselves must be more intimate than that. Intimacy, in partnership with another human or in partnership with our inner selves, demands trust and faithfulness. We can\u2019t write if we think a disembodied muse may or may not show up to unlock our creative vault and give us access to our own personal material.<\/p>\n<p>This kind of thinking is irresponsible, as if we are refusing to be accountable for our own creative lives. Material can occur to us with such rapidity that we cannot immediately trace the steps our minds took in connecting two seemingly unrelated ideas. But when we are very alert to the data our senses bring us and to the memories, hopes, fear, and dreams that the sensory data triggers, we will make instantaneous links. It\u2019s this fully traceable process that many of us mistake for mystery, luck, and visits from the muse.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the book <i>Writing Wild<\/i>. Copyright \u00a9 2014 by Tina Welling. Reprinted with permission from New World Library. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newworldlibrary.com\/\">www.NewWorldLibrary.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to overcome writer&#039;s block?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GdLbF0-zmr4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\">\n<h2 class=\"post-title entry-title\">More about our Guest Tina Welling<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-cv6CvI3IyJc\/VFi-sS91TkI\/AAAAAAAAFs8\/Dow5MxWdPHk\/s1600\/Tina-Welling_4200-1200px.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/>Tina Welling is the author of<em>Writing Wild: Forming A Creative Partnership With Nature<\/em>, and the novels <em>Crybaby Ranch, Fairy Tale Blues<\/em>, and <em>Cowboys Never Cry<\/em>. Her essays have been published in <em>Shambhala Sun<\/em>, <em>The Writer<\/em>,<em>Body &amp; Soul<\/em>, and other national magazines, as well as four anthologies. She conducts creative writing and journal keeping workshops around the country. Welling resides in Jackson Hole.<\/p>\n<h2>Interesting Websites for Resources<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>13 Famous writers on writer&#8217;s block: http:\/\/fla<wbr \/>vorwire.co<wbr \/>m\/343207\/1<wbr \/>3-famous-w<wbr \/>riters-on-<wbr \/>overcoming<wbr \/>-writers-b<wbr \/>lock\/13<\/li>\n<li>For kids, but still interesting for new writers: http:\/\/www.imschools.org\/images\/files\/menufiles\/Overview6Traits.pdf<\/li>\n<li>Interesting article on types of problems writers encounter: http:\/\/io9.com\/5844988\/the-10-types-of-writers-block-and-how-to-overcome-them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the hardest part of any\u00a0new project is getting started and figuring out how to overcome writers block or any other creative block that may come up. CJ gets expert advice from Tina Welling who conducts workshops around the country on creative writing. 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