Book Writing | Content Creation | Writer’s Block
Writer’s Block And Practical Ways To Deal With It
Creative Solutions to Writer’s Block — From Authors Themselves
So many authors claim to have writer’s block at some stage in their writing. And it can be paralysing, preventing any meaningful work.
But what actually IS ‘writer’s block’?
Oxford Languages (the online Oxford English Dictionary) defines it as:
the condition of being unable to think of what to write or how to proceed with writing.
So is it just the inability to write what you need to work on? If so, what do authors actually do to get over it? And are those strategies useful? I decided I needed more data to find out what worked.
My Research Into Writer’s Block
In order to get more information, I asked two online groups of several thousand writers about their experiences of writer’s block. Specifically I asked a question:
What’s your no.1 tip for overcoming writer’s block?
I got a lot of responses — well over 400. I then analysed the responses and grouped them into what seemed to be similar areas.