How To Break Through Writer's Block: Writing How-to Guide, #1

By Haley Whitehall

Are you stuck on your manuscript and you have a deadline to meet? How To Break Through Writer’s Block is here to rescue you. This short guide will diagnose your type of writer’s block and give you ideas on how to overcome the obstacle so you can increase your creativity, be productive, and finish writing your projects.

Writer’s block is a common affliction. It indiscriminately strikes most writers: novelists, bloggers, academic writers, screenwriters etc. Don’t needlessly waste time and increase your stress. It is time to get help today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Expanding Horizons Press
• Release date: Mar 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386895671

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If you’ve ever had writer’s block then you know what it is although you may find difficulty defining it. Writer’s block is a condition associated with writing in which the writer loses his or her ability to produce new material. This block can occur in all types of writing such as academic writing, writing magazine articles and blog posts, novels, and screenplays. Writer’s block can manifest itself in different ways. It can prevent the writer from coming up with new ideas, keep them from writing the next scene or chapter, prevent them from finishing their project etc.

Writer’s block occurs at some point in the life of nearly every writer. It just depends on if the writer admits that they were blocked. Writer’s block can vary in severity. At the lowest level, it does not block writing completely but significantly slows down the writer’s process. At the most extreme it can keep an author from writing or finishing a project for years.

This guide is meant to help writers understand writer’s block, identify the cause of their writer’s block, and provide ways to break through the creative barrier so they can begin writing again. After all, the joy of writing comes from producing new material and then sharing it with others.

Does Writer’s Block Even Exist?

I had considered making this the beginning section of this guide. However, why write a guide for something if it didn’t actually exist? There are two schools of thought regarding writer’s block. Most writers agree that writer’s block is an actual condition. There are others though who claim that writer’s block does not exist and that those suffering from writer’s block are doing so to get out of writing.

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