Breaking Through Writer's Block: 25 Tips to Improve Focus and Boost Productivity

By Christine Cee

'Breaking Through Writer's Block' is a short, punchy examination of one of the most common ailments a modern writer faces. In its pages are 25 strategies and solutions to improve focus and boost writing productivity, including startling suggestions about how a writer's water intake affects their thinking capacity. This book works for both 'plotters' and 'pantsers', combining a short read with useful strategies to move you forward on your writing projects.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christine C Elliott
• Release date: Feb 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9780648781851

Christine Cee

Christine Cee is an Australian writer who started her journey toward publication in 2013. Her first publication (published under her first author name, Christine C. Elliott) was a collection of stories crafted from her childhood memories about small-town life and the bigotry and injustices frequently prevalent in small communities. She has since written and published a memoir penned during the lockdowns in Melbourne in 2020 as well as a short collection of autobiographical stories of love and loss (After the Last Breath) Her most prolific writing format is journalling, something she is passionate about as a means of self-awareness and living intentionally.    Her favourite books are memoirs and cozy mysteries and is she currently penning her first cozy mystery – a story that was birthed during her first NaNoWriMo experience.  

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Praise for Breaking Through Writer’s Block 

In Christine Cee’s new non-fiction book, Breaking through Writer’s Block, she has clearly identified her main character: an entity, a phenomenon, known to many writers as Writer’s Block.  Whether this dreaded entity is myth or real has not been established, but either way Christine in her exuberant offering makes a right royal job of demolishing this bane of writers. She has more than one way of bringing Writer’s Block to heel. 

Christine’s book is full of advice to writers on how to overcome Writer’s Block and her advice is indeed valuable. Christine Cee has many years’ experience in the writing world. Writers who have argument with Writer’s Block will find much of value in Breaking Through Writer’s Block.

M.D. Ward

‘I completely agree with Christine Cee that the notion of suffering for one’s art needs to be obliterated from the collective writers’ psyche. 

Breaking Through Writer’s Block examines the issue thoroughly and offers practical help: six great guidelines for eliminating block, nine excellent strategies for preventing it in the first place, and a 30-day challenge. As a long-time writer, coach, editor and teacher, I know how important it is to encourage ourselves through the difficult patches, which will arise for all of us. Read, enjoy, and free yourself from suffering!’ 

Liliane Grace, Writing Coach and Author of The Conscious Family

Legend has it, while penning the screenplay for The Blue Dahlia, Raymond Chandler, riddled with writer’s block, told the film studio the only way he could complete the script in time, was to enter an alcohol-fuelled writing frenzy. The studio promptly plied Chandler with an excessive amount of booze and a medical support team. While this method of overcoming writer’s block worked for Chandler, for those of us with weaker constitutions, thankfully we have ‘Breaking Through Writer’s Block’ by Christine Cee.  Breaking Through Writer's Block is a straightforward and concise examination of one of the most common ailments a modern writer will face. The book presents 25 tips to improve focus and boost productivity. Whether you're a 'plotter' or a 'pantser', you'll find some sound techniques and strategies to assist you to move forward on your writing projects.

David Foster Seaford, Australia

Acknowledgments

A very special thanks to my team: Michelle, whose insightful comments made me rethink the ‘why’ of this book; Brita, who recognised this book was about more

than just writing blocks; and Helen, for reminding me that I can inspire others.

Special thanks to Marshall (who said the right thing at the right time) and

Charles C. who instantly grasped the importance of this book.

And, finally, a hat-tip to all at Frankston Writers Block* whose encouragement

and support have been invaluable.

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*Please note this group spells its name without the requisite apostrophe

Foreword

In my mind, the blank page towers like a pearlescent version of the monolith from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.  It’s there, it hums, and it’s imposing.  It does not get me on to the space station or evolve me or turn me