Maintaining a blog is not an easy task.\u00a0 Writing takes discipline, time and effort.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ever so often, I find myself battling fires at work and trying to complete pending tasks at home.\u00a0 Weekdays are incredibly hectic, and weekends pass in a jiffy…\u00a0\u00a0And I have an adorable nine-month old who\u00a0makes me want to spend all my waking moments\u00a0in her company!<\/p>\n
Just\u00a0the other day, I was reading an interview with an Indian\u00a0writer I admire (while commuting), where he was speaking of how writing is a solitary activity. In spite of being over 70 years old, he makes an effort to rise at 7 am every day and write the whole day.\u00a0 So I got thinking about all the movies I’ve seen in which budding writers leave their homes and go to the mountains to finish their book… wondering if that’s the only way possible.\u00a0 Seriously, sometimes life is so fast-paced and demanding that\u00a0I find days go by without even finding\u00a0time to read<\/em>, let alone write.\u00a0 And when you do find time, you may not be in the right frame of mind to produce anything of substance.<\/p>\n After all, writing takes discipline. And time. And effort.<\/p>\n I will not attempt to offer solutions for all of the above, but a\u00a0blog I subscribe to – 43 folders – does offer some helpful tips to get out of writer’s block<\/a> :<\/p>\n Quit beating yourself up<\/strong> – You can’t create when you feel ass-whipped. Stop visualizing catastrophes, and focus on positive outcomes.<\/p>\n Take a walk<\/strong> – Get out of your writing brain for 10 minutes. Think about bunnies. Breathe.<\/p>\n Try freewriting<\/strong> – Sit down and write anything<\/em> for an arbitrary period of time–say, 10 minutes to start. Don’t stop, no matter what. Cover the monitor with a manila folder if you have to. Keep writing, even if you know what you’re typing is gibberish, full of misspellings, and grammatically psychopathic. Get your hand moving and your brain will think it’s writing. Which it is. See?<\/p>\n