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Managing Writer’s Block
As if writer’s block is even real
“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer.”
— Barbara Kingsolver
I’m often asked if I ever grow weary of writing and how I can possibly write every day, as if religiously.
If I’m not blogging, I’m journaling or working on my poetry book or taking new stabs at my novel regarding energy and the chakras.
Words roam my mind constantly, so I hardly understand the queries of my peers: how can I not have any words to write when my thoughts are in a constant state of flow?
I don’t “have” the time to write because I don’t own time (time is abstract, anyway). What I do is make goals for myself and conquer them, one word at a time. I find any spare moment attained and sit down with my thoughts not yet on paper.
I awaken early so I can write. I record my thoughts on my phone. On loose leaf paper. On my laptop. In my sketch notebooks. At work, in a fleeting moment.
I’m constantly writing so I can allow my thoughts to be heard and seen and felt.
