Tiffani Angus
Because I don't get as much time to write as I would like, I don't experience writer's block very often. I don't have the privilege of waiting around for 'the muse' to strike, as it were. So when I have time to write, I have to get to work!
I explain it this way to my students: waiting to feel like writing means that you are never going to do it. Instead, you have to DO a thing to FEEL like doing it. Taking action changes your brain a bit in that moment, and then the doing of it becomes easier. So when they are stuck, I tell them to start writing anything--even if it's just a diary entry on why they don't want to write or don't feel like writing or don't think they can write. The DOING of it will lead to feeling like doing it. (Instead of waiting to feel like doing it before doing it.)
I explain it this way to my students: waiting to feel like writing means that you are never going to do it. Instead, you have to DO a thing to FEEL like doing it. Taking action changes your brain a bit in that moment, and then the doing of it becomes easier. So when they are stuck, I tell them to start writing anything--even if it's just a diary entry on why they don't want to write or don't feel like writing or don't think they can write. The DOING of it will lead to feeling like doing it. (Instead of waiting to feel like doing it before doing it.)
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