, posted a story on Instagram lamenting her lack of focus and progress during her early morning writing sessions recently. She received quite a few responses—many of which from writer-moms—something along the lines of “oh yes, I sooo relate” or “that describes my situation right now.” This also makes us recall the incredible session at last year’s retreat with Kimberly King Parsons who led us through some quick and fun games to help get through the writer’s block
In the spirit of commiseration and solutions, we want to hear from you:
1)Tell us about when you’ve had writer’s block — complain, commiserate, get it all out! and 2)What has worked to get you out of writer’s block?
Thanks for this! sometimes it is very helpful to commiserate in cameraderie. I took several online pitching classes with FB Binder and writing professor Susan Shapiro. Her wisecracks are awesome, including "plumbers don't get plumbers' block! They just get on with things." I see WB as similar to plodding along, one foot in front of the other, with my sandwich generation duties: I journal to complain and free write. Somehow I get a few sentences of writing down each day and a little me time. That refuels me for the next day.
WB is a problem, but it’s not when you can think of one. One word, one subject, one predicate, one verb, one sentence.
Thanks for this! sometimes it is very helpful to commiserate in cameraderie. I took several online pitching classes with FB Binder and writing professor Susan Shapiro. Her wisecracks are awesome, including "plumbers don't get plumbers' block! They just get on with things." I see WB as similar to plodding along, one foot in front of the other, with my sandwich generation duties: I journal to complain and free write. Somehow I get a few sentences of writing down each day and a little me time. That refuels me for the next day.