Writer\u2019s block is the devil.<\/strong><\/font> To my mind, it\u2019s like being trapped inside a Sartre play: locked inside a room with no windows and no way out. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been blocked lately \u2013 and it\u2019s actually not a normal state for me. In fact, this might be the first true writer\u2019s block I\u2019ve experienced in the last few years, if ever. <\/p>\n

Of course I\u2019ve been actively thinking about my stories every day, working them out in my mind, connecting the dots, but nothing was coming to the page. It was incredibly frustrating. <\/p>\n

Then I had a fantastic writers\u2019 group with my Albuquerque peeps. One of my peers, Chris, submitted a sci-fi story that was fantastic subject matter. We spent a good hour or more brainstorming ways to enhance and further flesh out the story. The material is very contemporary, unique, relevant, dense with social commentary, and resonant with connection. We all connected to the material in a very unique way, and I think this was why the discussion was so vibrant. <\/p>\n

It reminded me of something I always ask, \u201cWhere is your passion in this story?\u201d<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

So often, if material is feeling flat, it\u2019s likely not because the author didn\u2019t have a seed of passion within it, otherwise he wouldn\u2019t likely have written it. But, sometimes the passion doesn\u2019t find its way onto the page. It is always a helpful exercise to get back to that seed of passion<\/strong><\/font> and rediscover it and then grow it. <\/p>\n

When I returned home that evening after group, I sat down for a while and really tried to reconnect with the passion I had for my project, the seed of why I had to write it. I rooted down into why I was burning to tell this particular story, why it needed to come to light. Once I was able to reconnect into that feeling, I was able to push aside all the bullshit of why I hadn\u2019t been writing. That night I wrote several pages and then went on to finish that story. And now, poof, I\u2019m writing again. Forgot even why I hadn\u2019t been writing. Ridiculous. <\/p>\n

Getting back in touch with the passion of what you were trying to do initially, the feeling of it, can help you break through any barriers<\/strong><\/font>. It is also this passion that will find its way onto the page \u2013 and hopefully what you\u2019ll communicate to the reader. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writer\u2019s block is the devil. To my mind, it\u2019s like being trapped inside a Sartre play: locked inside a room with no windows and no way out. I\u2019ve been blocked lately \u2013 and it\u2019s actually not a normal state for me. In fact, this might be the first true writer\u2019s block I\u2019ve experienced in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":840,"href":"http:\/\/www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825\/revisions\/840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.screenwriter-to-screenwriter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}