7 ways to get over your writer’s block, according to published authors
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Article: ATW INTERVIEWS – Patricia McArdle
ATW INTERVIEWS – Patricia McArdle
How to Beat Writer’s Block – The New Yorker
Cognitive Dissonance and Writing
Writing prompt – field reporter
Next time you’re in a public place, make notes as if you have discovered something for the first time and want to capture all the details. What do you hear, see, smell, feel? Be specific.
Later, read through your notes, highlight words and phrases that interest you. Write these at the top of a new page. Using these as inspiration, write for at least 10 minutes without censoring or editing. Let the words flow, see where it goes.
If you’d like to share your writing or your experience of this and other writing prompts, please do – in the comments section.
Writing prompt – cafe observations
Go to to a cafe. Listen, observe. Make notes. Be specific: the thinning grey hair; the yapping dachshund; the coffee cups without handles. Read through your notes, highlight words and phrases that interest you. Write these at the top of a new page. Using these as inspiration,
write for at least 10 minutes without censoring or editing. Let the words flow, see where it goes.
If you’d like to share your writing or your experience of this and other writing prompts, please do – in the comments section.
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Writing prompt – inner critic #5
What stops you writing? Is there an internal critic that undermines your plans; tells you that your writing won’t be good enough; that you shouldn’t be writing? Write a dialogue, a debate between your inner critic and an inner supporter; someone who believes in you, and encourages you.
Write for at least 10 minutes without censoring or editing. Let the words flow, see where it goes.
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Writing prompt – inner critic #4
What stops you writing? Is there an internal critic that undermines your plans; tells you that your writing won’t be good enough; that you shouldn’t be writing? Write a fight 
scene between you and your inner critic. What starts it?
Write for at least 10 minutes without censoring or editing. Let the words flow, see where it goes.
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Writing prompt – inner critic #3
What stops you writing? Is there an internal critic that undermines your plans; tells you that your writing won’t be good enough; that you shouldn’t be writing? What if you had an inner supporter? An inner cheerleader? An inner mentor?
Write about one of these – supporter, cheerleader, mentor. Imagine what it would be like to have that encouragement.
Write for at least 10 minutes without censoring or editing. Let the words flow, see where it goes.
If you’d like to share your writing or your experience of this and other writing prompts, please do – in the comments section.
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Writing prompt – inner critic 2
What stops you writing? Is there an internal critic that undermines your plans, tells you that your writing won’t be good enough, that you shouldn’t be writing?
Notice what the critic is saying.
Write a dialogue with your critic. Write for at least 10 minutes without censoring or editing. Let the words flow, see where it goes.
If you’d like to share your writing or your experience of this and other writing prompts, please do – in the comments section.
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