31 Days of Rut-Busting Tips For Writers for 2025—Day 17

Switch Your Style.

Feeling a little stale? That’s not uncommon.

While having a comfort zone when it comes to our writing—the same place, the same time, the same type of writing—can make getting into the mood easier, it can also lead to the “same old, same old” feeling.

We get the uncomfortable feeling that what we wrote today sounds a lot like what we wrote yesterday. Or last week. Or last month.

As Robert Frost said, “No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” And when we get stale,...