Defeating Writer’s Block and Updates

Hi folks!

I’m excited to tell you that I’m working on a guest post for Jasmine Eclipse about my experience with the publishing process! It’s going to be fun and informative. If you are interested in the publication process or you have your book written and aren’t sure what to do with it this should help guide you in the right direction.

After a few friends asked me about “writer’s block” I thought I’d write a short post about how I deal with that ever present threat:

I, like many other writers, often suffer from writer’s block. Worse than that though, I have a terrible case of the procrastination. On top of that I’ve got this handy little voice in my head that often reminds me, just as I’m getting to the end of a piece of writing, that it’s a piece of garbage and I should abandon it.

So how, you might be wondering, did I overcome these debilitating writing afflictions? There are a thousand and one solutions to these kinds of problems and I’ve tried a significant portion of them to varying degrees of success. Right now though I’d like to share the one that worked and is still working, for me: I made myself accountable.

Woo boy that sounds fancy. Well, it’s not. I gathered up a team of friends with expertise in the fields I needed support in and asked them to join me in my project. They agreed and suddenly I had a team of people who were counting on me to produce top quality material for them to edit, illustrate, and market. I naturally try to please people, especially the ones I like so when I imagine letting my team down it makes me far, far more anxious than trying to resolve a tricky plot point or infuse some personality into a flat character. This makes it a lot easier to sit down and bang out a thousand words even when I’m not quite feeling “the flow”.

If you’re suffering from any of the above afflictions, I suggest you find something or someone that will hold you accountable and make it the most important part of your writing process. You know yourself better than anyone else so put all of those little neurosis to use!

Inform your doctor if following the above guidelines results in: elevated heart rate, unusual hair growth, uncontrollable twerking, or a writing session that lasts over four hours.