Eric FitzMedrud
I heard this attributed to Stephen King but I don't know if it is true. The story is that someone asked him how to cure writer's block and he replied, "Butt glue." My answer isn't far off.
I was trained in a creative writing program in high school using "Writing Down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg. We did daily "free writes." Sit and write for a predesignated amount of time. This trained me in the habit. Sit. Write.
Sometimes, we'd write nonsense. Sometimes we'd write beautiful purple passages that got cut from final works. The point wasn't to focus on the outcome but just to keep writing. If you write the same word, or just expletives or nonsense dialogue to yourself, at least you are writing.
I was trained in a creative writing program in high school using "Writing Down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg. We did daily "free writes." Sit and write for a predesignated amount of time. This trained me in the habit. Sit. Write.
Sometimes, we'd write nonsense. Sometimes we'd write beautiful purple passages that got cut from final works. The point wasn't to focus on the outcome but just to keep writing. If you write the same word, or just expletives or nonsense dialogue to yourself, at least you are writing.
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