photo credit: Elrenia_Greenleaf You want to write, but how do you decide what to write? Perhaps you have sat down and tried to convince yourself that you were going to write non-stop for the next ten minutes. Ten minutes went buy, and you didn’t write much, or maybe you didn’t write anything at all. Has this ever happened to you? It has to me, and I know you feel horrible. So where do we start?...

Sometimes it’s hard to think of what to write. Let’s face it, we all go through it. Sometimes we need something to jolt our creativity and to jump-start our writing. Writing exercises are short activities that try to get you past the writer’s block you are probably experiencing, and back on track to do the kind of writing you want to do. Think of three of your favorite movies. Consider the main...

One great way to help you through writer’s block is to try to mind map, or cluster. In this effort youare trying to write down a word that is important to your story, or to your writing in general. Then, you associate the various factors that touch that key word. This should aid you in writing thoroughly. For example, let’s say I am starting a novel about a haunted house. I might start the mind...

If you write, you have experienced “writer’s block.” There are many definitions for writer’s block, and frankly, they all amount to the same thing – you are not writing. Whether you have too much anxiety, you feel paralyzed, you don’t know what to write next, you can’t decide which project to focus on next, or _________ (fill in the blank), the point is the same –...