http://amyletinsky.wordpress.com

Nevertheless sometime ago I did write a special post about ‘Generating Ideas’ that might of special interest to
the people that read this post.

You can find it at:

http://hpshappy.blogspot.com/2007/08/creating-write-ideas-with-igp.html

All the Best,
HP

As I wrote in my post entitled Freelance Writers, Suck it Up!, “Clients will forgive the occasional grammatical error, an error on an invoice and maybe even a completed project they didn’t exactly love. BUT, most will not forgive tardiness. This can kill your career before you even get it off the ground.”

Great guest post.

Think about newspaper editors and copyeditors, often working under intense pressure — some studies of stress rank those jobs up there with air-traffic controlling. When it’s time to roll the presses, editors always find a way to write that impossible headline. (With minute-to-minute online newspapering, the stakes are even higher.)

Writing is a craft as well as an art. If you develop a basic set of tricks and prompts, you’ll always be able to bypass mental barriers.

There’s a list of tips if you follow the hot link.

Darren – thanks :)

Darren

I have lots of excuses, all of them genuine, although strangely none of the ones you mention in your list.

I must be a hybrid.

Cheers

I tried to check out your blog at http://www.miscmum.com from the link on this post, by search and by searching on BlogHer. The links do not work and BlogHer search says that there are no results to match the query. It would be nice to read your latest parenting posts.

Back on track: Good points made here. While it may be true that writer’s block should not exist to professional writers and bloggers, there are days where some topics and ideas have been exhausted to the point that there needs to be some kind of “off time” to increase the frequency of writing. Everyone is not the same and cannot always pump out blog posts or articles for other mediums 24/7.

There are many helpful exercises that writers can use to maintain a steady level of productivity (like the great tips mentioned in your post). However, it does not necessarily mean that writer’s block is non-existent.

Karen – great post. I will definitely visit your blog.

I used to believe in writers block years ago. But once you discipline yourself to write every day it stops happening.
And if I do ever get stuck I just freewrite or do morning pages.

I think a lot of bloggers probably get blocked because they choose a blog topic that isn’t interesting enough to motivate them to write about on a regular basis.