Reply #2: Try a different approach - a kind of reverse psychology [View All]

[sybylla]

Sometimes, when I sit down to write creatively, words fail me. But if I sit down with a note pad, my favorite pen (because I'm a pen snob) and my preferred beverage, then tell my self I'm just going to play with words and put thoughts on paper, what ever they are, things just start to flow. It's almost like giving your creative self a playground and permission to play.

On the other hand, what seems to block me most are the stresses of my daily life - dealing with in-laws, teenagers, my business, my unfulfilled hopes. There are days where I have to get that all off my chest before I can write. That also means a notebook, my favorite pen and preferred beverage. But this time, I purge. I bitch, complain, whine, argue, cry, scream - all on paper. Well almost all on paper. When it's all done, I can sit down to write without those things that stress me shoving my creativity aside like a bully on the playground looking for attention.