Writers Block - what do you do to get of your funk?

Some great ideas have come to me while jogging, cycling, or in social activities, etc. The recording function on most cell phones quite often serves as a temporary dictation device for spur of the moment insights when in situations where it's not convenient to grab pen and paper. Sitting down to "write something" is not my style.

Go for a walk, visit friends, go to a park. Mainly, make a clean break from writing for a while and change the source of your stimulus.

Life is a balancing act and I can only do one thing for so long before I need a change.

And, yeah, like John Galt said, re-read a John D. McDonald novel. He was one of the best, most emotive authors ever.

I'm with the rest of the folks on doing something physical. Usually a complete distraction that allows my mind to do it's own thing for a while is good to get me out of a funk.

If I'm stuck, I do more research. I also have a look at some of the PLR articles sitting on my hard drive. They're so poorly written it usually motivates me to do better. Also, since they are always designed for keywords, they sometimes give me ideas for angles on a topic that I hadn't considered.

This is excellent advice and it works for me. But apart from that I watch one specific video by Brian Tracy. It is about 60 minutes long and it is about 10 steps to become successful.

Thanks for the suggestions, I go for a power walk every morning, so physical isn't the issue and I eat right ... I detest fast food and am a bit of an organic nut, but not too extreme, I make sure my diet is healthy. I meditate and do reiki every morning, so physical, diet and spiritual are not issues for me. It's not that I don't have topics going through my brain, it's just I don't feel like writing. I want to, but just don't feel like it and to me that's my block.

Come to the Warrior Forum, look for the most popular threads, read the replies, jot down a few notes, write your article, mission accomplished.

I won my first writing award at the age of 13 - comedy was my favourite subject! I stopped writing creatively in my late teens and didn't pick it up again for over a decade later, when I then managed to get my work published in offline trade magazines.

I've suffered with writer's block on and off a lot for years. Sometimes, when I want to write and plan to, I seem to find 101 little things to do that are more important than writing. Other times I can spend two hours trying to get a single paragraph down only to feel dissatisfied with my work and have to start again.

Recently, I wrote some content for a site - four separate web pages and three blog posts. It was on a subject of which I am knowledgeable and enjoy writing about. That same day, I went back to a writing project that had proved challenging, and the words began to flow. So for me, writing about something I really like, whether it has commercial benefit or not, seems to help me out.

What I will say is, if you can write 30 articles in four days, that's great going. I read somewhere that Ernest Hemmingway re-wrote the last chapter of one of his best sellers 49 times! So I guess there's hope for the rest of us!

Since reading this book , I've never really had "writer's block" for any articles or online writing. It's not intended for writers at all, but contains some very useful things applicable to that purpose. (I see that the two reviews of it at Amazon are both so over-the-top as to be bordering on unintentionally comical!).

First I take a break. Then, for me, it depends on what I am writing. If the topic is informational, I do some research until I hit on something that strikes my interest. If I am working on a fictional piece, I sometimes try relaxing (a hot bath works wonders for me), or reading something I love in the same genre. For some reason, reading other works tends to get my creative side going.