Writer's Block Help
Overcoming Writer's Block
With Author Silvia Hartmann
Writer's block can have a number of different causes. Here
are the most common reasons for writer's block and what you can do to overcome
it in quick and simple terms from UK Author Silvia Hartmann
(see list of published books).
Writers Block Because Of
Stress - Writers Block By Logjam -
Writers Block Trauma -
Writers Block Belief -
Writers Block Pissing Off The Muses -
A Life Without Writers Block
 Writer's
Block Caused By Stress
If you are stressed, your conscious mind goes out of sync with
your energy mind which streams the ideas, visions and story lines you need to do
your writing properly.
The more stress there is, the more disturbance - like a TV
channel getting out of tune.
You know your life as a writer best - are you calm, relaxed,
healthy, flowing freely in body and mind?
If no, then there's your prime cause for Writer's Block -
adrenaline poisoning.
Here are my top tips for stress induced Writer's Block:
1. STOP
Yes, stop. Stop trying to write because you're going to drive
yourself even more crazy and you're going to get even more stressed out. And
there will be even less data flow as a direct result! So stop writing first of
all, but also STOP other things that are causing you the most stress in your
life.
2. SAY NO
Be REALLY BRUTAL with yourself and others. Protect your time.
Say NO! loudly to demanding bosses and relatives. Protect your time and your
space with everything you've got - this is YOUR LIFE, and you're not going to be
any good to ANYONE if you don't get yourself calmed down and working properly
again.
3. DON'T BE AFRAID
Do NOT allow yourself to dwell on problems and fears that you
have about the past, present or future. MAKE YOURSELF stop stressing as much as
you can. TAKE YOUR MIND OFF everything, no matter how or what - the less fear
you feel the less often, the more resourceful and intelligent you become, and
the more capable of actually solving the problems that are causing you fear and
stress.
4. LEARN TO DE-STRESS QUICKLY
LEARN methods to de-stress rapidly. I recommend EFT, EmoTrance
and Project Sanctuary. Find an excellent
"anti stress self help protocol"
here.
Think of stress and adrenaline shocks as your worst enemy,
because they are. They make you stupid and sick and they'll destroy your life
and all that's good about you! Not kidding.
You can NOT create under high stress. Don't even try. De-stress
first, then we can go back to thinking about what you're trying to do when
you've calmed down.
5. STAND UP FOR YOURSELF
People don't understand artists or what they need. YOU NEED TO
FIGHT FOR YOURSELF. Don't wait for someone you love and trust to come to your
rescue - they simply don't understand. But YOU DO. Stand up for yourself as
though you were your own best friend and samurai champion. Give yourself
what you know you need, whatever that is. This is what "loving yourself" means -
to stand up for yourself and to fight for your present, and for your future.
Now on to some other reasons for experiencing Writer's Block.
Writers
Block - Writer's Logjam
This is really interesting because here, a person doesn't have
enough ideas, they have way too many.
They start on one, go to another, and another, nothing gets ever
finished and all those unfinished projects pile up and cause a logjam - and
nothing moves at all any longer.
Not knowing that this is so, writers will DESPERATELY try to get
MORE AND MORE ideas, thinking they've run out, and that makes the logjam ever
worse until not a trickle gets through the dam any longer and we really have now
absolute writer's block.
The solution for this is to take any one of THE OLD PROJECTS at
the base of the logjam and to FINISH IT.
You don't have to finish it well or polish it for publication;
you just need to get to a place where you can type THE END under that particular
manuscript, that's all.
You'll experience an enormous sense of relief, and two or three
projects later, the log jam begins to undo itself and you can feel the writer's
block receding, breaking up, and new and other ideas coming to you again.
The remedy for this type of writer's block is to make a decision
as soon as possible when you have an idea for something whether you are going to
act on the idea (write the whole thing), shelve it (write a synopsis into a note
book and forget about it) or let it GO.
Letting good ideas go is something a lot of writers find
difficult AS HELL, especially if there's a commercial aspect to it that bodes
for good sales in potential; but creativity is a flow and the tighter you cling
on to old ideas, the worse your writer's block becomes and the more the trickle
of ideas slows down.
Just know that for every idea you can let go of, you'll get
another ten.
With that in place, you should be able to totally overcome
writer's block based on logjams, as well as being able to spot when you're about
to create another one!
Belief
Induced Writer's Block
Another form of writer's block comes about when a person
believes that they've "lost it".
This can happen quite quickly in a moment of stress - the person
goes to the place where the ideas are held and THEY'RE NOT THERE ANY MORE. There
is just - nothing.
OH MY GOD! I'VE LOST IT!
In that moment, this thought becomes an affirmation, and creates
reality.
What you need to do is to rescind all such thoughts and affirm
the opposite - I can generate ideas and visions at will and at any time, it's
easy!
Play Project Sanctuary
and you'll never lose anything again. That's my advice.
Writer's
Block Induced By Trauma
Sometimes a serious trauma like a traffic accident, a loved one
dying or leaving, or an illness can temporarily shut off the communication to
the systems of creativity.
A "trauma" is an actual injury in the energy system; you could
say that some powerlines have been blown up and the data transmission is
interrupted.
If your writers block happened shortly after a very traumatic
time in your life, or a traumatic incident, I strongly recommend you work with a
MET practitioner, or an EmoTrance practitioner, to repair the damage that was
caused.
Apart from not being able to write any longer, there are much
greater mental and physical health risks involved in trying to walk around with
a severely damaged energy system. Seek help and do it as soon as possible. Find
an affordable practitioner, don't think it's more important to save money and
stay sick. Do something about it TODAY!
MET Pracs can be found on
http://theamt.com and EmoTrance Pracs at
http://emotrance.com
Writer's
Block By Pissing Off The Muses
The final reason for people experiencing sincere and long
lasting, possibly permanent writer's block or block on their creativity in
general is what I call "pissing off the muses".
Darwin noted that after he spent some 25 years just cataloguing
data and counting birds and beaks he seemed to have lost his ability to connect
with art completely and said it was a terrible loss to him.
If you spend too much time on non-creative stuff, like counting
beans, your energy mind gives up, gets sad and leaves the building because it
thinks you don't want it anymore.
You need to always, ALWAYS keep an ongoing communication with
your energy mind, or else it will atrophy like legs that are never used.
You need to make your creativity a part of your daily life. Talk
to invisible friends, paint, draw and sculpt; try and remember your dreams and
don't be ashamed of talking of esoteric things that "have not been
scientifically proven" to yourself and your friends.
Flex your visioning wings as often as you can, that makes them
grow stronger.
Learn to play Project
Sanctuary, or use The Genius Symbols.
That is going to help, guaranteed, to stop your true creativity and intelligence
from atrophying through lack of use or interest on your part.
A
Life Without Writer's Block
In my books, my creativity is the MOST PRECIOUS THING I have in
my life, way beyond everything else. I make a HUGE effort to thank it, to
celebrate it, to have it be around me ALWAYS, and the more I do, the more joyous
I get and the better my life becomes.
DO NOT LET ANYONE TELL YOU EVER THAT YOU'RE BETTER OFF
FORGETTING ABOUT YOUR FANTASY NONSENSE AND GETTING A REAL JOB INSTEAD!
Stand up for your creativity.
Celebrate it.
Protect it.
Keep the stress down.
And I promise you, writer's block will be a thing of the past
for you as well!
Lots of sparkling colours and infinite worlds to you,
Silvia Hartmann
August 2008
Writers Block Because Of
Stress - Writers Block By Logjam -
Writers Block Trauma -
Writers Block Belief -
Writers Block Pissing Off The Muses -
A Life Without Writers Block
Writer's Block Help © Dr
Silvia Hartmann 2008.
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