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The Dreadful Writer’s Block

Tips, Tricks, and Strategies for Overcoming

Writer's Block

Written by Anthony Van Dyke

It does not matter if you have been writing for a few weeks, several years, or
many decades. We all face writer's block at some time in our lives. It has
stopped the flow of creativity and our road to be a great author, while others have
learned to overcome and move on to be some of the greatest writers.

Something unique happened when I joined my first Writing Club with Tech Trep
Academy. I had an excellent opportunity to meet with two unique and talented
students who inspired me. One of those students mentioned they were in a rut of
writer's block. They were the inspiration for me to take the time to write this
article so that our young learners will know how to handle this hurdle when it
comes.

Some writers may say that it is all in your head and not real. You love to write,
and the first thing you do in the morning before school is to write for at least an
hour. Then one day, you wake up to write, and you draw a blank. You do not
know what to write. You go through your day and still cannot think of what you
want to write about. Weeks go by, and you still have nothing. Now, look at that
first sentence. Is writer's block real? I believe it is. For a writer, it is our job to
learn to overcome this obstacle. Work through it and find a way for your creative
juices to flow. For example, my inspiration for this article came from a student in
the Writing Club.

I want to share with you my own experience of writer's block. I wrote my first
stage play in 1995 because my teacher said the book I was reading would make
a great play. I love English and writing stories. After High School, I could not
think of anything to write.

Time went by, and I joined the U.S. Army. Still could not write. Where was that
creativity that I knew so long ago? I was stationed in Germany, and I would look
out my window down onto a lonely, empty baseball field. I would imagine
parents watching the game as the children sang and danced around the nearby
tree. As impressive as this sounds for a scene in a play or chapter in a book, I
still drew a blank.