Turn Writer’s Blocks Into Stepping Stones!

Years ago at a presentation at the UCLA Extension Writers Program, I promised an audience to teach them to conquer this beast once and for all. Later, another instructor approached me and said why did you say that to those people? Its not possible.

Poor woman. All she was saying is that SHE cannot break writers block, which told me all I need to know about her career. In all likelihood a promising beginning, perhaps an award-winning poem or bookand then pain.

It is not only possible to end writers block forever, but you can actually use it to your advantage!

First, let us define it in some useful way: Writers block is the inability to

1) Produce new text.
2) Edit and polish existing text
3) Finish projects on a reasonable schedule
4) Send those projects out for editorial judgment.
5) Continue sending them out until they are sold.

Accepting the above, Im going to give you a definition of the root cause of Writers Block that will actually help you in every arena of your life.

Writers Block is nothing more than a confusion of two different states of mind: the Flow state, where you produce new text, and the...