If you’ve at any point experienced writer’s block you realize how disappointing it is gazing at a blank page or screen unable to write. Commonly, a writer’s block is brought by feelings of not being good enough and self-actuated pressure to write an ideal draft, otherwise called “perfect draft syndrome”
Here are some ways in which you can beat the blank page and wake up your imagination.
- Take a stroll around your neighborhood and search for something fascinating.
- Make metaphorical analogical associations between that fascinating thing and your problem.
- Open a dictionary and haphazardly point to a noun. Use it in a sentence. Try to connect between the word and your problem.
- Read different newspapers. Whatever you used to read, just reading the opposite ideas of that.
- Tape-record your ideas while you commute
- Keep a log of your ideas and your observation while you travel.
- Steal, think, from where or whom you can copy? (Austin Kleon’s Steal Like an Artist)
- Take a different route to your work.
- Change your workplace for a while. Like if you are working indoors, then try to move outdoors
- Think of the most bizarre idea you can. And then try to make it realistic.
- Make a song about what is happening around you.
- Talk to creative person you know
- Tell 4 people about your ideas, and know what they think
- Start Doodling as a daily habit. A lot of creative ideas come to mind while scribing over a napkin or envelope.
- Combine your thoughts and try to create something new out of them
- Take an old story or article and rewrite it with a different angle.
- Try to describe every problem in 1 word.
- Draw your problem paper. Do not use words just picture only.
- Talk to an absolute stranger about your problem.
- Change your daily routines.
- Mindmap your problems.