The Three Types of Writers Block & How to Combat Them 

Writes a novel in a few days while sat in a silent house

Oh my gosh that's genius! I'm stuck on a scene right now where both things are very important but it's been really difficult juggling them. I'll definitely try this approach :)

That is literally so smart, thanks for the tip

Definitely I'd try this... tysm 😊

The hero we need 🤗

As someone who's attempting to write my first book, I'm currently stuck. I've already written a good decent amount of the story my story has to plots, but they're connected with each. The prologue and good portion of Chapter 1. The prologue's plot has to do with the Crew of the ship Dove 1. Chapter 1's plot has to do with the Crew of the ship Dove 2. The part I'm having trouble writing is the important briefing on the bridge. I don't want to give too much detail. I'm doing something new that I have yet to see any author do. I'm combining the alien and space genre with the mermaid and ocean (sea). In my book, the world is divided by religion and magic. There are two forces, The Hope Force, who are the protagonists, and The Magic Elites, who are the antagonists who control the world. Chapter 1's plot takes place majority underwater.

Idk when I write something and if I have even got an inspiration from some movie I watched, I just feel bad like I copied and I probably can’t imagine things on my own.. idk it makes me self loathe more...

@@morningglory.213 Don’t fret my friend! Literally the entirety of our ideas take form from all the knowledge we possess; the ideas spring from the randomness of everything in our grasp. It is irrefutably important to take notes on everything, allowing your subconscious mind to take the ores of information, smelt them, and reform them to enable the creation of new ideas. That is how creativity flourishes. Originality, inevitably, is an unrecognisable form of imitation. Always read and write, for inspiration is the key to the chains of idleness.

@@funwithaiman thanks im working on all of this i generally give into my perfectionist tendencies

Thought I was all alone

😣😬. I know how it is so good luck.😳

you wrote everything I was just thinking. :)

Same here. It's actually quite scary (in a way) to start writing again, after not writing for so long.😅

@Mangekyou I do 5k and that's my absolute limit. Typically takes me 30 minutes to do 1k. But I find that I'm never actually hitting the 5k, I'm usually either falling behind and doing less or catching up and doing more!

@RPSI It's different for everyone. I only write 560 words a day because I like knowing that it's a goal I can easily reach, and this motivates me to aim higher. And on slow days I won't feel bad if I don't reach my daily wordcount goal because I'll never not reach it. Lol did that make sense

i have a tip...listen to music! but don’t just listen to it, really indulge in every word the singer is singing and invent a story off the lyrics. some songs i recommend are cigarette daydreams by cage the elephant, any harry styles songs tbh or me and my husband by mitski. hope this helped!

This exact issue has been causing me problems as well! Even trying things like writing outside on my porch or in my backyard have helped just to switch it up a little has helped, just for a little change of scenery, but the lack of variation has been a struggle for me too.

@@Reedsy Thanks for the tip!

Having multiple projects to rotate through is a fantastic strategy! I find having two projects on the go does wonders for my productivity.

These tips would work for any form, though it was made with novels in mind!

Bro I actually skipped the first 2, i checked out the second chapter and it's exactly what I wanted, thank you so much

If you are still having problems you could try thinking about how you want your reader to feel when they finish your novel. If it has a real emotional impact on them, or they were thrilled, or amused, then did it impact them enough for them to recommend that other people read your novel? Obviously there is no way to know this ahead of time, but it doesn't hurt to try to elicit good word of mouth by leaving the reader with an impactful ending. Sometimes there are many other weak scenes in a story, and it may even have a meh opening, but so long as it has a strong ending scene they may recommend it to others to read. Consequently, I think the end is more important than the beginning. I look at people in bookshops and many read the blurb on the back cover, and never read the first page. Some seem to look at a variety of books in a certain genre, like literary fiction, and buy one with a well designed cover. Really they just want to "look" a certain way when they are in a coffee shop. In a sense it is a prop. They may be going on a plane, and want to stop the man sitting next to them from starting up a conversation with them. I think that far too much emphasis is placed on crafting the first sentence. "You must have a hook!" people say, and every book that is like that just comes across as contrived and try-hard. People will read the first couple of paragraphs if they open the book at all, and they are looking to see if they can adjust to the style of the writer. They are checking most likely because they haven't read that author's work before. So, actually being clever and fancy with the first couple of paragraphs may backfire as it may not be as easy to read as the more settled prose narrative that you have yet to write midway through your novel. In a sense you may be lying to your reader by misrepresenting what your style is like, as you made a 120% effort over the opening and then did the rest at 65% Maybe you are premature with your plans to write about this character, or know a story you want to write but this character isn't all that planned out to be fit to be the right vehicle to tell that story. Often I think people have character-plot mismatches where they could take either one of them out of that pairing and make a new story out of the plot with different characters, or a new story out of a character having a different adventure. The first suits plotters, the second pantsers. Good luck.

@@____uncompetative thank you for that and I completely overcame my writers block, I am still learning to write and I could use all I can get, my book is going pretty well and my editor is impressed.

@@carol_dmolokoane9241 I'm very pleased to hear that.

It probably either just needs more time before it's ready, or you need to power through the beginning to build some momentum!

@@Reedsy thank your such an inspiration I hate it though I usually don’t get started because I just want it all to be perfect I find that struggle with perfectionism and over thinking and I just gotta let go of this idea that it’s gotta be the best flawless thing ever otherwise it’s not worth working on anyhow thank you 🙏