One of the questions I usually ask during the interviews I do on Working Writers has to do with writer’s block. Specifically, the question is:

Do you believe in writer’s block? If so, how did you get past it? If not, why not?

I ask the question this way because I, personally, do believe writers can get blocked. I’ve never experienced it, but I think it can happen. I’ve always had too many projects at once going on, so if I got “stuck” for a minute I might hop to the next thing. But I acknowledge that a writer under deadline can get blocked.

I’ve come across some wonderful advice for writers in regards to this area. If you’ve experienced writer’s (or blogger’s) block, here are a few posts that could possibly help.

• Great post by Nadia Ballas-Ruta called “Writer’s Block…A Thing Of The Past,” over at Write to Done.


• I recently met Marcus Sakey at a booksigning, and found that he had some wonderful tips for writer’s on his website. One of them is an article called “How Not to Knock Yourself Out of the Game” and another is “Celestial Navigation.” I think you’ll find them both helpful. (And don’t forget to read our interview with Marcus if you haven’t yet!)
• National Novel Writing Month begins soon, and it leaves no room for writer’s block. I found some very fun “Widgets to Cure Writer’s Block for NaNoWriMo” over at the Language is a Virus site.

Bloggers aren’t immune to getting writer’s block either. In fact, it might happen more often to bloggers, especially when they have so many different blogs they are trying to populate. Here are a few posts about blogger’s block.

• Sometimes writer’s block is wrapped up on stress. On Yaro Starak’s Entrepreneur’s Journey blog, he lists ““6 Tips To Reduce Your Stress.”
• Darren Rowse mentions ways to combat blogger’s block at his blog, ProBlogger.
• John Chow lists “Five Things To Do When You Have Nothing to Blog About,” at his popular blog. (Something tells me John doesn’t suffer from this very often!

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