Unlock Your Creative Potential: Little Known Tips to Beat Writer's Block & Get Words Flowing Again!

Devlin Blake Author

Conquer writer's block! Expert tips for beginners to unleash creativity. Understand its causes, develop a growth mindset, stay motivated. Achieve your

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Ok, get ready. Today, I’m going to give you some controversial advice about writer's block for new writers.

When you come up against it, stop writing.

Shocked?

Well, stay tuned, and I’ll explain why.

Hi novelteers, I’m Devlin Blake, Novel Writing & self publishing Expert, Coach, published author, and former ghostwriter of over 200 books. If you’re writing a book, be sure to check out my Novel Writer’s Club, featuring self directed courses, weekly crits, ask me anything, group coaching and more. You can find out more about it at the link below.

Stop writing?

You’ll notice this advice is the opposite given to most new writers.

After all, professional writers say it’s not real. And Stephen king gets inspired on demand. And writers like R. L. Stine  who has written over 300 books, and Nora Roberts who have written 255 books aren’t just sitting around waiting for inspiration to hit.

Do you notice the common thread here?

They’re all professional writers, not new ones.

They’re giving advice for professional writers. And it’s great advice for professional writers, but it’s the wrong advice for new writers.

Here’s why.

A professional writer has a process, a way of working that works for them. They know how long a book takes them to write. They know the internal structure that the books need to follow and what even moves the story forward. They have a bank of scenes and incidents they can call on a cast of characters they just recast for every story.

They have conquered most of their inner demons around writing and know most of this stuff by instinct by now. Some can even plot in their heads.

But you’re a new writer. You don't have any of this stuff yet. Don’t feel bad when you hit writer’s block. Writer’s block comes from not having any of this stuff yet.

Once you have all this stuff in place, and have your banks of incidents and characters, an internal way of knowing what goes where, and have made friends with your inner demons, you won’t have to worry about writer’s block anymore.

That’s the time to take advice about writing professionally.

But for right now, you’re still a beginner, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Go easy on yourself. You’re learning.

And just like you don’t expect a toddler just learning to walk to run a marathon, I don’t expect you to have the skills and experience to break through writer's block yet.

So what advice do I, a professional writer, have for a newer writer?

Simple.

When you hit writer’s block, stop writing.

Now is not the time to write, now is the time to think.

Think about your story and these characters. Think about them when you go for a walk. Think about them when you drink your coffee. Think about them when you’re doing the dishes. Think about them when you go to bed.

Read other books. Get immersed in your favorite TV shows and movies and try to dissect them.

It might actually take a few days for an idea to hit you, but I promise, after thinking about your characters and their situation for a while, an idea WILL hit you.

Of course, this involves knowing your characters well enough. If you don’t know your characters well enough, then it won’t work.

That’s why I recommend the Novel Writer's Club. I have a great course in there on characters, as well as one on plotting. There's also group coaching, weekly crits and more. You can find the link to the Novel Writer's Club below.

And when the idea finally does hit you, run with it.

Run with it until it completely runs out of steam. And if you’ve written all you can and the inspiration thread isn't gone yet, make some notes somewhere on how it all plays out.

This is how you move forward with your book as a first time writer. All that other stuff, systems, internalness, process, style, that will come with time, and more books. Of course, you can borrow my systems to get started. They’re in the membership site.

Until then, embrace your world, embrace your characters and think about them whenever writer's block hits.

The characters will tell you what they need.

Listen to them.

And enjoy this time of discovering your book and yourself along the way. The journey of the first book is special, and you’ll never have this experience of the first one again, no matter how many you write in the future.

And if you need more help writing your book, check out my novel writer's club at the link bellow.

And remember to please like and subscribe for more videos on Writing and publishing your novel in this brave new world.

Until next time, this is Devlin Blake saying Write On

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