When You Can't Get Through Writer's Block

[Webster]

Is anyone else familiar with this situation?  Are you in a position where you're far into the block and just cannot--for the life of you--dig yourself out of it?

Its' happened to me every so often; I just keep writing..and writing..and writing; usually that just breaks the writers' block, given enough time.

Yeah, I was at that point a year ago, and it quickly became much more difficult to write anything at all. Now I haven't written anything in quite some time, almost a year.  I essentially gave up writing because it's too stressful and too painful to think about how badly I wish I could do it, but simply cannot.

Try writing about different topics...when writer's block stops you in one spot, pivot and go in another.

 

[Dee]

Is anyone else familiar with this situation?  Are you in a position where you're far into the block and just cannot--for the life of you--dig yourself out of it?

Its' happened to me every so often; I just keep writing..and writing..and writing; usually that just breaks the writers' block, given enough time.

Yeah, I was at that point a year ago, and it quickly became much more difficult to write anything at all. Now I haven't written anything in quite some time, almost a year.  I essentially gave up writing because it's too stressful and too painful to think about how badly I wish I could do it, but simply cannot.

Try writing about different topics...when writer's block stops you in one spot, pivot and go in another.

Yeah, I have. In a year, you do just about anything you can think of. Everything from changing the subject, the genre, the location in which you're writing, etc. There's a lot more that I tried, but none of it has worked and so I stopped all together since it was too stressful to force myself.