How to Use Writing Prompts to “Unstick” Writer’s Block

By Savannah Cordova Stop me if you’ve heard this one: you’re at your desk, laptop or notebook open, hours stretching out before you… but you can’t seem to get the words down. You feel stuck, hopeless, and incapable of moving forward; in other words, you’ve got writer’s…
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Shoutout to my fellow #writers who break their #writersblock while sitting on the toilet.

I wrote several sentences today.

Any progress is progress.

heaped wads of paper
poetry shunning foul truth
bring a better world

The Truth About #WritersBlock

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/small-talk-and-big-questions/202503/the-truth-about-writers-block

𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒚𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔: 𝑨 𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕 𝑳𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔 (𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒉𝒚 𝒏𝒐𝒘?) -

Is there any reason at all in these anxious days to write a limerick? Of what value is it? Where resistance from it?

https://buff.ly/RdhCMve

So I actually wrote a bit of Third Prophecy yesterday..

I think I might be getting back into the swing of fiction again. Oh no.

-Allēna

I just want to say, readers, thank you so much for your patience. I’ve had years of writer’s block. But I’ve had a breakthrough, thank God, like a major one, and I have some gems here that I’m slowly and carefully extracting. It’s not about perfectionism, it’s about doing justice to the story and the subject. I will eventually give you the books you’ve been waiting for, God willing.
#writing #WritersBlock

I can’t think of my writing as a commodity—though that’s how modern society teaches us to see it. It’s something we produce and other people consume.

No. That’s wrong. That can lead to #writersblock because it focuses on what others want.

I can’t write to the market.

All I can do is offer up the thoughts coming from my heart/mind and trust that the people who resonate with them will find me.

So, we meet again.

Today, I faced a major roadblock in my writing journey. No matter what I tried, nothing seemed to work. In this video update, I share how I tackled the challenge.

https://youtu.be/W4wLCPbQI4U

ngl, I relate to this. lol

Back when good things could come from Davos:

“It was here that Robert Louis Stevenson overcame his writer’s block and finished Treasure Island; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started skiing in the Alps; and Thomas Mann thought of the idea for The Magic Mountain.”

1/3

https://lithub.com/a-brief-literary-history-of-davos/

I think I'm done piecing together the most important bits of my #kubernetes cluster and created a set of #ansible roles. Now it's time to actually provision the cluster in staging and see how it runs on the real hardware. But I kind of feel blocked. I'm done with a big chunk of work, and now I'm hesitant to take the next step. Is that the #itc #engineer version of #writersblock ? #k8s #automation #infrastructureascode #ias

I'm having one of those moments when I have no idea how to write a song and am convinced I'll never write one again.

For context, I wrote about one or two songs per month in 2024, and I traditionally feel this way after completing Every. Single. One.

A very slow Monday morning... Been just staring at the screen for the past hour, and the sleepy cat is not helping. Maybe I should just go back to bed

#WritersCoffeeClub JAN-01 What are your writing goals for 2025?

Honestly? Writing at all. I brought my #WritersBlock from 2024 with me into 2025, so I just gotta hope, we part ways rather sooner than later this year.