If you are a writer of anything, if you aren't familiar with writer's block now, rest assured your turn will come. Ideas seem to dry up. You don't know how to end it. Or maybe you get caught up wanting to perfect everything as you go - which, by the way, is a sure way to stifle your creativity!
Whether it be a letter, a book, an article, an email... if you can't stop tinkering and tweaking it, or you are suffering writer's block, stop wasting time with it.
This doesn't mean give it up for good...it just means give your brain a rest. Put it aside and do something else for a while. Maybe work on a different article for a while. Maybe go for a walk. Knit a jumper. Read a book. You get the idea. You need to take your mind off it.
Sometimes when we are too close to the words, we fail to see what's wrong with it or even what's right, and we tinker for tinkering's sake. Sometimes, we are our own worst critics!
When you come back to it with fresh eyes, you will see what really needs doing to it, if anything. Chances are nothing needs doing to it. There are a million ways to write something and you can't use them all in the one piece, so don't even try. Go with what works best in whatever piece you are working on and if your other ideas are clamoring to be aired, write them in a journal so you can use them another time.
Terri Levine
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