You are reading this because you are not writing a new page or are hard pressed right now to be creative as if someone is standing over you and telling you to lay the golden egg.

Writing is an art but it has many of the same principles as communicating verbally. I use a combination of talking things out loud and writing my own eyes observations in a notebook or word doc. This takes my mind's focus off of the task at hand primarily and it fills my head with my surroundings which often help to form new ideas that can relate and may just be the key to the post or article I'm beginning or editing.

Other things I do to release my mind from Copy Bondage is simply go outside and pick up a stone or a small stick and then with the item I'll take a walk and simply roll the stone or break the stick over and over again and this aproach is especially good for poetry with me for some reason.

Other things that seem to help is to read other related articles about the subject matter I want to extrapolate on or pictures, art, videos, etc... Seeing things through other's eyes gives me a kind of auditorium view of the situation as if it were a gladiator in the Colosseum and you were getting all kinds of views from everyone else and seeing the gladiator from all kinds of angles so you can seek out which angle you want to expand on or a completely new angle of the whole fight.

Another thing I will do is contact the leaders in the field that I'm writing on and ask them for examples, main idea breakdowns and maybe a special comment just for my article.

There really is a plethora of things out here but be active in your pursuit of writing and don't let writers block hold you back for more than a few hours at most. If you let the clog sit it will cement itself in your mind and begin to convince you that you can't write and that you have problems when the only problem you have is that you are not with quill and ink and writing out your new article like this one that has helped me to refocus and continue writing other hubs.

I hope this sincerely helps you and is by no means a comprehensive hub on writer's block.

                   May Your Ink Run Freely,

                                                               Brian Fanslau