I get writer's block a lot. I want to finish the novel I am writing this year and get it published. How do I get over writer's block?

Andrew

How many books have you read? None of you wannabe amateur authors who claim to be writing a novel have read any decent novels. That's why you don't have any idea what you're doing. "Writer's Block" has become a term appropriated by idiots who are under the mistaken impression that books are produced via osmosis. Read some goddamn books. That's where ideas come from.

MsBittner

Count me among the people who don't believe in writer's block. It's a cool sounding excuse for not writing when writing is difficult and results wholly unsatisfying. Many people who claim they're blocked simply don't know what comes next. They're not blocked. They're people who need structure for the whole work before they begin. Others need to do daunting research, or lack the emotional maturity to write what they need to, or realize they're not good and become frustrated, or expect first drafts to be decent. None of that's being blocked. If someone held a gun to the head of someone you loved but wouldn't shoot if you wrote for an hour, could you write? Uh-huh.

They Pelted Us With Rocks And Garbage

Have you tried drinking? Or Meth, Michael Moorcock used to write a novel in a long weekend on speed.

Whatever

Put butt in chair and write. If you truly wanted to write this novel then you'd stop using writer's block as an excuse and get to writing.

Sir Caustic

You don't. You just continue to use it as an excuse as to why you can't write. It's an important psychological crutch.

Nikki

have you tried physical exercise, like road-running? try running a little everyday for your health; it helps physically but mentally-emotionally as well. i read in psychology, there is a direct correlation between doing physical work with your hands and your mental health. many rehabilitative psychological programs use physical activities to help with function. for instance, there is a direct relation between using our hands and our minds: go buy half a dozen concrete blocks, then each day, re-organize these blocks into a pattern, any pattern you like. stacking blocks, think about that.

Anonymous

Publish it with a cliffhanger. Nobody will read it anyhow.

jean

instead of writers block it is dumbheads block

Bela

Try smoking some weed and then sitting down at the keyboard and just start typing.

Barry

Go on holiday to somewhere remote such as a Greek Island.