Overcoming Writers Block

When words won’t come, when your muse feels as dried and dead as old pencil lead, there’s one sure way to reconnect with your creative side. Close your eyes and recall your favorite childhood activity. I had many. From watching the Alpenrose Dairy fireworks to making mud dams to weaving buttercup chains to sneaking through the fence to play golf on the local course, I lost myself in the moment, as a child.

If you’re a parent, sit for five minutes watching your children play. If you’re not a parent, spend a moment or two at a park. Kids don’t pretend anything. They live in a world so real that our adult vision fades to pale shadows by comparison.  

Brenda Euland said, “…working is not grinding but a wonderful thing to do; that creative power is in all of you, if you give it just a little time…if you do not keep it out by hurrying and feeling guilty in those times when you should be lazy and happy.”

When your inner child becomes dormant, when the pen, pencil or keyboard grows mute, step back into a sweet childhood memory. Easily, gracefully, your inner poet will resurrect, eloquent and alive with a creativity that springs from the marrow of your bones and touches each reader with invisible fire.