{"id":1742,"date":"2010-11-05T19:58:14","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T00:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisatener.local\/blog\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T13:00:45","slug":"writers-block-your-reader-can-help-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2010\/11\/writers-block-your-reader-can-help-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer’s Block? Your Reader Can Help You."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Your Book Writing Coach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Writer’s block doesn’t have to keep you stuck. Our emerging authors are on a roll. Several people reported–in Bring Your Book to Life<\/a> class Wednesday and this morning–that they’ve written several chapters in this week alone–one wrote four!<\/p>\n

3 Writing Secrets to Get Unstuck<\/h3>\n

Here are a few writing secrets that worked for them to get the writing done and escape writer’s block:<\/p>\n

* Scheduling exact times for writing, such as Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 9-11, in their calendars<\/p>\n

* Checking in with their buddy, me or the group forum if they need support<\/p>\n

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Time in nature can refresh you and support creative flow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

* Refreshing and rejuvenating before writing: a walk in nature, meditation, listening to music<\/p>\n

Return to Your Writing Vision; Let Your Reader Help You!<\/h3>\n

One student in today’s class had a hard time writing this week. I reminded her to go back to the vision\/intention statement she created in class the first week–why was she passionate about writing this book? What difference would her book make for readers?<\/p>\n

I suggested she get over writer’s block by returning to an exercise of envisioning her reader and writing to a very specific reader she imagines (or even a real person she knows who is the core audience (or demographic) for this book).<\/p>\n

*\u00a0 Imagine your reader who can’t pay her bills until she reads your money book and learns how to save.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0 Picture that person who’s afraid of public speaking and wins his first toastmaster’s award after reading your book.<\/p>\n

*\u00a0 Think about that mom who finally gets a good night’s sleep and a well-rested toddler when she learns your ground-breaking sleep system.<\/p>\n

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Imagine a specific reader and write to that person. You’ll get out of your ego and into your heart and the writing will flow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Write to that person as if you were having an intimate conversation or writing them a personal letter. Not only will the writing be more compelling when you imagine a specific reader, but when you think about someone else, you get out of your ego (where resistance resides) and into your heart.<\/p>\n

And that is how you can beat writer’s block.<\/p>\n

Looking for more tips? Carrie Barron, MD, author of The Creativity Cure, shares her tips for beating writer’s block<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writer’s block doesn’t have to keep you stuck. Our emerging authors are on a roll. Several people reported–in Bring Your Book to Life class Wednesday and this morning–that they’ve written several chapters in this week alone–one wrote four! 3 Writing Secrets to Get Unstuck Here are a few writing secrets that worked for them to…  Read more<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1,25,108,42],"tags":[152,153],"class_list":{"0":"post-1742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-book-writing-class","8":"category-more","9":"category-writing-blocks","10":"category-writing-classes","11":"category-writing-secrets","12":"tag-beat-writers-block","13":"tag-book-writing-classes","14":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279367,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/279367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}