Here’s how anyone can overcome writer’s block…Just write! Now you are probably saying WELL I CAN’T WRITE, YOU IDIOT, I HAVE WRITER’S BLOCK. But the secret cure to writer’s block is to just write something. Write anything, write utter garbage and nonsense if you must, but just keep writing. I guarantee that if you keep writing garbage, eventually you’ll write something good. And then you’ll do it again. And again, and then you’ll start to write the good stuff more and more frequently.
When I was younger, I wanted to write fiction, but I utterly sucked at writing. I couldn’t write anything good to save my life. Then after reading Natalie Goldberg’s Writing Down The Bones, which I highly recommend, I decided I would just write.
Now this was back in the days when we used pen and paper to write, so I got a notebook and pen, and I would give myself a time limit, and just write nonstop whatever came out until the time limit was up. I started with five minutes and worked my way up to 20 minutes, sometimes more.
Most of what came out was complete nonsense, all of it was garbage, and it felt ridiculous, but something funny happened. After several weeks of doing this “freewriting” exercise, all of the sudden out of nowhere I started writing these really good poems. I’d never written a poem in my life before then, let alone a good one. And many months later, out of the clear blue one day, I wrote a really nice short story in one sitting.
I pretty much quit writing altogether a long time ago, to focus on work, business, family, etc. But since I started this humble little blog, I realize how difficult it can be at times to write something worth reading. If I want my blog to be good, I’m going to have to start writing bad stuff more often. I’ll try not to publish too much of it though. 
Posted by Tom 
