I’m not gonna lie. My writing advice is pretty boring.
If you’ve been in a creative space with me for more than five minutes, you pretty much know my standard party line to anyone with a writing block of any kind: What if you wrote about that?
(In fact, for our next Writing Circle, I might consider just putting a mannequin in my chair with a t-shirt that says, “try writing about it…” and see if anyone notices.) You may wonder, "but, if I’m stuck with my writing, how will writing help?"
Ah.
Because this is not about writing.
This is about writing about writing, which is another thing entirely.
Completely blocked and staring at a blank page? Write about that.
Can’t figure out which topic to pick off of your long list? Write about that.
Major emotions bubbling up, preventing you from exploring the very message you thought you wanted to convey? Write about that. Don't know where to start, where to end, or what you want to say? Write about that.
Is this all just really darn hard? Write about that.
We often get so caught up in the project, the book, the article, the topic, the idea, the thing…the PRODUCTION of the thing…the OUTPUT of the thing… that we forget what a beautiful tool we have at our disposal.
To write is to explore, examine and discover.
So, perhaps writing about your writing has the potential to help you discover something new.
To write about the writing (or the not writing) can lead to a beautiful conversation with it.
It allows you to hold your writing up, take some distance from it, get around it, tell it what you feel and engage with it in a new way.
So, what do you want to write about your writing today?
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