I don’t know if I’ve mentioned it, but I’ve been taking coursework toward becoming a creativity/writing/life coach. It’s a lot of fun, a lot of work, and a lot of thinking.
In all that thinking and by interacting with my clients, I’ve come to realize one of, if not THE main reason we creative types become “blocked”: overwhelm.
I don’t want to get too deeply into this as I’ve just been invited to be a weekly guest-blogger on the creativity coaching topic and will address that issue in a post shortly–but suffice it to say that when you’re creative, you have soooooo, soooooo, soooooo (did I mention SO) many ideas, thoughts, avenues, insights, etc. running around in your mind that the prospect of settling down with ONE to work with is a little (a lot) scary, intimidating and truthfully–makes it easier to just shut down and do NO work at all for a number of reasons? (fear…)
Anyway…I like Cynthia Morris’s blog post on 13 Ways to Bust Through Writer’s Block because it helps narrow and focus us on things, small steps, that we can do to get back into the groove and happiness of creating. With the creative mind, nothing is more important than focus, and Cynthia’s list does that for us. Stop over if you’ve got a minute or are stuck. Break it down and get more done.
13 Ways to Bust Through Writer’s Block by Cynthia Morris at her Original Impulse Blog
Happy Unblocking,
Beth
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Thanks for sharing this with your readers, Beth. Isn’t it odd how our abundant imaginations can turn on us when we don’t rein it in every once in awhile? Ah, the challenges of abundant creativity.
Back to what I was writing. Focus, Cynthia, focus!
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