It can be a daunting, haunting nemesis sometimes. Staring you down and daring you to write things. Making you question all sorts of life choices!
Here’s a trick…
When you set aside time to write, take 5 minutes at the top to journal about what you’re working on. Free flow, no rules, no pressure just write about your script/novel, where you left off, where you think you wanna go in today’s writing sesh, character questions you had or plot flags that could be a problem. Write about the weather or the Starbucks you’re in or the weird chair you’re sitting on.
Anything! After about 5 minutes. Stop and move over to your script/novel. I call this priming the pump.
It’s getting the juices flowing but in a non-committal safe space. Then launch into your story with the passion of a thousand dead poets! Wait, what?
Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of prose!!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR: S. David Acuff lives in North Hollywood, CA and edits full-time for Walt Disney Television. He enjoys doing voice work for Audible projects (The Barnburner, The WOW Factor Workplace, Where An Angel’s On a Rope) as well as animated characters (Angel Wars, Herman Goes to School). He authored the epic Sci Fi story Historians Proper and the YA drama High School Masquerade both available on Amazon. He also wrote/edited the feature film, Restoration, distributed by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
His life-motto is very simply, “What doesn’t kill you makes you funnier!”
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