![]() That someone may not be able to solve the problem for you, but talking can help you to identify the problem yourself. From my experience it’s often easier to identify a problem when you talk about it, and have to explain to someone what you think the problem might be. Three things come to my mind on dealing with writer’s block: For those of you who need a schedule *and* a reason to stick to it, there’s one possibility. ![]() Since then, some of my friends have picked up the practice: write out the conditions, set the repurcussions, try not to breach your contract. I, like Brandon, thrive on scheduling pressure. They weren’t my motivation for writing, they were just my motivation to stick to a schedule. I absolutely hate wallsits, so they were motivation to finish my chapters on time (but if I did end up doing them, they helped keep me in shape for rugby). For this particular contract, if I failed to get the chapter up, I had to do lots and lots of wallsits (specifically, I did them while reading about 1.5 chapters of a Dickens novel). Of course, no contract is complete without breach-of-contract repurcussions. One of my more recent contracts was that I had to post a chapter in my novel’s revision on my writing group’s website every 30 days during winter semester. ![]() I write out the specific conditions and sign it, just as if it were really between two different people. To get myself to write, I’ve always found it useful to write contracts with myself. ![]()
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