Removing the Writers Block Three by Maryann Scheufele

Dear Cyber Readership,

Early in the morning I find a place to write and go back to that same place when I write the next time. It works. the message that I’d like you to receive about getting on with writing is that a writer must write. If you are thinking about writing in the back of your mind then their must be a way to move that thought towards the front of your mind. The thought placed in the correct position in the mind enables action towards achievment. Repositioning the thought process is like anything else in the physical world in that it takes movement. When I am actively writing, without any writers block I am thinking I am writing often times during the day. For example, I could be baking cookies in the kitchen and forming ways of writing ideas at the keyboard in my mind as I use the spatula to lift cookies of the cookie tray. That analogy does not really explain the process of moving a thought into the position of taking action but I am working towards the conscious effort . How about this the dog is barking every so often in the back yard and I know thatTo keep the peace, I ought to get her now – what will the neighbors think. I have to go and let her in to feed her but I am not ready to yet. I hope that she will stop barking. I half listen for her bark, knowing that she will bark again soon enough to annoy me. When I am thoroughly aggravated by her constant yipping and yapping I will bring her in to feed her, and usually that is before not to long. Writing is similar except for the part about being aggravated. Once I write it is a pleasure. The editing is more work than writing, but again that is a different position of thought. She is going to totally annnoy me so I will go and let her in now. Thoughts are not totally free when that are forced to respond to situations around oneself. The writers environment becomes a necessary part of life in order to function. Knowing that you have that special place to return to and or that special time of day to begin writing again will be helpful. Once a writers block has been removed from the mind a writers whole perspective on life and demeanor may change. A peaceful environment if only for a specified part of your day can help a writer to write all of those ideas that were contemplated halfway of intensely throughout the other parts of the day. It is not necessary to run back and forth to the keyboard thinking that ideas are popping into your head that you need to write down. Those ideas take root as long as they are watered with daily attempts to write and are given sunlite when they appear in the written form across the pages. The beauty of writing again is that a confident person emerges. When the mind has repositioned the concept of writing and has achieved the placesetting, timeslotted, writer’s lifestyle, a writers block has been removed. The first thing that I have come to realize after removing my own writers block is that completing other written projects happens. For me, I begin to have vision of new ideas, new writing subjects or stories, but I know that I must complete a few other unfinished projects first in order to move on. Some projects I have had hanging around for years. I set out to accomplish the completion of projects I began long ago. I know that as I complete things I am making the space in my mind to accomplish new writing projects in my future. I find I have to let go of things, tose ideas that have been habging around in my mind. By that I mean, I have to complete then move to the next, complete then think of something new. Moving forward, I am publishing A Brave Woman from Gottenheim. The story was written and illustrated about seven years ago and I can not believe that much time has gone by but it has. Oh well. I will publish and move on to the next thing, which is writing Adrian’s Wagontrain Adventure, which has been in the works for about a year. All the while I write a bit along with working on accomplishing completing the projects I have going on as I blog. I am approaching the blog lately with the mindset of freewriting and I hope it works. As always, a pleasure to get up in the morning to write.

Your Friend,

Maryann ScheufeleAnza Books

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