A tip to help eliminate writers block.
Nike says to "Just do it!" but in reality, putting pen to paper or fingers to keyboard can still be a struggle for any writer. Sometimes simple works best.
My first suggestion for beginning to write is to create a prompt journal. From any encounter with words in your day, write down something: a headline, a phrase from a book you are writing or even part of that recipe you just used. You may even want to carry a small notebook with you or create a notes page on your phone specifically for your run-in with words.
An example you say? As I write this in a high school cafeteria, here are three that presented themselves to me: milk 2 go, magic music days, and first black detective.
Will I use these to create a story or poem or research paper or song? Don't know. But by recording them, I've already written something. I've charged past my writer's block and have something to show for it. As stated by Sammi LaBue "The only way to become a writer is to write" (Foreword, Words in Progress: The Creative Writer's Guided Journal).
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