1. There’s a lot for people to read out there, people keep writing. There’s a lot for people to listen to out there, people keep making music. There’s a lot for people to see out there, people keep making music, television, and art. Somehow artists keep getting read, listened to, and seen.

2. A lot of people are saying just write. Narrow that down ‘cause that can be overwhelming in its own right. First stop trying to write whatever you’re trying to write and write something totally different. Trying to write the next great science fiction novel? Write an essay about a factual historical subject. Trying to write a definitive work of scientific theory? Write a few haikus about romance. Trying to write your manifesto to show the world the truth? Okay, maybe stick with the writer’s block there.

Basically the writer’s block will or already has turned into a spiraling rut that’s going to get worse until you break it. You don’t get out of the path by following the path. Turn around and go the other way for a bit until you find some level ground.

And now that I’ve written this comment, I’ve broken my own writer’s block and can get back to writing hardcore erotic poetry in iambic pentameter. Pardon me while I try to make facial rhyme with glacial.

Depends on the writing honestly.

In general, just writing anything helps me. I realized you can fix something that’s bad (and you might realize it’s not that bad), but you can’t fix nothing.

It doesn’t have to be a home run every time.

More is lost to no decision than wrong decision.

I never get writers block but I also don’t write so maybe try that?

I write some short fiction, mostly just worldbuilding with a thin plot attached to make it more palatable. Sometimes just sitting down and forcing myself to put one word after the other helps. Sometimes I read similar stories to get inspiration. Sometimes I browse images to get in the mood. I have a mood board using Pureref that I fill with sci-fi stuff like mechs.

Since I’m first and foremost a world builder, not an author, I’ll try other media besides writing to express my imagination. Visual art is hard for me for various reasons but I try anyway. I’ve tried pixel art as well as 3D models (hooray for Blender!)

Don’t write for others. Write for yourself.

Readers are voracious and always looking for new things to devour. But your writing isn’t for them, its for you. Every page is slowly honing your craft, getting your ideas onto paper, and turning an amorphous idea blob into a tangible story.

I hate when people tell me this but annoyingly it works, but sometimes ‘just write’ is a solid strategy to just start putting words on the page. Sometimes its rough and you’ll want to go back to edit it, sometimes seeing things start to flow is a great feeling, and the words get easier.

The other trick is spite. Just lots of spite. Spite for the sometimes terrible writing that gets published anyways, spite for the reader who you might lure into falling into love with a character you plan to brutally murder, and spite for the music player that can’t seem to find the right song to match your mood for the scene you’re writing.

I guess it depends on what you’re writing. I don’t write stories, as in novels, but i have written things down to try and plan 3D projects.

First it starts as research for the topic i am working on, then i write things down like settings, and goals, then it just branches out into loads of writing paragraphs and doodling charts.

I’ve been thinking about how to respond to this post for 5 mins now…

You just write.

Write garbage.

Write a fan fiction

Read a shitt book and re-write the shitty plot.

Its a momentum thing for me. I’ll write absolute ass and then re-write it until its what I want.

I often ask an LLM to write the thing I want, get so fucking mad that they wrote AI Slop and then write good shit. That’s a good trick IMO.

I usually overcome this by reading something new. I’ve often found that hearing a new idea will dislodge ideas of my own.

I’ve often told students: Don’t try to be creative in a vacuum.

That doesn’t really sound like writers block, it sounds like writer apathy.

There have been countless writings for thousands of years, ever since humans learned to write. That’s no reason not to write something.

Imagine if Plato or Shakespeare or James Joyce thought to themselves, “Ah, why bother? There’s already so much shit out there…“

First of all, I want to make sure we have the same definition of writers block:

Inability to write because,

• Don’t know how to start
• Don’t know how to continue something already started
• Lack of motivation

I’ve found that something that works is to force a start. Pick a word, any word, write it, and then figure out a sentence. The sentence may not connect to anything, but that’s not important. Try to expand the sentence into a paragraph. Then a scene. I find that scene building is a great way to get started, even if the scene itself is of questionable usefulness or quality.

Don’t sorry of it’s poorly written. Embrace the potential for cringe. The important part is that you’re writing. Think of it like warmup similar to the physical equivalents athletes do beforehand.

How long to do this is all up to you. It may distract you from what you originally intended to write and become its own thing, or it might accidentally fit reasonably well with some unfinished work you have already saved. Either way, once you feel that creativity is properly flowing again, you can try to transition into writing what you intended to. You you can let the warmup-writeup become its own project (one of my better stories started as a warmup), or otherwise decide later what you’re gonna use it for (if anything).

It’s hard to force motivation, but the above will at least (hopefully) get you into the right headspace.

And then you write the rest of the owl.

First, write for yourself.

Not what the trends or market may be pointing to or wanting but what you would like or want to read yourself.

Second, just write.

Does not matter when, how, where… Just write. Let the words flow, sentences build, paragraphs form.

Third, write with no concern if it makes sense.

Our uncouncious mind has a voice of itself. Let it out. Most times, what is holding us back is something underneath the surface needing to get out.

Fourth, write now, read later.

Put it out now but allow yourself time to let whatever came out to cool and only then go read it again. It may not make it any further, it may be worthy of picking it further. Regardless, it will remember you of how were when it took form. Learn from it.

Fifth, write what you live in your mind.

We may be able to take someone on a journey with what we write but we are the only ones that know the minute details behind the veil and where all the threads left unravelled lead. We know the worlds we visit in a way no one will. Enjoy that privilege.

Sixth, write down a map of your stories.

Put down a framewire of what your work is supposed to grow into. Set the guidelines for yourself, how many chapters there will be, small ideas to insert into the story. And review it as the story build and evolves.

Seventh, write organically.

No story is set in stone, no matter how cristalized it may be in our mind. A sentence may throw the flow of the story in a previously unseen direction, a line of dialogue create entirely new branchings. Allow the story to tell itself, to grow, expand and evolve. Don’t try to hold it to a fixed, predetermined form or path.

Eighth, and final, ignore what others tell or advise you.

They know nothing, of you, your work, your mind. Devise a science of one. Explore your mind, discover what makes it work optimally, how to tune in, at will, into that specific mindset. And, above all else, be a little bit delusional: you are the best writer on the planet and what you write no one else can.

Think about all the absolutely terrible writing that’s out there. Writing that people are reading because they feel like they’ve read everything else in their fetish genre already.

You can do better than that! Surely!

It’s so bad that people are resorting to using AI to write (awful) stories for them. These stories don’t make any sense yet people read them anyway. Why? Because they ran out of the other stuff they like in their little fetish genre.

Tell your story! I’m positive someone will be interested in it.

I recently wrote a novel for a writing contest: https://www.honeyfeed.fm/novels/22194

Many people thought it was funny and entertaining but most stopped reading after the second or third chapter. The people that made it all the way to the end expressed an attitude like, “Finally! A story that’s actually unique!” And that’s exactly why I wrote it! Because I’m sick of “the same old shit” (in the isekai genre) 🤣

Write your story for you and be satisfied 👍

Sometimes challenging yourself works for me. Look up a writing exercise e.g.: Write a text without using pronouns. Set your clock to 10 minutes amd write whatever comes to mind. No right or wrong.