Jumpstarting creativity

In 2009 -- in the very early days of this site --I wrote a post that was titled Writer's Block: It's a Myth. It was a terrific lesson for me about choosing an accurate headline for my posts. See, I chose a sensational title  to grab people's attention and generate links (this was before the site switched to a subscription model). And the headline did just what it was intended to do. It stirred up excitement -- much of which was in the form of anger from people who had experienced serious problems advancing their writing that felt very real and un-mythlike to them.

The content of the post, however, holds a very good thought to keep in mind for those times that you experience writer's block:

• Ideas aren't as important as what you do with the ideas
• Often, what we call "writer's block" is more accurately defined as a lack of confidence in your ability to execute the idea in front of you well.

It's worth a read, if you haven't yet. But I'd like to move past identifying the problem and push forward to sharing some strategies to getting your creativity flowing during those times when it's just not happening naturally...