Writer's Block and Artist's Block

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Experiencing and Coping with Artist's Block
Overcoming Artist's Block
Part 1
How many times does an artist stare down at that blank piece of paper thinking "What on earth do I paint - Where do I put my first mark?" More often than you would imagine! It happens to all creative people actually, from visual artists, designers, poets, through to musicians and writers.
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Overcoming Artist's Block
Part 1

Overcoming Artist's Block
Part 2
Once you are ready to start working again you will know it instinctively. All artists go through periods of 'creative block' - it's normal, but after one such episode there are ways of stimulating ideas and getting the creative juices flowing again.
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Overcoming Artist's Block
Part 2

The Art of Overcoming Creative Block
How many times throughout an artist's career do thoughts of self-doubt crop up? If you're like most of us, you struggle from time to time with Creative Block - that disheartening, sinking feeling that no matter what you do, you couldn't come up with a creative idea to save your life.
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The Art of Overcoming Creative Block

Permission To Be An Artist -- Granted
Consent signifies agreement, validation that what you're doing meets with specific expectations, criteria and guidelines. It sounds solemn and like someone has faith in you. Sanction is an even more formal declaration of acceptance and faith.
Being a creative person sometimes takes inner permission
Permission To Be An Artist

Jump-starting Your Creativity Again
Recharge Your Creative Batteries
Is your mind as blank as the sheet of paper in front of you? If your creative batteries are drained, here are some techniques to get the energy flowing again.
Find suggestions to get your creativity going again
Recharge Your Creative Batteries

Make Your Brain Your Slave
If procrastination has you in its grip, try bribing your brain. Promise yourself if you work for just 15 minutes, you can turn your attention to something less stressful or more pleasurable. Because of your brain's Drive for Closure, once you start, your brain will push you toward completion.
Overcoming procrastination and creative block
Make Your Brain Your Slave

From Ouch to Outstanding
Julia Cameron writes about a concept called "Creative Wounding" " where the creative juices are literally knocked out of us because of the pain that may come as a result of criticism from either ourselves or from others. In my latest creative adventure onto the stage, I have learned this on an even deeper level.
Coping with criticism, rejection and
creative block in real life
From Ouch to Outstanding

Positive attitudes promote creativity
Creativity is enhanced by positive attitudes and a supportive mindset. Emotions like gratitude and joy are known to boost the development and expression of creative ability. Most of all, inner permission to be an artist, helps in living a satisfying creative life.
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Positive Attitudes and Creativity

Freewriting
Freewriting is a release from the prison of rules. It allows the fastest and deepest improvements to a writer's creative process. Freewriting shows writers how to overcome past resistance challenges. Either in writing, control, or other fears. It returns the power of free thought. It also renews the energy flow with the universal laws of attraction.
When you need to unblock and let your writing happen
Freewriting
A Strategy That Will Bring Your Writing To Life

Beat the Block with a Journal
I hate to admit it, but the truth is -- I was wrong. A journal is not a waste of a writer's time. It's a learning process. When a computer professional sits down to learn a new programming language, he's not wasting his time. He's preparing himself for situations in which his programming skills could come in handy.
When you need to unblock and let your writing happen
Beat the Block with a Journal

Writer's Block Un-blocked
Beyond the promise of a wide audience, one thing that's undoubtedly freed us to start expressing ourselves in writing with such exuberance is the relaxed ambiance on the Internet. There's no grammar fascist standing guard over what's written. The thoughts flow freely, unimpeded by intimidation over the proper use of the semi-colon, or the extra step of having to look up "connoisseur" in a dictionary. It was always a problem to those of us English majors way back when - how do you look up the word when you don't know how to spell it? Well, now a close approximation is good enough for spell check or askjeeves. Ah, the thrill of it all.
When you need to unblock and let your writing happen
Writer's Block Un-blocked

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