Practice Makes Perfect

Have you ever had your writer’s creativity energy flowing only to get to your keyboard or paper and find the ideas have gone?  There are ways to overcome this type of writer’s block, procrastination, laziness, or fear of writing something that is not good enough. Whatever you want to call it, don’t give up.  You just need to be disciplined enough to sit in front of that blank page or screen and work with what you have.

 

Try to mix and match stories as a way to work through the writer’s block.   Take David and Goliath and let them met Peter on the road going to tell others about Christ.  Or take two of your favorite authors and mix their stories together.  How do you think that would turn out?  Writing prompts such as this help to give ideas to get that writer’s creativity flowing.  Two different stories coming together make for an interesting tell. 

 

How about taking the story of Deborah and turning it into a sci-fi adventure with the battle raging in outer space! What an idea.  Do you think that would help get the juices flowing?

 

Then there is always asking the question “what if.”  Suppose that Joseph had been the one to get the message about the birth of Jesus first, instead of Mary.  What if the Jewish nation had been faithful all these years, instead of being taken captive by the two different nations?  What if Babylon had not been a great nation?  What if the Assyrian had never come to power?  Where would our world be today? These would make great stories if you could only work out the detail. What if the story of one of your favorite authors ending changed to what you would like to have read, the boy doesn’t get the girl in the end, the problem doesn’t work or the protagonist and antagonist change places. 

 

Practice makes perfect. Let the juices flow with ideas such as this and writer’s block will soon be a thing of the past.  Inspiration for a new story idea is just a daydream away. You will have so many stories ideas, writing will not be a problem.  You will not be without a story in the works at all time.   So put your blinder’s on and stay focus with what you have to say. 

 copyright(C) 2016 Donna Germany