JUST GIVE UP, YOU CAN’T WRITE WELL ENOUGH TO GET PUBLISHED! Did that get your attention? It gets mine each time I face writer’s doubt when rejected either through email or get the SILENT treatment we all just love waiting for regarding my latest novel attempt. And to be honest, that give up feeling is strong and succeeds for a while…at first. It takes a few battles in the war before you realize that not every agent has the time to reply to the hundreds of people wanting to get their book signed.

But you get over it. You just have to learn to get over it quickly. What are some ways to do that?

Write Differently: I write novels so instead I write

Poetry

Haiku

Flash Fiction

Blog Articles

        Rewrite Someone Else’s Stuff

(Take your favorite book or almost favorite

and do one of the following)

                   Change the setting and time of the book.

     Turn it into a Super Hero comic.

                          Flip the leads.

  Make the good guy a bad guy.

                 Turn the Horror story into a Romance.

Take a World Event and Change the Characters or Location

Change the Leaders into TV show or Cartoon characters and write how they might react in the same situation as the real leaders involved.

Make the World Event happen on an alien World or on a huge space station.

Make the Leaders have split personalities that fight themselves to control what happens.

After a few experiences you learn to immediately go to something to write after a rejection, doubt, or writer’s block. It just comes with the territory. But even then there will be times that it gets to you. Just remember the only way you don’t win is if you give up.

But while you doubt or get down about your project just keep writing something creative. The more you write the better you get. I know that’s old advice but it really is true. I use Flash Fiction a lot as my go to when I just can’t get going on a novel and it really trains me to be a better writer. I scale down a scene to the bare bones while still relaying it to the reader. That’s what you want to do in your regular writing anyway.

The above are just a few of my thoughts on how to overcome those moments, what are some of your ideas?

You may be interested in 3 Writing Tips: To Know When to Stop Writing…for the day…and how.

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