How Do You End Writer’s Block?

I will confess — and please don’t hate me for this — I never get writer’s block. Ever. 

That does not mean everything I write is genius or even good, but the ideas just flood me. I can’t write fast enough, as I fail to keep pace with my ability to generate ideas.  

I have known from a young age that I was gifted with a creative way of thinking but it was only confirmed when I took an IQ test as a high school senior with an organization called Johnson O’ Connor. My brain floods me with analysis, thoughts, what-if scenarios, and exercises in logic. I question everything and have an unending curiosity. Nothing fully satiates my wandering mind. 

They said my level of ideation was high. I have an ability to generate ideas quickly that was off the testing charts. I was in the 100 percentile. I have always been eager for input— exposure to things, events, or people that can inspire fresh thoughts. My instant reaction to something is to try to consume it from all sides and angles.  

From ideas, comes the act of writing — both to convey something but also to workshop something as well. I question more readily than I can make a declaration about anything.   

So, what is the secret to resolving your writer’s block?  

Everyone is different, but I would say to try any and all of these methods until you fix your brain constipation:  

1. Do whatever you have done in the past that worked to free your mind up for writing. In other words, look at past solutions as your playbook for today.  

2. Try to write your way out of it, meaning write about anything, as an exercise, just to get you going again. Even try different forms — write a diary journal, letter-to-the-editor, a poem, or a love letter.  

3. Take a change of scenery. New surroundings can instill new thoughts. 

4. Take a break. Just walk away from your desk and forget about whatever you were trying to write. Remove all pressures and demands to write and instead, do something else. 

5. Change your diet, sleep pattern, or level of exercise. Play a sport or partake in a competition. Jumpstart your brain power with a realignment of your physical state. 

6. Abuse your addiction — or go sober. I don’t do drugs and only drink socially. I haven’t been drunk in many years. But if lighting up, popping a pill, or self-medicating with an intoxicant relaxes you, makes you feel good, or puts you in a creative frame of mind, who am I to say no? Or maybe you party too much and your life is a shit wreck? Time to go cold turkey and clean your act up. 

7. Consume a book, movie, play, ballet, concert, comedy club, museum, poetry reading, or art show, or attend a conference or convention. Being around the arts and creative culture may stir some ideas or evoke strong feelings. 

&. Confront what blocks you. Think hard as to why you are not inspired to write and why you are feeling intellectually stunted. Go head-to-head with the truth.  

9. Debate someone about a political or philosophical issue, something to get your juices flowing again.  An honest intellectual exchange of ideas and opinions is a healthy prelude to writing.  

19. Get into an argument or delve into a drama with someone. Unburden your stress by yelling at someone. Embrace some road rage— but don’t risk your life in the process.  

11. Maybe you just need to screw the writer’s block out of you. Find someone to allow you to just release.  

12. Don’t overthink or seek perfection as a writer. Just unload your head and heart and then sort out the seashells from the seaweed.  

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About Brian Feinblum

This award-winning blog has generated over 5,600,000 page views. With 5,500+ posts over the past 14 years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs  by BookBaby  http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.”  Copyright 2026.

 

For the past three decades, Brian Feinblum has helped thousands of authors. He formed his own book publicity firm in 2020. Prior to that, for 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and as the director of publicity at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler.

 

His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/whats-needed-to-promote-a-book-successfully). He was recently interviewed by the IBPA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0BhO9m8jbs

 

He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, Morgan James Publishing, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. He served as a judge for the 2024 IBPA Book Awards.

 

His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.

 

Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog.

 

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