{"id":7230,"date":"2016-01-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediashower.com\/blog\/?p=7230"},"modified":"2016-01-12T22:01:33","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T22:01:33","slug":"5-tips-to-bury-the-myth-of-writers-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediashower.com\/blog\/5-tips-to-bury-the-myth-of-writers-block\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tips to Bury the Myth of Writer’s Block"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hearing writers talk about their struggles with writer’s block has always been a mystifying experience. Paying the bills as a professional freelance writer – especially one for the web – often means producing around 2,000 pieces of content per year.<\/p>\n

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Your ‘keys’ to beating writer’s block. Credit: Sarah Scicluna, Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n

At $25 to $30 per blog post, that would earn you between $50, and $60,000 annually, which is close to the $55,940 median reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Want to earn more? You’ll probably have to produce more.<\/p>\n

To call on one of the great Internet memes of our time, “ain’t nobody got time” for writer’s block at that pace.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, writer’s block is a fictitious problem – one created in the writer’s imagination and something he or she can overcome with these easy tips.<\/p>\n

Tip 1: Get on a Media Diet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is an old adage that great writers are first great readers. This is a point that the Scottish writer A.L. Kennedy brought home in a recent “rules of writing”<\/a> piece for the Guardian.<\/p>\n

“Read,” Kennedy said. “As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and \u00adirritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won’t need to take notes.”<\/p>\n

If you’re a content marketer looking for ideas, this advice can easily be translated into idea generation.<\/p>\n

Find great news sites and blogs that command your interest and read as much as you can. But don’t stop there.<\/p>\n

Listen to great podcasts in your subject area. Follow influencers on YouTube. Consume video. Every great piece – whether text-based or audio and video – can awaken your unique viewpoint and lead to great original content.<\/p>\n

Tip 2: Fill the Gaps.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Go to the Amazon website and search Books. Do a few keyword searches in your interest area. Filter by bestsellers. From there, go into the product pages of each book and home in on two- and three-star reviews.<\/p>\n