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Do you have writers block? Are you staring at that piece of paper, pen in hand, but nothing is getting written down? Or sitting by your computer all ready to type up a storm, yet your brain isn’t giving you the words you’re searching for?

Frustration could be the best way to describe this time in a writer’s life. One where something just isn’t getting to the right places. Your hands and brain aren’t working together anymore or something. How about setting up a way that you can deal with this before it happens?

Many people will tell you that each day you need to write down something. Spend at least fifteen minutes where you sit and write it won’t need to make sense. But as long as you do this, writing should always come to you when it’s needed.

At times it just may do you a bit of good to take a little time away from the computer in order to get rejuvenated. How you do that, well do them that you find fun and relaxing, something that will have your problems not at the forefront of your mind.

Listen to music, read, watch a movie, go out and head to the beach. It won’t matter but just get away from sitting and staring as nothing comes to you. It will only frustrate you more than what you already are at this point.

Many writers will have this happen through the years they write. There is nothing wrong with you, and nothing that a doctor will be able to help out with. Instead it is going to be all you who will either find the muse again, or sit around with nothing to do.

Finally, one day you will wake up and the words will be there again. It may be something completely different from what you’ve been working on, but enjoy it all the same.

Tom Binns is an expert in creativity coaching from his website, The Creativity Practice