Reboot Your Internal Writing Machine in 5 Grueling Steps
Writing brain has the blue screen of death? Try these ridiculously difficult fixes!
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You haven’t written in days? Read 50 serious how-to articles? Haven’t done anything? That’s okay! You just need a reboot!
Grab a cup of coffee (or liquor) and let’s figure out how to reboot your internal writing machine. Start by turning it off and on again. Yes, really. The human equivalent of power cycling is a nap.
Okay. You napped? Great!
Now…
1. Buy a typewriter!
Bonus points if it’s vintage and costs as much as your rent. Look at that sexy beast — it’s just overflowing with historic value and authorly charm. Imagine, maybe a famous (or brilliant but obscure) writer wrote upon it in the past. Who knows who might’ve had it before you.
So buy a typewriter! And type away! Guaranteed to keep you motivated and entertained for approximately 3 days.
2. Go to your favorite ridiculously expensive coffee shop to write… and end up not writing a word!
You did it. You put on pants. You got out of your tiny, cluttered apartment. Some would say we deserve rewards just for that, right? So go to your favorite coffee shop and get the most expensive latte you possibly can! Get a table in that happy, chill environment!
Grab your pen or your laptop… try to write… and don’t write a damn word because you’re sad and can’t focus. Good job.
3. Change up your writing routine — bonus points if you never actually get around to writing!
How about starting a gym membership? How about going to the gym during the time that you used to write because you want to get healthy because the productivity gurus told you how much healthier and energetic you’ll feel once you start exercising (and your editor told you to stop writing in run-on sentences)?
Great idea! What a wonderful routine change! You’re guaranteed to always be too busy to write.
