The best way to avoid writer’s block is to prepare for coming back to your writing before you stop writing.
What this looks like in practice is that you pause writing on your report or article about five minutes before you have to move onto your next task, and write one or two sentences – or bullet points – on your current thinking or what you plan to write next. Writing prompts that can be helpful here include:
- I want to elaborate on X…
- I’ve made a bit of leap here, the connection is…
- I can move onto writing about X…
We often have to stop writing to move onto a time-sensitive task but, even if this isn’t the case, the preparation is the same. Stop writing – perhaps when you’re still in full flow but before you have to – and write one or two sentences or bullet points of where you’re up to with your writing, and what you plan to write next.
Making notes before you stop writing means that rather than have to read through your entire piece of writing before you can continue to write, your sentences or bullet points act as a shortcut back to your thinking and your content.
It looks simple because it is simple, by using this note-making approach you’ll notice a shift in the speed with which you are able to reconnect with your writing the next time you come to it.
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