POEMS
Siren
Loss
Agathisms
Marilyn
PERSONAL ESSAYS
For Ages Three and Up Bloody Thoughts Fingerlings
FORMAL ESSAYS
The Last Maria Clara The Poem She Wrote
PUBLISHED WORKS
Everything That Goes With IT
Serving Suggestion
- Do the doodle. Take a long look at what you have just written, and try to connect the words and phrases which seem to form a logical connection. You can do this by encircling the words with a pen or a colored pencil, adding notes as you go along. Draw if you feel like drawing.
- Your article should start to take on a more definite shape at this point. You are now trying to arrange your thoughts into clusters to achieve some sense of organization in the way you present your ideas. If you still can't find the right term, doodle. You don't have to be the artsy type, stick figures will do. Draw what you have in mind. Again, the objective of this activity is not to make a Da Vinci out of you; drawing and doodling is only aimed at facilitating the free flow of thoughts into your writing.
- 4. Let out a devilish laugh-BWAHAHAHAHA!!! You're almost there! By this time your brain bits should be recollecting and regenerating already.
- Look over what you have written so far. If you feel like it's still a bit off, try listing down your main points and work from there. Sometimes, all it takes to make everything fall into place is to rearrange the paragraphs. Perhaps something you appropriated in the middle of the article should have gone to the earlier part.
- And now, the garnishing. Add the finishing touch to your masterpiece: the title! Who says titles should go first before anything else? If you're used to inventing titles before you start writing, perhaps it's about time to do the opposite. Sometimes you tend to get too fixated on the way your title sounds, so much so that the rest of the article is forced to go around it even if it doesn't really fit.
- For a change, try lifting a phrase from the body of your write-up and plug it in the title.
Still banging your head on the wall? Come on, it can't be that bad. Of course it takes a while before you get the hang of it again. Writing, I mean. Don't lose your head if you feel like you no longer write as well as you used to�
Now, one last tip: If all else fails and even the tips on this guide don't work on you, try writing another super-simplified step-by-step self-help kit on how to chop off the writer's block like this one. That should definitely do it.
arrange your thoughts into clusters to achieve some sense of organization in the way you present your ideas
Sometimes, all it takes to make everything fall into place is to rearrange the paragraphs
lift a phrase from the body use it as a title