Serious Time #66 Getting Out of Writers Block

The article focuses on different types of writers block and ways to overcome it. The first way they mention is procrastination, this one isn't really writers block at all. The only way to overcome this one is to sit down and focus, maybe set a due date for your self as well. The second one they mention is not fully committing to your idea, this makes it so your going from one idea to the next. They say to remember that it's not a great idea that makes the writing good but the execution for it, so commit and then see it through to the end. The third they bring up is when you are out of ideas and cant think of anymore. They say to fix this idea you should write about something else, anything else, to get your mind going, it's like a warm up. The last type of writers block that they mention is critiquing everything you write, thinking that what you are writing isn't good enough. The only way to overcome this one is to turn our inner critic off, you need to actually get stuff on the page before you critique it. When your done writing just simply critique from there. They then end the article on a comical note showing a little "comic strip" of a guy getting over procrastination and such.

This article was pretty good. It managed to show the problems and how to solve them instead of just talking about them. I especially found this helpful as I hit a lot of these when writing and these are all great ways to over come them. There isn't anything I really dislike about the article except the part at the end I guess. The article was also very straight forward as well so I have no questions. This article can be referred to both types of Digital Media. Overall great article.