Member-only story
Do This One Simple Exercise Every Day to Eliminate the Agony of Writer’s Block Forever
Simple but effective.
Even the cavemen probably had writer’s block. When it came to painting on cave walls, they just stared at the blank stone wall, shrugged, and sighed.
The Internet wasn’t around to save them with stories of wooly mammoths and how-to guides on how to track, kill them, and post about it on rock walls for claps.
Tim Denning said this the other day on X. He said the average person has 20 stories per year. They need to document them to get stories.
Twenty events seem too low for a writer who writes more than twice a month.
Eve Arnold has a method where you pick out an event that stood out to you during your 9–5 job.
Sounds like a solid plan but my exercise to remove writer’s block is even easier.
To beat writer’s block, look at how your day starts when you wake up until you go to bed. It takes Tim and Eve’s ideas and makes them and puts them on steroids.
Let’s do the exercise for the simple act of waking up.
