Module 9: Making Time to Write and Avoiding Writer’s Block

  Making Time to Write and Avoiding Writer’s Block

Objectives

In this module learners will

  • identify techniques you use to avoid writing,
  • commit to strategies to overcome writer’s block; and
  • complete a plan to make time in your life to write.

Lectures

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Writing the Manuscript (6:28 min)

Experienced Authors

Time Management (3:27 min)

 

Writer's Block (1:57 min)

(2:25 min)

Activities

  • Download Activity Log Workbook
    • Interview: Strategies (Page 12)
      • Interview an experienced author and discuss strategies he/she used to overcome writer's block. Also discuss how the author finds time in his/her busy life to write.
    • Timeline (Page 12)
      • Create a timeline for the writing of your article.
    • Personal Appointments (Page 12)
      • Place appointments with yourself in your calendar to write.
  • Download Reflection Assignment
    • Writer's Block: (Page 11)
      • Describe your common writer's blocks. Explain strategies you will use to overcome them. Also, decide the best time of day for you to write and the best place for you to write.

Readings and Resources

Morton, P. (2000). Challenging writer’s block: How experienced authors make time to write. Nurse Author and Editor, 10(2), 1-3.