How to break through Writer’s Block for Visionary Writers...

In the last article, we explored Why Visionary Writers get Writer’s Block. If you haven’t read that yet, you can read it here.

In this post, we’ll be exploring what you can do if you are a Visionary Writer who wants to break through Writer’s Block.

The first, and most obvious, solution is to Write. In my experience, Not-Writing is the biggest creativity-killer and energy-drain that there is. It’s writing – even when I’m not feeling inspired or ready – that reignites my creativity and connects me with my inspiration and brings me back into alignment with my Soul’s Highest Vision, every time. 

Waiting to feel inspired before we start writing is what we’ve been taught to do; but have you ever considered that we might be approaching things backwards? Isn’t it when we start writing that we get the stuck energy moving and find our inspiration and suddenly feel so much more alive?!

For me, writing is a practice and a process. It’s a way of moving energy from out of your body and your energy field onto the page to create space for new energy to flow. It’s a way of working through your ideas in tangible, material form, as they are arising and taking shape – rather than trying to figure out all the answers and the end-goals first, and then trying to get everything down exactly as you imagined it. 

That’s like trying to start our journey at the destination. Or trying to know what we are going to say before the words come out of our mouths. How many times have you had that experience of the words you’ve carefully considered just slipping away from you when it comes time to speak them out loud or write them down? 

Writing is the practice and the process of exploring ideas that are alive and moving and taking shape and forming in real time, not simply the product of having figured everything out in advance and then magically got it all down onto the page.

Writing is a practical, reliable and regular invitation to actively participate in co-creating the world that we live in. 

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As a Visionary Writer or Creative, you are here on Earth to actively participate in collective co-creation. It’s time to unlearn a lot of our previously held beliefs about ourselves and our planet. Every action you take has the power to change the world. When you write, you step into your own innate co-creative power as an active participant in the Earth’s evolution. It’s what you are called to do. And if you’re not doing it, you feel it. 

Writing puts you in the centre of your own creative power, sovereignty and authenticity. It’s how you clear out old energy, create space for new inspiration, and learn to let go and trust your own inner wisdom. 

But, how do you do it when you are right stuck in the middle of Writer’s Block?

If you are a Visionary Writer and you know you want to (need to) write, but your words are getting stuck before they get onto the page, you can subscribe to Writing & Thriving, or get the book, to find out how to break this cycle and Find Your Visionary Writing Voice. 

Sally-Shakti Willow

Writing my PhD in Utopian Poetics showed me what it means to be a writer. I wrote four books of poetry and a 50,000 word thesis, and I started journaling as a way to ground and heal myself.

While I was studying, I also wrote and maintained the Contemporary Small Press website, writing regular reviews of new fiction and poetry published by small presses. I was on the judging panel for the 2018 Republic of Consciousness Prize for literary fiction from the small presses. So I was reading a lot of great writing too. And I co-developed and taught a series of workshops called WELLBEING WHILE WRITING for doctoral researchers at the University of Westminster.

WELLBEING WHILE WRITING used practical techniques from Creative Writing pedagogy to support PhD students of all disciplines with the work of WRITING their thesis. I also used my knowledge and experience of yoga and meditation to provide MOVING & BREATHING FOR WELLBEING workshops to graduate students at the University.

I’ve been teaching English since 2004 and I’ve been teaching Creative Writing at the University of Westminster since 2017.

https://www.writingthriving.com
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