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BUST WRITER’S BLOCK

FOREVER

7 Game-Changing Ways for Writers, Authors, to Kiss Writer’s Block Goodbye and Unleash Creative Inspiration

[Bonus Chapter] ChatGPT, Creative Catalyst

BY

CARYL WESTMORE

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©COPYRIGHT 2023 CARYL Westmore

Published by Break Free Fast Publishing

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ISBN Paperback 978-1-7393010-3-3

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DISCLAIMER

This book offers healing and self-improvement information and is designed for educational purposes only. You should not rely on this information as a substitute for, nor does it replace professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. If you have any concerns or questions about your health, mental, emotional, or physical, you should consult with a physician or other healthcare professional. Do not disregard, avoid, or delay obtaining medical or health-related advice from your healthcare professional because of something you may have read here. The use of any information provided in this book is solely at your own risk.

Developments in research may impact the advice that appears here. No assurances can be given that the information contained in this book will always include the most relevant findings of developments with respect to the particular material.

DEDICATION

This book is dedicated with all my love to the bright stars in my life

Nick Westmore, Lorian Barrett, Guy Morgan

May you continue to shine your brightest

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART 1:

FOUNDATIONS

CHAPTER ONE:

Introduction—What Is Writer’s Block?

CHAPTER TWO:

Who Am I? Why This Book?

CHAPTER THREE:

Busting Myths

CHAPTER FOUR:

Beliefs and Why They Matter

PAUSE AND REFLECT ON PART 1

PART 2:

THE QUEST TO BUST WRITER’S BLOCK

CHAPTER FIVE:

The Work: Question Your Beliefs

CHAPTER SIX:

Havening: Self-Sooth Your Anxiety

CHAPTER SEVEN:

The Journey: Banish Your Silent Saboteurs

CHAPTER EIGHT:

EFT Tapping: Kiss Writer’s Block Goodbye

CHAPTER NINE:

Logosynthesis: Take Back Your Power

CHAPTER TEN:

The Alter Ego: Refashion Your Identity, Re-Write Your Story

CHAPTER ELEVEN:

Internal Family Systems: Heal Blocked Parts

CHAPTER TWELVE: [BONUS] ChatGPT:

Creative Catalyst, Collaborator

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:

Conclusion

PAUSE AND REFLECT ON YOUR NEXT STEPS

Quick Favor

Gratitude

Who Is Caryl Westmore?

PART 1 FOUNDATIONS

CHAPTER ONE

Introduction—What Is Writer’s Block?

Does this sound familiar ?

When you feel blocked as a writer you want to:

• Jump ship

• Give up

• Whip yourself into a frenzy to beat a deadline

• Beat up on yourself for losing your mojo

Dr. Dennis Palumbo, a former Hollywood screenwriter, novelist of a crime thriller series—and renowned psychotherapist—says you are not alone. His wisdom comes from his own writing life and counseling thousands of blocked writers he has worked with therapeutically.

In his book Writing from the Inside Out, his biggest piece of advice is to have compassion and approach creative inner blocks in writing and life not as a brick wall but as something you can transform.

I know only too well the sleepless nights, emotional and intellectual fatigue, insidious undermining of creative confidence of writing, he says.

We have to learn to co-exist with our anxieties and fear without seeing ourselves as defective.

What is Writer’s Block?

Addiction, depression, even suicide. These are ways writers, artists, and creatives have addressed their inner demons, including writer’s block and burnout.

Influential writers, such as Charles Bukowski and Stephen King, have written about their writer’s block and the steps they’ve taken to beat it.

While writing his epic plague novel The Stand, Stephen King hit a wall of writer’s block, and getting around it led to a deadly plot twist which he describes in his book On Writing.

Ernest Hemingway talked about bleeding at the typewriter.

American novelist Ann Lamott whose book Bird by Bird, Instructions on Writing and Life, gave many writers a way to conquer inner resistance, wrote:

There are few experiences as depressing as that anxious barren state known as writer’s block, where you sit staring at your blank page like a cadaver, feeling your mind congeal, feeling your talent run down your leg and into your sock.

Writer’s block is a frustrating and challenging state of creative paralysis, characterized by a lack of inspiration, motivation, and the ability to effectively express oneself through writing.

The writer sits down and faces a blinking cursor, feeling bereft of creative inspiration because the words don’t flow.

This is also called blank page syndrome. As prolific novelist Jodi Picoult says: You can’t edit a blank page.

Writer’s block can manifest in different ways for different individuals. Some may experience a temporary loss of creativity and struggle to start a new project, while others may face difficulties in completing an ongoing piece of writing. It can last for a brief period or persist for an extended duration, causing significant frustration and affecting a writer’s confidence and productivity.

Let me tell you the shocking case of Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker who had writer’s block for thirty years!

His biographer, Thomas Kunkel, describes this in Man in Profile, Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker (Random House, 2015). Mitchell was an acclaimed award-winning journalist on the magazine from 1930 to 1964.

But though co-workers watched him arrive at The New Yorker for the next thirty years, close the door of his office to work, heard the sound of typing inside—and even lunched with him, he simply produced nothing publishable, while still collecting his paycheck at the end of every month.

For thirty unbelievable, shocking years!

What exactly was Joseph Mitchell doing all those years at The New Yorker?

Kunkel, his biographer, gives us an insight into what happens with