Any of you professional writers have any tricks for just resetting your mind?
I have two that might work for you--
1) Watch the stupidest funniest guilty pleasure you have. Turn your brain right off. No analyzing what you're watching. No getting scared or angry. Just sit there with your brain off having a good laugh. Then turn your brain back on, rebooting it from a happy place, and give writing another try.
2) Write as far from your own voice as you can get. Write like it's Talk Like a Pirate Day. Write like you're an Elizabethan playwright working on a play. Whatever gets you faaar away from your own voice. Push yourself away from it and your brain might be happy to get back to writing in your own voice.
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Date: 2021-01-27 06:08 pm (UTC)I have two that might work for you--
1) Watch the stupidest funniest guilty pleasure you have. Turn your brain right off. No analyzing what you're watching. No getting scared or angry. Just sit there with your brain off having a good laugh. Then turn your brain back on, rebooting it from a happy place, and give writing another try.
2) Write as far from your own voice as you can get. Write like it's Talk Like a Pirate Day. Write like you're an Elizabethan playwright working on a play. Whatever gets you faaar away from your own voice. Push yourself away from it and your brain might be happy to get back to writing in your own voice.