Writer’s Block
Have You Ever Suffered from Writer’s Block? Well who hasn’t.
They that every author or creative person is in some ways a dual personality one the inner critic and the other natural child or muse. We can be inspired by the muse and sometimes blocked by the inner critic. Michael Ray, who teaches creativity at Stanford University and written many books on this. He calls it the inner critic the Voice of Judgment (VOJ). This is the aspect of our psyche that prevents us from seeing and experiencing all the possibilities in our lives. Check out my W.I.S.H. course to find your Muse and deal with the Nay-Sayer.
The Inner Critic is the Personification of Our Self-Consciousness
It can show up before or after an intense period of writing or, often when we begin a project. While there is a role for the Inner Critic later in the editing stage, it needs to be controlled in the beginning stages of writing or it will try to control us. Unless we have a plan to deal with it, what we find is that creativity can be stifled when we lack a plan to help us deal with this aspect of the psyche.
It is Helpful to Learn How to Dialogue with Our Voice of Judgement
There is a way to have it out with the antagonist to creativity, so to speak to it, to try and understand it so we can put it to work for us and not against us, to engage the naysayer. Instead of allowing our obstacles to block us, we must learn to understand what the VOJ might be trying to teach us,. It may be trying to protect orrying to help us in some way. In so doing we can then turn it into an ally. To begin with try doing some journaling with your voice of judgment. When you feel blocked, drop into the feeling and write what comes to you. You can get in dialogue with the part of you that represents the voice of judgment… ask what do you want? The write what comes to you. You will probably be surprised.
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