The summer has a way of enhancing happiness in people.
I would relate to that more since I moved to Sweden. It just seems to be a totally different country during these long sunny days.
The past few months I have just finished around 700 poems that I’ve narrowed down to a hundred for my new book. I’d usually stop there as I’m often creatively exhausted after getting out so many words and emotions on paper. Yet there is something about the summer that just brings out the creativity.
I guess that it’s easier to be inspired when you are not just confined to the indoors. No matter where you live there are always places to see and go that you may not have been to before, or visited in a while.
So far this summer I have spent more time than before visiting new places to get some inspiration for my work. That being said it’s not easy. Writers are often guilty of lacking in enthusiasm or passion when it comes top putting effort into their work. I would rather wait for the inspiration to come and write when the emotions are flowing than not write at all.
In my life I have read many autobiographies of writers and I always read back to see how they coped when they dealt with writers block. Of course, not everyone is the same and, like writing a book, we all have our different and unique approaches when it come to overcoming these boundaries.
Even writing something trivial is beneficial. The more you write the more it flows, regardless of content. It could be a blog entry, handwritten diary, post on a forum or something else.
I often get asked, ”What is the best way to overcome writers block?” My simple answer is that you just have to keep on writing. If the world outside and the beauty you see are not inspiration enough, then what is?
