WRITERS BLOCK: Even Hemingway got stuck sometimes. How he got UNSTUCK, (and how YOU can)

Dan Alatorre AUTHOR

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from A Moveable Feast

 

Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going…

 

“Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”

 

So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say.

 

…I found that I could cut that scrollwork or ornament out and throw it away and start with the first true simple declarative sentence I had written.

23 thoughts on “WRITERS BLOCK: Even Hemingway got stuck sometimes. How he got UNSTUCK, (and how YOU can)”

  3. I’ve been stuck before, many times. For me it doesn’t help to focus on it. I usually need to get away from my story, go out,go somewhere for a walk or do something new, different, basically forget about the story – next day I’m typing like crazy 😀

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