Two Sylvias' Weekly Muse: May 29, 2022
Issue 5
Hello, Poets and Writers!
We hope that you have had both a creative and productive week in your writing life. Creativity and productivity definitely fluctuate, and we often receive questions about how to tackle writer’s block when the creative stream seems to have gone dry. This is such a major issue in the lives of writers that we will be addressing this problem in several upcoming installments of the Muse, giving you various options for unblocking your creative flow.
One interesting technique for writer’s block is to continuously ask yourself this simple question as you begin to write a poem (or fiction piece): “What if?” Here’s how it works—even if you are feeling absolutely no creativity within your bones at all, force yourself to come up with an opening to your poem. Look around the room, look out the window, g…