Blogging, in my experience, is the very best way to break a writers’ block. It is a little like journalling, in that you write fast, with lower standards, suspending your inner critic. You write fast, and write a lot. And the habits of writing fast, writing fluently, translate over to one’s real writing.
Milton said he wrote prose “with his left hand.” If one is both a serious literary writer, and a blogger, one could view blogging as “left-hand writing” which one does partly to keep thinking, keep writing, keep one’s fingers nimble and ready to the task.
I do my “real” writing so much more easily and confidently because, 6 days a week, I update my three blogs,
wanderingbetweentwoworlds.blogspot.com among them, and so have got used to writing fast, to the best of my ability. Not striving for perfection, but for a piece of writing which is “good enough.”
Read my new memoir: Rosaries, Reading, Secrets: A Catholic Childhood in India (US) or UK.
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My book of essays: Wandering Between Two Worlds (US) or UK
