Okay, so I am the literal queen of writer's block. I will sit there, staring at a blinking cursor for hours, convinced my first sentence has to be so profound it makes my professor weep. 
It's paralizing.
My secret weapon? I trick my brain. I open a blank document and literally give myself permission to write the absolute worst garbage imaginable. I call it my "vomit draft."
No formatting, no worrying about transitions, I just word-vomit everything I might want to say onto the page. If I can't think of a word, I just type [WORD] and move on.
The goal isn't to write, it's to fill the page. It's so much easier to edit a bad page than to edit a blank one. Once the crap is out of my system, my inner perfectionist can come out and start cleaning it up. Just start typing anything, even if it's "I don't know what to write." I swear it works.
It's paralizing.My secret weapon? I trick my brain. I open a blank document and literally give myself permission to write the absolute worst garbage imaginable. I call it my "vomit draft."
No formatting, no worrying about transitions, I just word-vomit everything I might want to say onto the page. If I can't think of a word, I just type [WORD] and move on.The goal isn't to write, it's to fill the page. It's so much easier to edit a bad page than to edit a blank one. Once the crap is out of my system, my inner perfectionist can come out and start cleaning it up. Just start typing anything, even if it's "I don't know what to write." I swear it works.
