How to get out of the writing crisis. Hemingway's rule

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Hemingway was a man of genius. And his rule will help you if you are faced with a writing crisis and stare at a blank screen for hours, trying to squeeze at least a few words out of yourself.

Whether you're writing a short article or a 500-page novel, it doesn't matter. Sometimes even trying to squeeze out a few words is not an easy task. Staring at a blank sheet of paper or a blank screen, you wake up only after a while, realizing that you have been doing this for half an hour.

But there’s no point.

Hemingway had a solution to the problem of writing crisis, and we will talk about a rule that helped him write constantly below.

Hemingway was a genius writer! But even he sometimes could not withstand the creative crisis. Here's what he did in such cases:

Sometimes, when I can't start a new story, I sit down in front of the fireplace and throw orange peels into it, looking at the flashing blue flames. I get up, look at the rooftops of Paris and say to myself: “Don't worry. You have written before, and you will continue to do so. The main thing is to write one the presentoffer.

Any story - no matter how big it is, whether it's a book or a story - should start with one real sentence. The next time you sit in front of a blank screen, remember this:

1. Think about something important.
2. Write one very real sentence.
3. Tell your readers an interesting story based on this sentence.

Once you write one sentence, you stop thinking about how to start. Instead, you’ll start thinking about how to tell a story, which’s better than staring blankly at a blank screen, right?

The story you tell may be challenged, but that doesn't matter. This is your story, and you can take the reader's hand, lead their hand through it, and show why what you write is important.

You just need one the presentoffer.