How To Get out of a Writing Rut

Seven practical steps by a Creative Writing MA student

Denisa Vitova
The Writing Cooperative
6 min readMar 1, 2020

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You’re getting up past noon, eating canned beans three times a day, and playing videogames way past a reasonable bedtime. Most importantly, you’re not getting any writing done. It’s a block, a rut, a hibernation, or whatever you want to call this dark period of uncertain length that strikes unexpectedly and at the…

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BA in Literature and Linguistics, MA in Creative Writing. Published by The London Magazine, Ambit, Firewords, The Moth and others. Now works in media.