How Meta-Cognitive Strategies Cured My Writer’s Block

Author_Didi_Cooper
5 min readDec 5, 2020
Sunset reflections, Kennebunk, Maine (Didi Cooper)

“It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

Meta-cognition, very simply put, is thinking about your thinking. I won’t bore you with my long-winded definition and ponderings, but I will warn you it’s one of my favorite cognitive constructs to talk about. And implementing meta-cognitive…

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Author_Didi_Cooper

Writer, ghostwriter, and dreamer, living on the coast of Maine. Author of the children’s book, Before You Were Ours and the novel, The Magic of Missing You.