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If You Have Writer's Block, Maybe You Should Stop Lying
Almost everything about the concept of “writer’s block” irritates me. The supposed greatest obstacle to success or productivity is structured so passively you’d think it was written by the New York Times trying to describe civilian death. “Writer’s block.” What exactly is being blocked and by whom? The process of writing — not writing well, just wr... See more
The Myth of Writer's Block
Alex Burns added
The irony is that the hard parts, like writer’s block and openness, is where there’s self-examination, progress and growth.
And if we’re not pursuing creativity for that, then why are we? The clicks?
And if we’re not pursuing creativity for that, then why are we? The clicks?
Matt Klein • Making Sense of Culture Amidst Contradiction
Agalia Tan added
There’s kind of a mantra in journalism that you don’t actually have writer’s block, you’re just not done reporting. I think that that’s true for every kind of writing. Sometimes you try to write an essay and you’re getting blocked and blocked and blocked, and the problem isn’t that you have writer’s block; it’s that you haven’t fully emotionally pr... See more
Maria Potoroczyn added
You don’t have writer’s block. You’re just scared to say what you actually think. As my friend Jeremy Giffon says: “The best writing prompt for when I'm stuck is simply ‘be more honest.”
David Perell • 31 Ways to Improve Your Writing
You should write because when you know that you’re going to write, it changes the way you live. I’m thinking about a book I read called Field Notes on Science & Nature , a collection of essays by scientists about their notes. It’s hard to imagine a more tedious concept — a book of essays about notes ? — but in execution it was wonderful. What i... See more
jsomers.net • More People Should Write
"…everyone wants to succeed immediately and without pain or effort. Or they love to write books about how to write books, rather than actually writing...a book that might actually be about something. Bad advice is every- where. Build a following. Establish a platform. Learn how to scam the system. In other words, do all the surface stuff and none o... See more
Erikc Perez-Perez added
So the point is to take the work seriously but you don’t take yourself too seriously. There’s a riff about this in Stephen Pressfield’s War of Art, where he talks about how amateurs are too precious with their work: “The professional has learned, however, that too much love can be a bad thing. Too much love can make him choke. The seeming detachmen
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