The Myth of Writer's Block
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The Myth of Writer's Block
“The advice I like to give anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process
... See moreToday some experts argue that writer’s block isn’t real—that it’s the natural product of procrastination, poor planning or strategy, or the extended absence of good ideas. Whatever you call it, though, the sense of being stuck as you pursue creative output is familiar to almost every writer.
Adam Alter • Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most
One of the questions I get asked most often as a novelist is “How do you avoid writer’s block?” My response: “I’ve never had writer’s block. If you’re suffering from writer’s block, you’re suffering from a lack of things to write. Write different stuff.”
Elysha Dicks • Someday Is Today
No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down. Why then, is writer's block endemic?
Kevin Tumlinson • 30-Day Author: Develop a Daily Writing Habit and Write Your Book in 30 Days (or Less) (Wordslinger 1)
The mind has plenty of ways of preventing you from writing, and paralysing self-consciousness is a good one. The only thing to do is ignore it,
Philip Pullman • Daemon Voices: Essays on Storytelling
“Why should I get writer’s block?” asked the mischievous Roger Simon. “My father never got truck driver’s block.”