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Writer's
Block Is A Crock
Writer’s block is a crock. It is an ego trip! I spent many years in the community newspaper business, publishing small town daily and weekly newspapers. People in that business don’t have time for writer’s block. You can’t put out a 36 page newspaper full of blank pages and tell your subscribers “Sorry, I have writer’s block!” That deadline is there and you get your butt in front of a keyboard and you write! Writer’s block is an ego trip I can’t afford to take. Ego trips are for artists. I’m a hack. But I make darned good money being a hack, and sometimes when I’m feeling particularly benevolent, I might take a starving artist to lunch. Not really, I prefer to spend my time with real people who work in the real world! So are you a real person, or are you too busy being an artist? You cure writer’s block by writing! Sit down at your computer and write for ten minutes and see what happens. I don’t care what you write about. Just write! If you can’t think of anything else to write about, write to me and tell me why I’m full of bull when I say writer’s block is a myth. Spend ten minutes doing that and you just may discover by the time you’re through that your writer’s block has disappeared. Getting started is the obstacle most writers face. It helps me to have several projects going on at once. So if I get bored with one, or just can’t get motivated to work on a particular project, I just move along to another. The danger of this method is that you may find yourself with a hard drive full of partially completed manuscripts and nothing ever gets finished. Writing is hard work, and if you want to make real money at it, you have to approach it as a business. So stop making excuses and sit down and write!
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