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Overcoming Writer's Block

To be a writer is the life… right? Well lots of people think so but the reality, shh don’t tell anyone, but it’s hard work. So hard in fact that some people suffer from writer’s block.

So what exactly is that? Some nefarious disease? Some physical ailment? A crushing blow?

No. It’s not. It’s when a writer can’t write. Not because they don’t know how or because they can’t but then again they can’t. The words won’t flow, the story won’t come, what they do manage to write doesn’t make sense, it’s not going where they want it to, they’re way too distracted by every other thing on earth that needs to be done.

Writer’s block is one of those things that some people believe in and others don’t. The reality though is that if you’re a writer at some point in your career you’re going to struggle with getting your story down on paper. On having it make sense. On having it go the direction that you think it should.

Why does it happen? That’s really a story for another time. The question is how do you overcome it? How do you get beyond being in that checkmate place? How do you get unstuck?

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