The Answer Always Comes

The Answer Always Comes

I think the term “Writer’s Block” is over-used. There are seminars about writer’s block, there are blogs about writer’s bloc, and there are even Youtube videos about writer’s block.

Why is everyone so concerned about writer’s block?

The truth is that the answer always comes.

It may not come as fast as we like, it may not be the answer we want, and it may not come at all.

I know what you are thinking: “Hey Steve, didn’t you just say that the answer always comes?” Yes, I did and the answer is that no answer is the answer. It’s like when they say that God answers all prayers. Sometimes the answer is no, but he answers all prayers.

The answer may not be coming because the project is wrong, the time in your life to write the project may be wrong, or you may simply not be that good of a writer.

Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald gets fired from his contract with a movie studio in “Beloved Infidel” because as the studio boss says, “You can’t put adjectives on the screen.”

Fitzgerald may have been a great writer but he wasn’t a good screenwriter. I have learned from my own days as a screenwriter that sometimes the idea for a project was a better idea than an actual story.

Ideas can’t be forced and it really is the few who get from start to finish on any endeavor be it sport or art. Yes, you can go on-line and there are million books to choose from for your reading pleasure but some, maybe most, are not any good. Believe me I’ve read some of them. But how many people have you met who have said, “I should write a book!”

I say, “No! You shouldn’t!” Your story, and many times it’s the writer’s life, is not that interesting.” Okay, I’m being a little snippy. But if the calling was really there to write, you wouldn’t be talking out it. You’d be writing it!

Steven Tyler

Author: One Little Lie

The post The Answer Always Comes appeared first on One Little Lie.