Goodreads asked Jake Needham:

How do you deal with writer’s block?

Jake Needham If you're a professional, you show up every damn day, you put your butt in a chair, and you do your work. If you whine about not being able to write instead of working, you're not a professional. Simple as that.

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Bob4you Spoken like a true professional.
Dec 31, 2014 12:17AM · flag

Ben Arnold I'm so happy you said that. I've been researching the life of authors for many decades now and I've never come across anything but discussion after di I'm so happy you said that. I've been researching the life of authors for many decades now and I've never come across anything but discussion after discussion concerning the dreaded disease of writer's block. And one day it hit me, I've never met anyone, or read about anyone whose career ended in writer's block. It was a total scam! Imagine how many authors have banked on books about overcoming writer's block, instead of actually writing books that matter. It's a total sham. After feeding off their teets, one day I grew up, and just moving on, I came across your quote, and thought to myself, what a life wasted, for so many people, who live in something you and I don't know about, it's called the opposite of reality, something we're trying to understand, and are certain can be helped if they take certain psychotherapy drugs. Wow. Thank you for speaking truth, rather than following the line of the mainstream. Kudos for your decisions in Singapore too, wish more people had an American spirit in them, the American people sure could use one, and wish more who had one didn't end up in prison or dead for example the authors and journalists in China who dare speak their mind. People always ask me why I don't live in China, when most of my business is in China. I'm always startled by their question, don't they read the news? China has all the money, but that doesn't mean I'd live there, and thanks to modern tools we don't need to. And can still rake in all that money that they got from America, the trillions upon trillions, and all the gold, etc. Some times I have a dream that money still exists in America, and I wake up so happy, smiling, and then I realize it was just a dream, and I scream in horror as the past decades of Facebook/Twitter timeline news feeds re-stream through my mind snapping me back to the present day and I sob like a baby in the fetal position. So you can't print in Singapore. I'm happy that your work is still accepted in all other 240 countries. It's funny how these seemingly huge problems are actually just a creepy crawly tick you picked up on your wee wee while canoeing down the Mississippi river and I've had dozens and to this day still don't even care, just plucked them out, probably broke off the head like they tell ya you're not supposed to do, and I'm still as healthy as a horse. But I have a raging migraine at the moment. Had McDs yesterday. Heaven help us! ...more
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