Tim Birchard
Writer's block is a luxury for those who are waiting for inspiration to come to them.
When I don't feel like writing... when I don't feel "inspired", it's my responsibility to GET inspired. I am the only one who can light my fuse.
Therefore, I deal with writer's block by writing. By suspending judgment of my writing. By creating, as Anne Lamott puts it, a "sh*tty first draft".
That which creates the 'block' is the ego, making its demands about outcome. When I drop into the heart and simply write for the love of writing, for the sake of writing, releasing any and all attachment to outcome, then I chase down inspiration. Grab it by the tail. Hoist it up onto my shoulders and take it for a ride.
Unless all ten of my fingers are broken, I have no excuse not to write. And even then, there's dictation software. So until my body dies, I have no excuse not to write. Only the responsibility to make an active, conscious choice: to write, or not to write.
When I don't feel like writing... when I don't feel "inspired", it's my responsibility to GET inspired. I am the only one who can light my fuse.
Therefore, I deal with writer's block by writing. By suspending judgment of my writing. By creating, as Anne Lamott puts it, a "sh*tty first draft".
That which creates the 'block' is the ego, making its demands about outcome. When I drop into the heart and simply write for the love of writing, for the sake of writing, releasing any and all attachment to outcome, then I chase down inspiration. Grab it by the tail. Hoist it up onto my shoulders and take it for a ride.
Unless all ten of my fingers are broken, I have no excuse not to write. And even then, there's dictation software. So until my body dies, I have no excuse not to write. Only the responsibility to make an active, conscious choice: to write, or not to write.
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