DavidHulett Wilson
DavidHulett Wilson asked Glenn H. Mitchell:

Why does anyone think there's such a thing as "writers block"? If you don't feel in the mood to write - don't write. If you need to write to pay the rent and you suffer from writer's block, maybe you're in the wrong job.

Glenn H. Mitchell Absolutely. I find the concept alien. I reckon I'll need three or four lifetimes to get through the list of ideas I have for stories. If I have a bad day, I just lean forward and keep dragging the plough through muck. Maybe part of the reason I never suffer from writers block is that I do a lot of daydreaming and developing scenes in my head. To the observer, it may look like OCD when I repeatedly open and close doors or walk in small circles, but it's actually because I'm in the middle of an imagined conversation between characters. By the time I sit down and start writing I'm normally racing to empty the contents of my skull. I never look at a blank page and sigh, that's for sure.

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