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Writer’s Block
 
Dead Beat
Posted: 26 September 2006 11:35 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Writer’s block does not exist. At it’s worst it is an excuse for being lazy, at best a necessary part of the writing process.

What do you think?

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susan
Posted: 01 October 2006 07:44 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I tend to disagree.  I think writer’s block is what exists in the absence of inspiration.

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Posted: 01 October 2006 10:26 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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So if we are not ‘inspired’ we are ‘blocked’… this is my concern .. so definitions of ‘writer’s block’ please..

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Posted: 09 January 2007 01:29 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Writer’s block lives only in the minds of those who choose to let it come in.

In other words, writer’s block is a bunch of hooey.

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Posted: 18 January 2007 06:07 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Here’s the trick.  Conduct a sort of competition between the pages you have written and the number of rejection slips you have received from agents, editors, and publications.  If rejection slips outnumber pages you have written, you can use the old “Writers Block” excuse.  If number of pages you have written outnumber rejection slips then you still have a goal to work toward.  Of course, getting published is always a nice goal to shoot for, too.  This is all to say that actually “Writers Block” is a myth.  Perhaps the phrase “Writer’s Block” would serve our purposes better if it carried a meaning more akin to “Butcher’s Block.” A wrtier’s block is such a piece upon which chopping and cutting of a text is performed.  In other words, when a piece is on the “writer’s block,” it is going through the editing stages.  Write on!

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