How To Beat Writers Block

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Are You Writing? Just As Importantly,

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I've run across four types of real writer's block.

* Complete Block, where the writer simply cannot put words on paper. Though sometimes it happens for no apparent reason, this tends to be the sort of block that hits when the writer's life has gone through a huge shock---death of a loved one; loss of a job; a major illness; a massive financial crisis; and on, and on. The things life can throw at us are endless, and the results on a writer's work can be devastating.

* Inner Critic Block, where the writer is still writing, but hates every word that lands on the page, and ends up deleting everything sooner or later, moving from project to project without finishing anything.

* Pages of Misery Block, in which the writer is getting pages, and managing to keep them, but is having a miserable time, every day, day in and day out. The writing is less fun than working in a cubicle farm, and the writer frequently questions why he or she is even doing this.

* Chemical Block, in which the writer is taking anti-depressants or other medications---or using substances---that alter brain chemistry and that in some cases can completely kill writing.

There's a fifth kind of block, in which the writer dresses in black and goes to coffee houses and writers' meetings where he rolls his eyes and regales friends and anyone else who will listen with tales about the agonies he's suffering with his writer's block. This isn't real writer's block. This is Truman Capote Writer's Block, where the writer can get lots of sympathy and credit for being a writer without actually having to write. Very handy if the writer has a multi-million-dollar advance in the bank and just wants to party. Or where the individual has discovered that claiming to be a writer is a great way to meet girls, (or guys) but has also discovered that producing an actual manuscript is a lot of work.

However, I can't think of a single working writer I've known who's been blocked and who's introduced it as a topic of party conversation. Writers talk about writer's block in the same tones (and at the same volume) that men discuss erectile dysfunction. And for the same reasons.

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