Ask the Author: Sid Crowe
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Sid Crowe
This little baby comes in two evil forms. One form is an inability to write and the other is the inability to sit down and write. Both of them, however, are dealt with in the same manner: write something. Anything.
In my first novel, The Speechwriter, I describe what it feels like to sit down with a pen in hand and not be able to form words. The only solution is to write crap. Eventually your crap will sound alright. That's what you do if you can't make your hands write.
If you cannot force yourself to sit down and write, you let resistance win. If this last sentence didn't mean much to you, stop what you're doing now and go buy Steven Pressfield's book The War of Art. In that book, he reminds us that 'writers block' is just a lack of discipline. Which it is. Writers block is an excuse to not do the hard things.
Now, this answer has been pretty crappy, but at least I wrote something. (My writers block has just evaporated. Leave me alone while I go write).
In my first novel, The Speechwriter, I describe what it feels like to sit down with a pen in hand and not be able to form words. The only solution is to write crap. Eventually your crap will sound alright. That's what you do if you can't make your hands write.
If you cannot force yourself to sit down and write, you let resistance win. If this last sentence didn't mean much to you, stop what you're doing now and go buy Steven Pressfield's book The War of Art. In that book, he reminds us that 'writers block' is just a lack of discipline. Which it is. Writers block is an excuse to not do the hard things.
Now, this answer has been pretty crappy, but at least I wrote something. (My writers block has just evaporated. Leave me alone while I go write).
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