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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Tom Shroder In my first newspaper job, the news editor had a slogan printed in huge WWIII headline type and taped it above his desk. It was exactly three words lo…moreIn my first newspaper job, the news editor had a slogan printed in huge WWIII headline type and taped it above his desk. It was exactly three words long, and it has stayed in my mind ever since as the single best antidote to writer's block. It said: "DON'T WRITE, TYPE."
So whenever I get stuck, I remind myself that nothing matters but putting words on the screen, one followed by another. You can always come back to improve it -- that's the fun part -- but you need SOMETHING to work on. And sometimes you surprise yourself, and just by typing, you come up with something unexpectedly worthwhile.(less)

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Tom Shroder It's not the writing for sure. To borrow a phrase, it's the "having written." There is nothing to match the feeling of accomplishment you get when you…moreIt's not the writing for sure. To borrow a phrase, it's the "having written." There is nothing to match the feeling of accomplishment you get when you manage express an idea or a feeling or tell a story in a way that matches the inexpressible internal sensation you were trying to express to begin with.(less)

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	Old Souls: Compelling Evidence from Children Who Remember Past Lives 3.71 avg rating — 1,946 ratings — published 1999 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Acid Test: LSD, Ecstasy, and the Power to Heal 4.27 avg rating — 1,286 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fire On The Horizon: The Untold Story Of The Gulf Oil Disaster by John Konrad (Goodreads Author), Tom Shroder (Goodreads Author) 4.15 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 2011 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hunt for Bin Laden 3.70 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Most Famous Writer Who Ever Lived: A True Story of My Family 3.68 avg rating — 40 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seeing the Light:: Wilderness and Salvation: A Photographer's Tale 4.25 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“It is helpful to refer back to it, to reconnect, have a daily practice of some kind, whether it’s getting out in nature or doing artwork or any other way, but at the same time it can turn over into grasping and worrying about losing it. It’s about letting things happen, not grasping. You can trust that the same inner healing intelligence that gave you that experience, if you create space for it, it will keep working for you.”
― Tom Shroder, Acid Test: How a Daring Group of Psychonauts Rediscovered the Power of LSD, MDMA, and OtherPsychedelic Drugs to Heal Addiction, Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma

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“Reality, he wrote, “has to be funneled through the reducing valve of the brain and nervous system. What comes out at the other end is a measly trickle of the kind of consciousness which will help us to stay alive on the surface of this particular planet.” Mescaline and LSD, he theorized, inhibited the systems in the brain designed to shut out impractical stimulation, so humans could keep coloring within the lines and go about the business of survival without being distracted by the astounding awesomeness of the universe—or as Huxley put it, “the glory, the infinite value and meaningfulness of naked existence, of the given, unconceptualized event.” Huxley”
― Tom Shroder, Acid Test: How a Daring Group of Psychonauts Rediscovered the Power of LSD, MDMA, and OtherPsychedelic Drugs to Heal Addiction, Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma

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― Tom Shroder, Fire on the Horizon: The Untold Story of the Gulf Oil Disaster

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