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Darren Blake

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This is a contentious question. There are some camps that don't believe this exists as anything other than an avoidance mechanism.

I'm about 55% in tha…more

This is a contentious question. There are some camps that don't believe this exists as anything other than an avoidance mechanism.

I'm about 55% in that camp. I believe there are people out there who genuinely get blocked, but no matter the reason, I do firmly believe that it's all in the writer's mind. (Heh.) My 55% anti-existence stance is strictly my own experiences with the phenomenon. This means that FOR ME, "writer's block" is nothing more than putting off writing that next book, that next chapter, or even that next paragraph. So... how do I deal with it?

I write anyway.

Every writer has different ways of dealing with different things, and this is not going to be your end-all, be-all solution to the problem. However, for me, I combat writer's block by writing that I don't know what to write next. Eventually my brain gets tired of regurgitating the same, tired complaints and actually starts writing story.

And of course, once the writing session is done, I delete that initial section where I'm writing about an inability to write.(less)
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WE’RE BACK, GLITCHES!

Hey there.

You may not remember me. My name is (not actually) Darren Blake. I’m a random writer from the internet who tries to entertain, inform, educate, and just make a general mockery of the writing life.

And I’ve been gone.

Like, for a while.

As you may or may not remember, if you are the one who used to follow this blog, I’ve had vision issues for the last several years. And, for the last several

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“All writers, including me, are full of it. Sure, we all have our things and we'd like to believe that our way is the "one true way," but when it comes right down to it, my way works for one person: Me. What ends up working for you is your way.”
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