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Darren Blake

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Can you tell us a two-sentence horror story?
Darren Blake Paul annoyed the horror writer. They never found the body.
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How do you deal with writer’s block?
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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.

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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 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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Comedy of Terrors
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THE LONG RIVER AND ITS CONSPIRACY OF LIES

“AI is the reason I can’t get discovered.”

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Okay. I’m going to peeve a lot of people off with my take on this very popular complaint, but hear me out.

Amazon is the reason you can’t get discovered. And by insisting on playing Amazon’s pay-to-play game, you are very complicit in this lack of discoverability.

Algorithms have long been a fact of life for those of us living on the internet. Twitter,

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