Writer's block, an owner's guide: Preparing for writer’s block

Some refreshing ideas in Doug McHone’s CoffeeSwirls . Mainly aimed at bloggers, these suggestions for prevention, or at least providence, take us away from the usual cures for writer’s block. I haven’t looked around the rest of Doug’s site because I only came over here to write a learned article about intrinsic motivation, and… oh, okay, give me a few minutes.

I’m back. Well, then, the guy writes from a point of view that isn’t mine. That was obvious from the start, obvious from the first couple of tips on the writer’s block page. His viewpoint gets no less obvious as you keep reading. That’s a good thing, for he is following his own advice about transparency, and because why would the world need two people who think the way I do.

I particularly like #4 (“Challenge yourself to be transparent”) because authenticity is one of my own goals in writing, in being with therapy clients and in private life: and it’s one of the goals that blogging helps me with.

For bloggers, I liked “if you get ahead, schedule posts in advance.” That won’t happen for me until I make time to master cron on the new server, but it’s a great thought. What I sometimes do is to backdate some of my stuff, with the same hope of creating an illusion that I write every day, when actually I write in messy spurts.

Camilla McGarva I’m not copying his suggestions in detail for you, why would I want to retype them? There are ten of them and if you read them all and connect with one, that’s worth the effort of your mouse-click. Go on, read it.

Oh, and – after nine months of being a blogger who resisted this – here’s the obligatory picture of my cat.

And your response?

Published on April 23, 2005 at 1:48 pm. Linking to this article? Thank you! The permanent address is http://www.todayiwrite.com/journal/preparing-for-writers-block.html

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