[HN Gopher] The Unsuccessful Treatment of a Case of "Writer's Bl...
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       The Unsuccessful Treatment of a Case of "Writer's Block" (1974)
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       Author : Tomte
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2021-09-03 19:02 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | lnwlebjel wrote:
       | As one who writes for a living, I've found that the 'cure' for
       | writer's block is to start with a non-blank page. Since my
       | writing is research based, this is usually pretty easy since you
       | can start with a bunch of quotes or one-liner facts and things
       | like that.
       | 
       | Goodness knows how creative writers prevent it!
        
         | version_five wrote:
         | Related, the advice I've heard is never to completely finish
         | what you're writing when you stop for the day. Having some
         | obvious things to dive right into when you come back to it
         | makes it much easier to get warmed up again then e.g. finishing
         | a chapter or section and having to start on a new one.
         | 
         | Same is true for coding I believe, it's nice to have some quick
         | wins to get started with before trying to tackle something
         | brand new.
        
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       | inglor_cz wrote:
       | Lol :)
       | 
       | Accidentally, I write for living (in my native language, not in
       | English) and my experience is that some activities interfere with
       | my ability to write.
       | 
       | One of them is making corrections in drafts of a book. Exhausting
       | and text-oriented.
       | 
       | Another is programming, as if I had a limited pool of written
       | characters per day. If I spend it on computer code, I cannot
       | spend it on writing for humans.
        
       | omarhaneef wrote:
       | Sometimes, that happens with comments too.
       | 
       | I mean...
       | 
       | you know...
        
         | 0xdeadbeefbabe wrote:
         | (It took 3 hours for that)
        
         | siva7 wrote:
         | with startups too
        
       | marmot777 wrote:
       | I thought the cure for writers block was to just write. It might
       | not be good but just keep writing. There are many great writers
       | who wrote every day no matter how they felt or how well they were
       | writing that day. Action, apparently, tends to cure writer's
       | block.
       | 
       | Ann Handley has some good insights on writer's block:
       | https://annhandley.com/two-little-known-tools-to-help-you-ge...
        
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