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Sep 26, 2018 · Writer’s block is a fiction. That’s not to say I always feel like writing, or that I have some big idea percolating. I don’t know if you can force out good sentences or great ideas, but that doesn’t mean you cannot write. You can always write garbage; goodness knows, I write plenty of that.
- Nora Ephron
Nora Ephron - Is It Real? 25 Famous Writers on Writer’s...
- Judy Blume
Judy Blume - Is It Real? 25 Famous Writers on Writer’s Block...
- Ben Marcus
Writer’s block, if that’s the name for it, happens when I am...
- Writing About Not Writing
Writer’s block, it turns out, can (and does) happen to...
- Writer's Block
Writer's Block - Is It Real? 25 Famous Writers on Writer’s...
- Nora Ephron
Jun 7, 2024 · Writer’s block is a fiction. That’s not to say I always feel like writing, or that I have some big idea percolating. I don’t know if you can force out good sentences or great ideas, but that doesn’t mean you cannot write. You can always write garbage; goodness knows, I write plenty of that.
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- Ray Bradbury
- Jhumpa Lahiri
- John Steinbeck
- Joan Didion
- Maya Angelou
When Bradburybecame blocked in his writing, he took it as a sign of being on the wrong track. “In the middle of writing something you go blank and your mind says: ‘No, that’s it,’” he said in a 2001 speech. “You’re being warned, aren’t you? Your subconscious is saying ‘I don’t like you anymore. You’re writing about things I don’t give a damn for.’”...
According to Lahiri, writer’s block is simply part of the process of writing, “the period during which ideas gestate in the mind, when a story grows but isn’t necessarily being written in sentences on the page,” she told The Times. Her foolproof way of getting over it? Taking a break from what she’s writing and picking up a book. She’s not alone in...
When it came to writer’s block, The Grapes of Wrath author advised fellow writers that the easiest way to get started was to forget the audience they were supposed to be writing for and, instead, making it more personal by writing to a single person. Not only did this strategy help remove the fear of writing to an unknown audience, but “it also, yo...
Among the revelations in the 2017 documentary Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold was how The Year of Magical Thinking author dealt with being blocked: “If she’s feeling stuck on something,” Didion's editor, Shelley Wanger, said, “she’ll put it in the freezer ... The manuscript, in the freezer, in a bag.”
Author and poet Maya Angelou was not fond of the term writer’s block, which she felt gave the phenomenon a power that she wasn’t comfortable with. But she did sometimes suffer from it, and had a strategy for overcoming it: Just writing, even if what came out wasn’t her finest work. “I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, n...
- “I haven’t had trouble with writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly. My first drafts are filled with lurching, clichéd writing, outright flailing around.
- “Writer’s block is a load of nonsense – I’ve always been a bit suspicious of it. It’s more likely to be a symptom of depression or maybe they’ve just got nothing interesting to say.
- “I think writer’s block is a way the brain has of telling you you’ve taken a false step. I think you need to wait a day or two, then start reading your work from the beginning, and the false step should become apparent.” ―
- “The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day … you will never be stuck.
Nov 6, 2017 · Read on for several different strategies seven famous authors have used to overcome writer’s block and keep writing away. 1. Maya Angelou’s “Just Write” Strategy. Writing is like any art ...
- Nicole Bianchi
For author and marketing expert Ryan Holiday, writer’s block is akin to “runner’s block”—and the only way to beat both is to, well, attack. So how does he deal with writer’s block when it happens?
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Aug 23, 2023 · When faced with writer’s block, it can feel like hitting a mental roadblock. But fear not! There are numerous alternative approaches you can try to stimulate your creativity and get those words flowing again.
