Here’s the thing about writer’s block:
First you look at your email inbox. You read all the newsletters and junk. Open a bunch of new tabs. Skim the top two paragraphs of each article and save most of them to Instapaper. Try not to think about the sheer volume of “content” that you process and how you feel about parsing the deluge. Would it be better to slowly peruse just a couple of very important and thoughtful features? Maybe. But keep avoiding that discussion with yourself.
Here’s the thing about writer’s block: You CAN fix it — by waiting or writing. Those are the only ways.
You cannot fix it by watching The Good Wife, or walking the dog, or endlessly scrolling back to the top of Twitter. But you’ll do those things anyway.
You can’t fix it by going to therapy, but you did that too. Maybe it’ll help shift the stuckness behind the scenes (the scenes taking place in your brain).
One way to wait is to make the phone calls you need to make. Send out some emails. Tally up invoices.
One way to write is to type up a blog post about having writer’s block. See what I did there?
