5:08 /Defeat Writer's Block / Overcoming Type 2

Defeating Writer’s Block is easy to say, not so easy to do. We writers have to discover the problem we’re having with those pesky little words.

1st, we have to find them—and they do like to hide.

2nd, we have to write them down—whether in a notebook or straight to the keyboard. That’s a whole problem on its own. We can’t count the Block as a simple disruption, a wholesale explosion of our writing time.

It’s the Desire and the Initiative to write that’s the problem.

In our diagnostic quiz, at the end of the Introduction segment, the weakness of our desire, the weakness of our initiative are driving factors that keep us out of our chair.

Type 1 of Writer’s Block is Writer’s Refusal, and I consider it the easiest of the Blocks to diagnose, admit, and defeat.

Type 2 is a harder Block to defeat. What is the Type 2 Block? Writer’s Procrastination.

TIMINGS

• 00:00 Welcome
• 00:40 Introduction
• 01:48 Writer’s Procrastination
• 07:05 Fear #1
• 09:35 Fear #2
• 11:47 Trolls
• 14:06 Last Words / Closing

Total Run Time = 16:14

 

Links to Think like a Pro, original source with other info added:

https://www.amazon.com/Think-like-Pro-Advent-Writers/dp/

Books2Read https://books2read.com/u/4AxWAd

 

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