Why do We Have Writer’s Block and not Plumber’s Block

Seth Godin often stresses out how you can never hear something like a “plumber’s block”; a plumber can do his job anytime he wants. But can you really compare plumbing and writing? A plumber is someone who installs and fixes pipes. Therefore, if you have a building, a water source, some pipes, and some tools to connect all of these, you’ve got yourself a job. Imagine a plumber walking into a building to set the

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Write Even if it Hurts like Hell

During the period of one year, I managed to wake up each morning at 4:30 and write. This is the only time when nobody is disrupting me (except cats and bladder). Even though this time is reserved for writing I don’t actually write always.  Sometimes I just sit there and do nothing. Stare at the empty screen or read through the things I have written before hoping to pick up where I’ve left off. That

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Pushing Beyond Your Limits

There will be times when you would rather lay down in your bed and do nothing. Also, you will get in a phase where you would rather spend time doing anything else from cleaning your house to finishing a 1000 pages novel in one sitting or walking 5 miles just to buy that new notebook which you need to make useful notes for your outline. These times are called the ‘writer’s block’ and they can

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Cleaning up as a Crucial Part of Writing Process

You know that feeling when you just cannot write until you clean you work-space, remove every single unnecessary object from your eyesight? Of course, you do, you are a writer. Well, some people call this – procrastination, I call it – detox.  It’s all nice and dandy You have probably heard that you should write every day (I, myself, am an advocate of that ), but sometimes there is a point in your story, or

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