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
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
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
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