Writer’s Block and How to Get Around It

A great post today from Tony Pierce about writer’s block that might come in handy for any blogger or site publisher who has struggled with the issue:

to me writers block happens when you are afraid to say the things that you want to say. it happens when you self edit yourself before you start writing or while you are writing. it happens when youre trying to be a perfectionist. when youre trying to write to one hard-to-reach person instead of to a willing and wide audience. and it happens when youre confused as to who your audience is.

to me writers block is the devil whispering “you suck, this sucks, you cant write, nobody cares, so and so has said this before and better, bloggings dumb, your blogs dumb, youre dumb,” and you listen to those whispers as opposed to the siren song of your muse.

He goes on with a number of approaches he applies to the problem, which must be rather effective, because in over 4 years of blogging, he’s never been held back by writer’s block…

My thanks to Doc Searls for turning me on to this…