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To: JamesP81
I'm an amateur scifi writer with a severe case of writer's block, but some good ideas.

When you write on a schedule, there's no such thing as writer's block. It's not allowed to exist. When it's time to write, it's time to bloody well write, and you put words on the page.

It doesn't matter if it's not your best work. That's what drafts are for.

29 posted on 03/23/2007 12:26:18 PM PDT by Oberon (What does it take to make government shrink?)
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To: Oberon

"When it's time to write, it's time to bloody well write, and you put words on the page."

Amen to that. When they pay you by the hour, the word "writers block" is not in their vocabulary.

I just say: Fake it till you make it. Just keep pushin them participles around till somethin jells.

Eventually it will.


36 posted on 03/23/2007 12:33:41 PM PDT by Al Gator (Refusing to "stoop to your enemy's level", gets you cut off at the knees.)
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To: Oberon
It doesn't matter if it's not your best work. That's what drafts are for.

The way I heard it best was, "Give yourself permission to suck."

253 posted on 04/09/2007 9:04:45 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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