Is there a writer’s block?

Daniel Wieser 🔥
3 min readMar 3, 2022

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Whether writer’s block exists is a question I have been grappling with for some time, although I have already answered it for myself.

Introduction

Whether writer’s block exists is a question I’ve been grappling with for some time, although I’ve already answered it for myself. And no, there isn’t. But that doesn’t change the fact that the question of how to overcome writer’s block is asked all the time.

Looking for solutions?

You don’t have writer’s block,
you’ve got thinker’s block…

If you want to write a book, sooner or later you will come to a point where you don’t know what to do. This situation is commonly called writer’s block, even though it is not. Your situation can change with enough input to think about.

Improve the situation

However, this does not change the fact that those affected feel it as such and keep looking for a way out by trying to cure a disease (writer’s block) for which there is no cure, especially since the disease does not exist.

It is a subject that people love to write about — what an irony — because the readers who are supposed to be writing are looking for the next best way to improve their condition.

They won’t find it because it doesn’t exist.

They are digging their own grave by not writing, searching for a solution, which would actually be the solution to all their problems. Only by writing does the block go away.

I am writing these lines on my mobile phone because at the end of the day I am too exhausted to sit down in front of the computer and really write a book. It would probably go faster if I had the strength and leisure to do it.

Think long term

Nevertheless, every little contribution is still a contribution and in the long run I can write more in a week than in a whole day off. I spend several hours divided into individual days more productively than if I had to work through them one after the other. This should be a hint: try the same.

You have your phone with you everywhere, so there’s no excuse to write down your thoughts or keep a journal. I used to find it better to write down my ideas by hand first and then transfer them.

Today, I see it more as duplicate work that I want to avoid at all costs. Every extra step that keeps me from publishing what I’ve written is annoying — and mostly unnecessary.

The only way to beat writer’s block….

The perfect blog post or the most beautifully worded article?
Don’t strive for perfectionism, because you’ll never achieve it anyway. But strive for improvement. So if you write badly, or very badly, practice writing more of what you would like to write.

After that, you must be satisfied with what you have accomplished. Hemingway was right when he said, “The first draft of everything is shit.” He forgot to say that you can also create really great shit that people love.

Forgive me for using that language. It’s not usually my style. But I’m sure you understand what I’m getting at….You could still talk yourself out of something called writer’s block and then become known for it.

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