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COPING WITH IP WRITER’S BLOCK
Writer’s block is “a non-medical condition . . . in which an author is either unable to produce new work or experiences a creative slowdown.” Wikipedia.
It can occur for countless reasons. In the early 1900s, ZANE GREY was one of the first millionaire fiction writers. Then his wife sold his battered, old chair and he couldn’t write. She retrieved the chair and he was a star again. In IP, although we write nonfiction and have deadlines, we can still suffer writer’s block. Try these remedies:
Change Your Work Habits—Write when you’re at your best. Split the job into pieces. If you get on a roll, work 16 hours straight.
Avoid “Analysis Paralysis”—After you start writing, don’t do more research until you have a draft.
Unleash the Madman/Madwoman—If you don’t have a clear vision of your arguments and your outlines aren’t helping you, furiously type every unorganized idea you can dream up. Go crazy. Then separate wheat from chaff.
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