Right on point. I feel like at least for me, "writer's block" is two separate problems:
1. Being uncomfortable with my thoughts, i.e. fear of being wrong, fear of sounding stupid, fear of going against the popular opinion.
2. Being uncomfortable with my writing, i.e. feeling that my writing sounds too boring, or too primitive, or too comp…
Right on point. I feel like at least for me, "writer's block" is two separate problems:
1. Being uncomfortable with my thoughts, i.e. fear of being wrong, fear of sounding stupid, fear of going against the popular opinion.
2. Being uncomfortable with my writing, i.e. feeling that my writing sounds too boring, or too primitive, or too complex, in any case worse than what I have in my head.
Sometimes I struggle with both, sometimes it's one or the other.
I guess the solution to #1 is to embrace it, and the solution to #2 is to deliberate-practice it and keep improving. Writing from abundance, as David Perell says.
Right on point. I feel like at least for me, "writer's block" is two separate problems:
1. Being uncomfortable with my thoughts, i.e. fear of being wrong, fear of sounding stupid, fear of going against the popular opinion.
2. Being uncomfortable with my writing, i.e. feeling that my writing sounds too boring, or too primitive, or too complex, in any case worse than what I have in my head.
Sometimes I struggle with both, sometimes it's one or the other.
I guess the solution to #1 is to embrace it, and the solution to #2 is to deliberate-practice it and keep improving. Writing from abundance, as David Perell says.