Writer’s Block is not a Figment of Your Imagination

It seems like every time the subject of writer’s block comes up, twenty million writers jump in to proclaim, “It doesn’t exist!” and accuse anyone who struggles with it of being lazy or whining.  So if you  have writer’s block, you’re now wishing you could hide somewhere and maybe thinking it’s best not to even bother asking for help.

Honestly, that’s just plain wrong for one group of writers to make another group of writers feel.  What is it with writers and this black and white stuff anyway?  Creativity is not even shades of gray — it’s shades of colors and patterns.  There is no one way something should be.

So let’s get the preliminary stuff out of the way: writer’s block does exist.  Just because an individual person hasn’t experienced it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.  That’s like saying puppies and kittens don’t exist because you don’t have one.

How do I know it exists?  I’ve had it.  Read the rest over at Unleaded — Fuel for Writers.

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Linda Adams, Soldier, Storyteller

Starting November 4, I will doing a month-long session on Forward Motion on “Basic Training of Military Culture.”  The lesson plan for the course is posted here.

 

Why I’m Going Indie – on Unleaded – Fuel for Writers

I’m doing a post over at Unleaded – Fuel for Writers about twice a month.  This is an excerpt.  Please drop by and check it and the posts for the other writers out!

I’m the new writer at Unleaded, and yup, I’m going indie.  It wasn’t an easy decision.  I started writing at eight years old, and my goal was always to get a novel published by a publisher.  Self-publishing was a guy pulling out a book from a closet and trying to sell it.  For fiction, it screamed “Failure.”

But last year, I was taking Holly Lisle’s How to Revise Your Novel, and she decided to go indie.  A lot of writers followed her path.  I looked at it, dismissed it as “not for me.”  But I was drawn back to it more than once, perhaps because it represented a big change to the publishing industry. Read the rest …