My personal notes for No Such Thing as Writers Block
From Akimbo, a podcast by Seth Godin
There’s no such thing as writer's block.
Plumbers don’t get plumbers block.
What we’re really saying is “I don’t have any ideas that are perfectly formed. I don’t have something I’m sure is going to work.”
Your problem isn’t that you don’t have enough good ideas. Your problem might be that you don’t have enough bad ideas.
We don’t have a problem with writing. What we really have a problem with is being perfect.
The fear will never go away. The resistance will never go away. The more important the work, the louder it gets. The harder you try to make it go away, the harder and more clever it gets in response.
The hard work is doing it when you don’t feel like it.