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in hive-120695 •  last month 

Writer's block is when you want to write but can't, or won't. It's related to this concept Steven Pressfield calls resistance. It's like when you're avoiding an assignment and the long you avoid it the harder it becomes for you to sit down and face it. Resistance is accumulative.

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I know what it is and it is can't not the won't because you are lazy. That's why the freewriters have the daily prompt.

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  ·  last month (edited)

I don't think it's strictly either or. It's a paradox proportionally related to the importance of whatever needs doing. The more urgent it is the more lethargic I'll feel.

You mean the pressure is hard to deal with?

  ·  last month (edited)

It's more about my own expectations and getting overly ambitious. Like I come up with an idea and get sidetracked drawing mindmaps or whatever, which in turn either leads to new ideas or me obsessing about the technicalities of properly arranging the format. Before you know it I'm stapling a bunch of transparent envelopes to a piece of cardboard I tore from an old file folder. Fast forward to me sitting on top of a heap of crumpled mindmaps wondering about office supplies and what I was trying to do in the first place. Then I usually I just end up doing something else instead.

That sounds familiar 🤣

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