Writer's Block and How to Read Painful Fiction

Sorry, I’ve been sick for the last few days. I’m feeling better now - better enough to write anyway. When I was sick I simply could not write at all. Of course I wrote notes and comments, but I couldn’t write any posts. I get blocked fairly often. But I never get blocked on notes or comments. I only get blocked on posts.

I don’t mean to brag here, but for the most part, the only writers I’ve ever known to get blocked were good writers, often but not always very good writers. I’m not going to say if I’m any good or not, but people have been saying it my whole life, so perhaps it is true? Lousy writers simply never get blocked, yet some are quite prolific. And here we have the human conundrum, do we not? The best think they’re they suck, and the suckiest think they’re top of the pops. The most guilt-ridden people barely do anything wrong, while the reprobates feel nary a twinge of guilt.

I wonder if artists get blocked too? You see, very good writers are perfectionists. And no matter ho…