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Writer's Block

Much has been written about Writer's Block - the inability to sustain a productive writing routine. Many people claim that it does not actually exist, or at least, if it does, it should be considered in terms of laziness, procrastination or both. Dentists or surgeons do not wander off in the middle of their work claiming to be blocked, so why should writers allow themselves this luxury?

It is nevertheless apparent to anyone who writes or who creates music and art, that there are some times when the creative juices do not flow. As soon as creative projects become a chore, then we can generally find excuses not to do them. This can produce additional anxiety, and a viscious circle of self-criticism and lack of output can result.

Here are links to websites that explain the condition and offer insight and practical advice to deal with it. Click on the titles below:

 

 

 

     

Inspiration for Writers (- these are changed regularly)

The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business--or almost anywhere else for that matter.
Lee Iacocca

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier

There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Henry Ford

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.
Elbert Hubbard

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Author Unknown

Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
Josh Billings

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.
Henry W. Longfellow

To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first.
Shakespeare

Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
W.C. Fields

Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow.
Doug Firebaugh

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

Just as appetite comes by eating so work brings inspiration
Igor Stravinsky

What will nurture the creative vision necessary to turn around a world possibly heading toward its own destruction? Music.
Lorin Hollander

"The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention."
Julia Cameron

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)

If you can imagine it you can create it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
William Arthur Ward

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
Samuel Johnson

Life is a cup to be filled not drained.
Anonymous

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you.
Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

There is only one success--to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Christopher Morley

Failures do what is tension relieving, while winners do what is goal achieving.
Dennis Waitley

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure--which is: Try to please everybody.
Herbert Bayard Swope

Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
Voltaire

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

 
     

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