Mark Pryor
This may sound odd, but writer's block is a luxury I can't afford... I have a full time job as a prosecutor, I have three very active kids, a lovely wife who needs some attention... and a writing career! In the few moments that I have to write, I simply can't afford to sit there wringing my hands about how hard it is.
Funnily enough, the book I'm writing at the moment, the sixth in the Hugo Marston series, is difficult. It's not flowing like some of the others did. But I don't beat myself up for that, I don't torture myself. Instead, I just sit down and write, grind out a few words and make them into a sentence. Grind out a few more and a few more... and there I have a paragraph.
The other thing is this: I'm so very lucky to be doing this, that I try as hard as I can to reject negativity. That can mean bad reviews (not many, of course!) or what other people call writer's block. I simply won't allow it!
Funnily enough, the book I'm writing at the moment, the sixth in the Hugo Marston series, is difficult. It's not flowing like some of the others did. But I don't beat myself up for that, I don't torture myself. Instead, I just sit down and write, grind out a few words and make them into a sentence. Grind out a few more and a few more... and there I have a paragraph.
The other thing is this: I'm so very lucky to be doing this, that I try as hard as I can to reject negativity. That can mean bad reviews (not many, of course!) or what other people call writer's block. I simply won't allow it!
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