11 WHAT TO DO WHEN THE WORDS WON’T COME
We’ve all heard of writer’s block, the famous problem where the words won’t come when we need them to. And many of us are familiar with the feeling of staring at a blank Word document without the faintest idea of how to start. But the evil powers of writer’s block have been vastly overhyped, and it’s a problem that you can easily beat.
In this chapter you will learn how to tame writer’s block – and why sometimes it’s better to go to the gym or have a biscuit.
HAVE A DEADLINE
Writers like to joke and moan about deadlines – the late Douglas Adams famously said that what he loved about deadlines was ‘the whooshing noise they make as they go by’ (Adams, 2003) – but reasonable deadlines help concentrate the ...
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