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The Myth of Writer's Block - by eliza mclamb

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If you have the displeasure of publicly identifying yourself as a writer, you will quickly learn that there are very few material struggles that come with the title. The toils of writing are embarassing and useless — a writer does not exhaust themselves by performing an emergency tracheotomy or helping low-income people get a voter ID or loading other people’s garbage into the back of trucks. We think ourselves into misery, and the “tortured” writer is an extremely convenient idea for the most self-aggrandizing amongst us. Actually, all of the things that make this process so hard are in fact just out of view, unknowable and therefore larger and more oppressive than the challenges of other disciplines… Many writers enjoy feeling tortured and frequently create environments where they feel horrible so that they may imagine themselves more productive and prophetic under pressure. And in every interview, of course, the question about the writer’s one true enemy arrives: how do you get out

The Myth of Writer's Block and the importance of shutting the fuck up eliza mclamb Mar 30, 2024 696 24 125 Share If you have the displeasure of publicly identifying yourself as a writer, you will quickly learn that there are very few material struggles that come with the title. The toils of writing are embarassing and useless — a writer does not exhaust themselves by performing an emergency tracheotomy or helping low-income people get a voter ID or loading other people’s garbage into the back of trucks. We think ourselves into misery, and the “tortured” writer is an extremely convenient idea f

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