Writers Block

- Writers Block -
by
Leo Hunter
All Rights Reserved 2007
Published by
Able Limited Editions
www.ablelimitededitions.co.uk



What's writer's block? - Well, let's start this brief explanation by getting what all pitiful rivals, in particular, say and public probably perceive it to be kicked well and 'truthfully' out of the equation. Writer's block isn't the broad (vague) notion that 'Oh well. I just can't think of a single darn thing to say. I'm outta here!' sort of non-sense. Or 'Darn it. I can't think of what the word is'. Or 'It's on the tip of my tongue.' - Sound familiar? Yeah. Of course it's familiar, as religiously portrayed by your captor rival, looking over your shoulders from behind as they wait tirelessly with some clinical ardour for those bells to chime out your deadline.

No. Writer's block isn't the broad demon of those blank pages of timeous recall. After all, the vast majority of writers are actually 'commissioned' by someone who has a specific objective (answer/conclusion) in mind. And it makes no difference whatsoever if writers have decades of corroborated research material under their belt on the tabled issue and memorized every detail. They will be struck down with writers block; if their conclusion conflicts in any way with the 'commissioners' objective.

Yeah. You know how it goes. You've been to university to get the 'essential' qualification/s to write and be published – the qualification/s simply awarded on the basis that you answered all coded assignment questions the relevant way/s to reach the codified conclusion/s. Or maybe you gained a qualification through similar in-house training. No matter.

Now it's simple for adept writers to wonder down the road of commissioned objectivity; if they have no conscience, or fear of any subjective consequence of the objectivity. But the fact remains that most aspiring writers do have a conscience; but fear, by experience or hierarchal convention (immunized belief), never being paid for their conscious efforts and or 'commissioned' ever again., far less published of course portrayed as having nothing whatsoever of [value] to say to readers (the public audience). - And you of course know 'value' really means 'politically relevant', despite public perceptions of some monetary gain.

No. Writers block's decidedly not what's portrayed 'classically' as being some forgetfulness, or some lack of imagination, or any other said endowment-based reason why writers suffer writers block. - Writers block's the unavoidable war between the retention of one's own reasonable conscience and passive acceptance of unreasonable objectivity of one's own said employers/commissioners/editors/publishers. No more. No less.

Write on folks. But watch your back if you write the whole truth. Commissioners loathe it. And stay legal.