Writer’s Block

A friend of mine, a brilliant Austro-libertarian theorist, just wrote me saying she is having writer’s block. Here is my response, advice, to her and all people suffering from this malady: On curing writer’s block. My main difficulty with this is a perfectionistic hang-up. What I write must be perfect, and, since I’ll never do any such thing, I won’t write at all, I can’t write. So, I use these thoughts to help me: The NEXT thing I write will be perfect. This one, I’ll just write (and then of course I apply this aphorism to the next one too). … Continue reading Writer’s Block