I dislike the term “writers’ block.” It’s the layman term for a lull in writing used by people who think that writing a book is as easy as writing an essay for school. It’s the way in which they try and make sense of them working a day job and this “layabout” not doing what he/she says they’re supposed to be doing.

Make sense?

So I tend to use other terms to describe the lull’s and stoppages to my writing.

One was writers’ ennui, and it fit perfectly (scroll down a few posts for that one). Another one is writers’ (road) block, and it’s pretty much not the writers’ fault. Just like a road block to a driver, it isn’t the driver’s fault they’ve run into road works, it’s just happened.

And so is writing in a world where “life” seems to be all to frequent.

Don’t get me wrong; writing blocks happen and I’ve suffered all to many. But sometime’s other things get in the way that stop all manner of writing’s, not to mention thought. For as much as there are times where you can’t write, there are doubly more where you can’t think of what to write.

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