People that write for a living: Do you ever get scared that yr just incapable of writing anymore?

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This is starting to happen to me everytime I have to do some bigger sized article for work...it's like it seems so overwhelming and I don't know how to begin...then i start suspecting that maybe it will just "turn off", like words just won't be able to come, and I start wasting all this time on boards (like now)....ugh...it's scary.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 13 November 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

not a problem.

― Tony Parsons (Enrique), Sunday, 13 November 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

Matt, you just wrote a few lines. Proof that you are able to write, no? :-) Then again, I realize that's silly of me to say. I think maybe it's easier to break down the writing process maybe? How do you write a long article? Maybe you need to approach it differently?

― Nathalie is in Da Base II Dark (stevie nixed), Sunday, 13 November 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

The key to finding words is first getting a grip on the subject matter. Once you've grasped the substance the words should just follow like lambs behind a bellwether.

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 13 November 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

I find it hard to write when I'm going through a stage of improvement. Look at everything I type and think nope, nope, nope. Then I look back weeks later, and what I wrote was fine. Just means your standards have got higher, perhaps. If writing is taking more thought than it usually does then, er, you're thinking more.

― Zoe Espera (Espera), Sunday, 13 November 2005 20:46 (twenty years ago)

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can, I think I can

― The Little Huk-L That Could (Huk-L), Monday, 14 November 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

This completely happens to me. I've been conditioned to write brief, bullet-style stuff that I'm worried that I can't put together a longer, more detailed piece anymore.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

If it's something you need to quote other people for, speak to the people and collect the quotes. Then build it around the quotes. Easier said than done I guess.

― beanz (beanz), Monday, 14 November 2005 15:54 (twenty years ago)

If it ever comes easy ALL THE TIME, then you probably have lost writing "talent".

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Monday, 14 November 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

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