In the inaugural episode of the Love, Academic Writing podcast, the Love Doctors, Allison and Lee, talk about this week’s writing but: BUT WRITER’S BLOCK!

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“Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but most of all, endurance.” ~James Baldwin

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Is writer’s block real? What exactly is the “block”? Did you put it there or did someone else? Is the block depression, in which case maybe you need a break. Or is it just that you aren’t sure of your argument, in which case you need to write. Are you in Jesus’s cave or Plato’s? If you asked Eve Sedgwick or Audre Lorde if they had writer’s block while they were dying of cancer they probably would have said, “I have writer’s block all the time, that’s the whole reason I write.”

When you’re thinking (or bitching to someone else), that you have writer’s block, think about what you actually mean: 

• I don’t know what I’m trying to say
• This essay is a mess
• I’m never going to figure this out
• Nobody cares about this
• I don’t have enough theory. 

Connect with Allison @postphdtheblog or at allisonharbin.com

Connect with Lee @rhetoriclee or leempierce.com