Blogger or Writer: What say you?

My favourite writing site on the web, Yeah Write, has this fascinating tagline on their Facebook page: ‘For writers who blog and bloggers who write.’

This got me thinking (I mean, I’m always thinking, because well I am human, but I digress), about which category most of us would fall under.

Here’s my analysis; feel free to add your comments and thoughts too.

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Writer’s Block? 3 Ways you can beat the dreaded enemy of writers

Writer’s Block? 3 Ways you can beat the dreaded enemy of writers

Some never have it. 

Some are always moaning about it.

Others pretend that it doesn’t affect them.

Yet others power through and do it anyway.

All of the above groups of people have faced Writer’s Block, at some point or the other. The thing is, it doesn’t even necessarily mean that you are stuck for ideas. No, that’s just one meaning of Writer’s Block.

What do you do when you want to blog/write but the ideas don’t come out the way you want them to? There’s this germ of an incredible concept sitting in your brain, waiting for release. Sadly, that defeatist attitude creeps in, the one that says , ‘You’re worthless. You know you can’t say it right. So don’t bother wasting words and making a fool of yourself.’ That germ just curls up into a shell, dissolving into a cocoon of self-pity and prefers the darkness of the mind to the light of the written word. Continue reading “Writer’s Block? 3 Ways you can beat the dreaded enemy of writers”