This is K.M. Wyland and you are listening to the six hundred tenth episode of the Helping Writers Become Authors

Podcast. I hope you enjoyed this week's episode, six lessons learned from four

years of Writers Block. To be a writer, one must do two things, right and perhaps surprisingly

not right. Usually we champion the first and demonize the second with much fear and

trembling giving it dread labels such as writers block. The implication is that for a writer not writing is about as bad

as it gets. The truth however is nuanced. I have been waiting to do this episode for a very long time, for

years in fact. I have been waiting because I knew it was an episode I could not

properly record until I overcame my own lengthy

writer's block and could speak about the lessons it was teaching me.

From my perspective on this side of the desert, I know it is a landscape I did not traverse alone, many riders.

I even dare to say most writers experience significant riders block sooner or later. I am recording this episode now. significant writers And also for those who may encounter this phenomenon later on.

Perhaps you will remember this episode and take heart,

not just from the lessons I will share in a moment,

but simply from the fact that my writer's block came to an end. And so will yours.

For four years, starting in the fall of 2018, I lived with significant writer's block.

It was my first such experience,

and I felt bewildered by it, frightened,

and often ashamed.

After all, I was an established, published writer

who made her living, not just writing novels but

teaching others how to do so. How could I possibly have writers block? It felt so

threatening on so many levels.

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