"When you allow tension to get to you, your fingers and your arms stiffen and finally the brain tightens. You now have a case of nerves and, in extreme cases, writer's block. Writer's blocks are mind spasms that impair thinking and the actual physical movement of moving a pencil or typing. Writer's block is an occupational cramp experienced by musicians, surgeons, actors, and golfers as well as authors.
Writer's block commonly occurs when an author believes they should and must write something. Cigarettes, aspirin, Alka Seltzer, and whiskey are of no benefit. The great entertainer W.C. Fields once said, "I took a cup of booze to quiet my nerves. I repeated the treatment until my nerves got so quiet I couldn't move."
Desperate writers seeking advice on what to do when suffering writer's block are often told to do "nothing". The response of "nothing" is a little tongue-in-cheek humor sprinkled with a bit of wisdom, because what is implied is that the nervousness and writer's block are in the head. It is all psychological."
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