There is No Such Thing as Writer's Block

By Honoree Corder and Dino Marino

You stare at the screen...
The vastness of the white page mocks you.

Why won't the words come?

Honorée Corder is a prolific writer with more than fifty books (including You Must Write a Book and Write Your First Nonfiction Bo

• Language: English
• Publisher: Honoree Enterprises Publishing, LLC
• Release date: Oct 16, 2023
• ISBN: 9781947665309

Honoree Corder

Honorée Corder is the author of dozens of books, including You Must Write a Book, The Prosperous Writer book series, Like a Boss book series, Vision to Reality, Business Dating, The Successful Single Mom book series, If Divorce is a Game, These are the Rules, and The Divorced Phoenix. She is also Hal Elrod’s business partner in The Miracle Morning book series. Honorée coaches business professionals, writers, and aspiring non-fiction authors who want to publish their books to bestseller status create a platform, and develop multiple streams of income. She also does all sorts of other magical things, and her badassery is legendary. You can find out more at HonoreeCorder.com.

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Introduction

Hello, Reader!

It’s so cool of you to pick up this book. I’m curious—are you reading this because you want to believe there’s no writer’s block? Or you want to eliminate yours for good? Or maybe because you can’t believe I don’t think there is writer’s block?

I’d love to know, so please go ahead and send me an email: [e-mail]. I hope it’s the beginning of an awesome, long-term conversation between us.

Now, let’s talk about writer’s block. Obviously, there is such a thing, or it wouldn’t have a name. Right? Right.

However.

In my experience, and I’ve had a lot of experience, there’s really no reason for any writer to have writer’s block. I don’t have it. I’ve never had it, and I can give some reasons for that fact. Most of the professional writers I know don’t have it, and many don’t believe in it!

And, in this book, I will show you how to get rid of it if you think you’ve got it. Plus, I’m going to help you to never experience it ever again.

That’s a big promise, and I promise to deliver.

Note: If you don’t have writer’s block, there’s no need for you to get it. Skip to Chapters Five through Eight to learn some ways to crank your word count into high gear.

Have you ever heard of chef’s block, flight captain’s block, or garbage collector’s block?

Of course not. Imagine you were onboard an aircraft, as I am at this moment, and the captain came over the loudspeaker and said, "Hey, y’all, I’d really love to fly this plane, but I just can’t even today." What would you do? (Can you imagine?)

Would you say, Yeah, okay, buddy, go on and hit the lounge. Don’t mind us and our intended destination. We’re all good! Take a nap. Binge on some Netflix. We’ll chill until you’re into it.

Noooooo.

You’d be white hot like I’ve seen some delayed travelers today, demanding Captain Excuses pull up those big kid britches and fly the flippin’ plane.

Right? Yup, right again.

Somewhere along the way (I talk about this in-depth in Chapter One), you might have gotten the idea that writer’s block was a thing for you and allowed that potent power of suggestion to invite you to dance.

You might have hit a brick wall, where one minute the words were flowing, and the next minute they didn’t come. And you thought, Oh, I must have writer’s block. OH NO! I have writer’s block!

And you did what others shared they do when they have writer’s block. Procrastinated. Watched television. Talked about your writer’s block.

Lord have mercy; you might have even gone on Facebook and found other blocked writers. Of course, misery loves company, so the minute you mentioned it, other writers jumped on that bandwagon.

I’ve got writer’s block. Anyone else?

Girl, you know it! I haven’t been able to write for weeks!

Yeah, I’m blocked, too. Binged on Game of Thrones. Have you seen it?

Doesn’t everyone have writer’s block? I’ve been working on my book for three years!

You were stuck. Maybe you are stuck. You’re not sure what to do, so you found this book, hoping it could help.

Well, I’ve got you. I wrote it because, for the love of all that’s holy, I want writers to do what they love to do: write.

Write with abandon.

Write the words as fast as they flow.

Write because it is what they—you—were born to do.

Write for a living—a great living!

Which means we’ve got work to do.

"Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to ‘write through it,’ because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work—

for you or for the reader."

—Orson Scott Card

Chapter One

A Brief History of Writer’s Block

(and why you don't need it)

What if you’d never heard of writer’s block? What if when you sit down to write, the words flow from your fingers as if by magic?

Can you imagine a world where you write prolifically, continuously, and ceaselessly? Please do. I want you to!

Is it possible to always—or almost always—have an unending flow of words at the exact time you need them?

I believe the answer is yes. I know it’s an unpopular opinion. Writer’s block doesn’t exist—and yet, here we are, having this as-yet and still one-sided conversation.

In my experience, and in the experience of dozens, nay, hundreds of writers I know personally, writer’s block is not a thing.

In my research for this book, I read an article that proclaimed, Writers will say they have no writer’s block, but in hushed tones, admit they do.

I say the opposite is also true. Writers will say, Sure, writer’s block is a thing, but not for me. When I sit down to write, I write.

I have the same experience. When I sit down to write, I write. The words flow until I run out of time to write. I run out of time, not words.

Well, sometimes I run out of brain power, but that’s not writer’s block.

I know how I got here, and in every single chapter of this book, I’m going to do my best to help you get here, too. Let’s get into it, so you can get out of it.

What’s the difference between those who have it and those who don’t? Great question, if I do say so myself. The difference starts with understanding, and an understanding leads to a new belief. New beliefs lead to new behaviors, and new behaviors lead to new outcomes.

In order to break free from something—anything—that’s holding us back, understanding it can help immensely. When we understand a block (yes, including writer’s block), and see it for what it is, very often, we can leave it behind.

Writer’s block seems dark and heavy, holding back otherwise brilliant creators from writing all they can write and being all they can be.

I think it’s time to shine a light on that dark place and illuminate it forever. I’ve done it, and so can you.

Let’s jump into the Wayback Machine for a few, shall we?

Most people are aware of the psychosomatic condition known as hypochondria, where an individual has a preoccupying fear they have a serious medical condition despite proper medical evaluations and assurances that their health