So let's talk about writer's block. Let's say that you sat down at your desk, you hit the keyboard in front of you, you have your plan and you're ready to write. And just for whatever reason, just the words aren't coming. Now, a lot of people out there who think that writer's block is caused by emotion, like it's caused by stress, or it's caused by a lack of creativity or something else like this. For most people, stress will actually get them to to write more, which is why so many people like using the deadline approach. And getting close to the deadline.

You just can't help but right. Now, stress, though, isn't isn't necessarily the best motivator and it's certainly not one that I use. Either way, that's not really what's causing writer's block. I dug into the research a little while ago, because I was curious. I thought academics do a lot of writing and so do their students. Someone will have had to have done The research with writer's block.

And it turns out some people did. And there's some really good research out there on this. One of them identified seven mental strategies that people use that end up causing writer's block. And if you follow any of these strategies, then that will explain why you sit down and you just do end up being defeated by a blank page. Once you know what your strategy is, though, you know how to overcome it. So let's look at these seven strategies these seven incorrect bad habits now