The next cause of writer's block, I like to call bringing the wrong perspective to the writing. You see this a lot with people who went through academia or some sort of engineering or scientific or mathematical discipline. And they used to writing in a really passive long, verbose way, like the writing is, it's very dull to read, because that's what academia expects, it expects people to use really long fancy words it expects. Third Person expects passive writing. it expects all kinds of things. If this is your background, and you sit down to write a short story, if you accidentally bring that perspective to your writing, it'll be really hard to write anything.

And of course, it goes the other way too. If you're used to writing short stories with lots of flowery pose, lots of active writing, and you're trying to write an essay or a thesis. can get very difficult to even get started. Because you write a paragraph and you just know it feels wrong. The best way to overcome this is to think about really good examples of the writing you're trying to recreate. So if you're trying to write a short story, what are some excellent short stories out there, maybe take a moment to just quickly skim through one.

And the idea is not to copy anything. But to kind of just keep that sort of that that energy. That's sort of the quality of that writing in the back of your mind. And if you write from that place, you'll write something that's unique. You'll write something that's yours and valuable. what it'll do is it'll become from that style that you just love so much.