The magical first draft.
During the past centuries writers have complained bitterly about the amount of writer’s block that has frustrated them and reduced their writing output. Even today writers have the same complaint.
With the arrival of the Internet it has produced a new breed of writers called Bloggers.
The Bloggers range from casual writers to more serious ones who rival many of the magazine and newspaper writers.
There are very few of them who complain of any writer’s block. Many of the serious writers state that there is no such thing as writer’s block and that it never really existed. They maintain that these writers who complain about it are really guilty of trying to write the perfect piece of writing whenever they start to write.
The serious Bloggers does no such thing. They insist on just writing down their blogs until it is finished into what could be called the Magical First Draft.
Once they have this first draft they can edit it until they have the final draft they are satisfied with, and post it.
Going from first to final draft could take a lot of editing and polishing time and these bloggers usually use the admonition, “Perfection is the enemy of production.” They do not lower their standards just increase their production.
For them there is indeed no such thing as writer’s block except as an excuse for writing silence.
