# writer's block appears a false problem one often invented by the _realer_ false problem called being a writer if i don't want writer's block then i first mustn't succumb to the mainstream cultural notion of being a writer - i'll try simply calling it something else entirely my term is researcher or big scientist i'll regard writing as just another artist's tool re-regard both writing and writers as nothing special i instantly feel better whenever i write _less_ and not as a writer - hashtag antiwork and now some slightly condescending sounding advice from a writer perhaps thrown out from a position of unrecognized privilege and success > no-one ever got anywhere by blaming other people. it's not the publisher's fault for not seeing the promise in your book. it's not the fault of other writers for not being successful in your genre. it's not the reader's fault for not paying enough attention to you > joanne harris bluesky um thanks joanne for that unsolicited bit of timeless literary wisdom doesn't sound remotely ahistorical (systematically failing to take into account unequal power relationships at large in society) in the slightest that's your opening line yet you basically just advise fellow writers and potential writers to shut up and stop whining artists fully aware they're constantly being screwed by the pink-owned publishing system dislike being gaslighted by the rich and successful into not correctly apportioning blame precisely where it needs it mind you at least you correctly hate the hateful rowling // republic of bob