Sometimes I get really busy and don't read all the blogs on have in my RSS reader. I usually try and go back later to catch up but that's a lot and it's hard to do. So, sometimes I don't. I love Tony Pierce's blog and I've skipped it in the past and regretted it. Today's post on writers block just made me create a new folder of shit never ever ever ever to skip. So far, he's the only blog in there.

"to me writers block happens when you are afraid to say the things that you want to say. it happens when you self edit yourself before you start writing or while you are writing. it happens when youre trying to be a perfectionist. when youre trying to write to one hard-to-reach person instead of to a willing and wide audience. and it happens when youre confused as to who your audience is.

to me writers block is the devil whispering 'you suck, this sucks, you cant write, nobody cares, so and so has said this before and better, bloggings dumb, your blogs dumb, youre dumb,'"

That's some of the best advice he's ever given. I know I write a hell of a lot better when I just vomit words on the page rather than stopping and reconsidering every bit of it. Maybe not better sentences, or better grammar, but better thoughts and feelings. Which is really what I'm trying to put out there, and I think that's the stuff that is interesting. It's the stuff that's interesting to me on other people's blogs anyway.