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I think that every writer will go through writer’s block at some point or another. I believe I am suffering from it right now. As I type this, my family is arguing in the living room while the Reds game is on, which can be quite a distraction.
The problem with writer’s block when you are freelance writing for a living, is that if you don’t make a hundred and eighty bucks by next Friday, they aren’t really going to understand or give a shit if you just didn’t feel like writing anything for the previous week.
How I am trying to get around my writers block is to write something for this blog. It isn’t work for hire, and I really don’t make any money of note from it, so it doesn’t really matter if it is low quality work. I think it is working, because as I type this the words I need to put down are flowing through me.
I think this is enough for now, I need to get back to work.
I write SEO articles for a living. I can’t say that it is extremely lucrative, but I do enjoy what I do, and I am very good at it.
I have also tried my hand at writing fiction. Writing fiction is more fun than writing fact based articles, but thus far I have not found a venue that I am comfortable with, nor have I found a way to be compensated for my work as well as I am compensated for writing SEO articles. It isn’t that my fiction writing skills are not good, it is just that I am afraid to put so much time into something that might not make me what I need to survive.
I have talked to many writers, and read many interviews with writers that say once a story gets moving, it takes off on a life of it’s own. It is almost as if the writer is “channeling” the story.
I agree with Alan Moore that writing is a form of magic. When a writer creates a world for the reader from nothing more than his imagination, there is no other explanation besides magic. Do not forget that a fictional work can effect the real world in wonderful ways. Even the fact that you are reading this is a testament to the works of science fiction writers of the past.
But I like to eat every day, and my baby needs a new pair of shoes, so I write SEO articles for a living. However, as I keep writing I will be looking for ways to expand my craft, so perhaps one day you may read a work of fiction with my name underneath the title.
