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No Such Thing as Writer's Block · The Daily Writer

• 0:09
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Writer, where we share a lesson each day to help you cultivate the habits for creative success.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: In the Pixar movie Finding Nemo, we meet Marlon, a clown fish who's looking for his son Nemo.
• 0:23
  SPEAKER_00: On his way to find him, he meets Dory, a black and blue tang fish who has short-term memory loss.
• 0:30
  SPEAKER_00: In spite of her limited mental capacity, she gives Marlon a great piece of advice that eventually helps him locate his son.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: She says, just keep swimming.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: This is great advice not only for finding lost kids, but also for finding lost words.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_00: When you feel blocked, when you feel like the words just won't come, remember the words of the novelist Jody Picult.
• 0:52
  SPEAKER_00: She said this.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: I don't believe in writer's block.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: Think about it.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: When you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due?
• 1:03
  SPEAKER_00: Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: If you have a limited amount of time to write, you just sit down and do it.
• 1:10
  SPEAKER_00: You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page.
• 1:15
  SPEAKER_00: You can't edit a blank page.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_00: The very best thing you can do for your writing career is just keep writing.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: No matter how bad it is, you can always improve it later.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just get the words down and keep on moving.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: Those blocks that are keeping you from writing are just like Pixar characters.
• 1:32
  SPEAKER_00: They may seem real, but they don't actually exist.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: Hey, thanks so much for checking out today's episode.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_00: As always, I truly appreciate you listening.
• 1:42
  SPEAKER_00: As you probably realize, I pour my heart and my soul into this podcast, and I really, truly enjoy creating it and writing it and recording it and all that stuff.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: And so it means the world whenever people listen to it.
• 1:53
  SPEAKER_00: So on today's episode, we've talked about writer's block and how do you stay creative.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_00: And one of the very best ways to do that is being part of a great community.
• 2:02
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• 2:08
  SPEAKER_00: This is an amazing group of people that are doing some really, really cool things right now.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: And the way that this came about was that for years I searched for the kind of group that I would want to be a part of, but I could never find it.
• 2:20
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• 2:26
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• 2:36
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• 2:41
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks so much, and I'll see you tomorrow.