Perhaps there is no such a thing as "work" when it comes to writing or to any
other create pursuit. The word itself may be the problem.
Work implies production. Can we really say a writer "produces" a
book (I'm not taking into account penpushers)? Is there such as creative
production? Shouldn't we be talking in terms of creative "discovery" or
"timing." (By the latter I mean: art as tool that allows us to reshape our
understanding of the world.)
Perhaps one suffering from "writer's block" is actually suffering
from the inability to forget, and by forgetting, to create. A musician, for
instance, has to first learn the music from the score, and then to forget
that the score exists in order to "make the work happen" when s/he comes play
it.
Perhaps one suffering from "writer's block" is just trying to play
with words/concepts without infusing them with the stuff that "makes words
happen" as more than words, more than units of time and meaning and memory.
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