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- From: cgates@mitre.org (Curt Gates)
- Subject: Re: HELP!!! Writer's Block!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.123133.17692@linus.mitre.org>
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- References: <1992Jul30.091835.1@lure.latrobe.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 12:31:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.091835.1@lure.latrobe.edu.au>
- miuvdd@lure.latrobe.edu.au writes:
- > So if anyone out there has any ideas how I might overcome this evil
- > foe, I would much appreciate it!
-
- Maybe a hot shower would help -- *without* a tape recorder, paper and
- pencil, or other recording device to reinforce the block. (See recent
- thread on bad places to have good ideas.)
-
- You might also work with the clustering technique developed by Gabrielle
- Rico. She describes it in her book Writing the Natural Way.
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- I worked as a technical writer ... editing manuals ... on how to dispose
- of sewage in permafrost; we all had to wear white shirts -- that was
- mandatory -- and I was fired at the end of two weeks for spending too much
- time staring out the window.
- (Edward Abbey)
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