Maybe not. But you can certainly type something. Even if it’s just “what the @#$% do i think i’m doing i can’t do this” over and over again. Eventually that gets boring, and useful words start to come out.
That’s why the Internet is such a trap, because chatting with witty intelligent strangers never gets boring enough to force you to do something else. I highly recommend pen and paper in such cases.
Best resources for fighting procrastination, writer’s block, and related maladies:
- Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way – morning pages, artist’s dates, to provide listening practice and fresh inputs, respectively.
- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird – sh*tty first drafts and the value of a one-inch picture frame
- Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones – keep the hand moving
- Forward Motion Writers’ Community – fmwriters.com/community/dc/dcboard.php – best writers’ site on the Internet, with lots of advice, inspiration, and daily exercises (although note above comment on the Internet trap).
Good luck!
Katherine