You think you have writer’s block. You don’t. It’s an excuse for something else:
You don’t know what to write about. You don’t think you’re good enough. You don’t know enough about the subject.
The solution? Write anyway. Anything. Badly. Just get something on paper for now and fix it later.
Write quickly, without stopping to think. Get it all out of your head, no matter how cringe-worthy it might sound.
You can re-write it, as many times as you want. You can do more research. You can take a terrible page and make it better.
But you can’t edit a blank page.
There have many times in my career when I have had issues completing a writing project. I’ve had issues with starting, too. The solution has always been to do it anyway, promising myself that I didn’t have to show it anyone until I was happy with it.
When I gave myself permission to write badly and get a first draft done, I almost always found that I had more to say than I thought I did and I had actually done a pretty good job of saying it.
Writer’s block is no more a thing than lawyer’s block. You may not like your client or their case. You may not know the best tactics. You may think you’re in over your head. But you move forward anyway and you figure it out.
Get help if you need it. Confer with another attorney or hire an editor. But move forward, because you must, and because there’s no such thing as writer’s block.
