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The Irony Of Writer's Block #shorts

2 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, Nicolas Cole argues that writer's block is not a mysterious creative ailment but simply a manifestation of fear or indecision about making a choice in writing. He explains that when a writer feels stuck, they are actually grappling with which narrative direction to take, and because multiple options can be equally valid, the writer defaults to the safest (and worst) option: doing nothing. Cole emphasizes the irony that the only truly wrong choice is to pick nothing, and encourages writers to make any decision—any direction—because taking action is always better than remaining inert.

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the concept of writer's block, your challenge to sit there and actually produce something. What is writer's block? Writer's block is really just the name that we've given for "I'm afraid or don't want to make a choice." So if you're writing and you go, "Oh, all of a sudden I have writer's block," what's really happening is you're going, "I don't know what choice to make in this moment. I don't know if the story I'm telling should go down this tangent or this tangent." And if you're operating from a place of competence and they're both potential right answers, then neither one is actually more right wrong than the other one. The irony of writer's block— writer's block is like, "I have decided to do the only thing that is truly the wrong answer, which is pick nothing at all." You would be way better off just picking something, because the choice of something is always better than choosing to do nothing.