a84c130b_writer_s_block__Is_it_because___
[If so, try this:] Lower your standards. Really. Don't let your brain trick you into thinking that every word you write has to be perfect. Read author Anne Lamott's description of her "SHITTY FIRST DRAFTS" and believe her when she says that a first draft doesn't have to be good, it just has to be finished. Then you can then get on with making it better. Are you a good talker? Then, talk out your paper. Find a patient friend who will spend a half hour while you talk through your ideas on what you're going to say. Have that person take notes. Talking is easier than writing for most people, so use it to ease into the writing task. Don't have a patient friend to talk to? Talk your essay into a tape recorder. Then play it back and take notes as you listen. Don't have a tape recorder? Buy yourself some dictation software like DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING and talk your essay through. Let the computer turn your spoken ideas into written words. Don't have confidence in your academic writing style? Write your ideas down first in the form of a letter to a friend or a memo to a colleague. Once you have the comfort of knowing what you want to say, it's not difficult to edit the ideas into a more formal style. Don't know how to start that first sentence of the first paragraph? Skip it. Start writing somewhere in the middle of the paper, at whatever point where you feel you have something to say. The reader has to read the introduction first but you don't have to write it first. Worried that you can't complete the whole paper? Tell yourself that you're simply going to write one section(whatever is easiest). If you find yourself in the zone by that point, you can always keep going but in the meantime you're not distracted by worries of not getting completely finished. [Is it because...] 
...you just know you're not a good writer, never have been, never will be?
writer's block
Is it because...