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Writer’s block? Read!

Clair shares a tip for writing even when you don’t feel like it:

Writing for a living has trained me to write anything – no matter what. But of course. it is tougher. Writing three blog entries a day and editing other people’s entries (grammar, etc) could be quite painful too.

How do I get to write and finish up what I have to?

<drumroll>

I read. :D

Yeah, simple answer for me. I read and talk about things that got me interested. If not about the article itself but maybe the circumstances around it, the person who wrote it, how I could relate, etc.

On my personal blogs, I don’t write when I don’t feel like sharing the very deep thoughts that are in my head. But when I find something I feel totally interested in or I need a break, I write :) It’s therapy, in a sense. Even though this is what I do for a living ;)

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Random Japanese sentence: かわいそうにその猫は餓死寸前だった。 The poor cat was on the verge of starvation.

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