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There is probably a grain of truth in there but if a lot of people think a thing (ex. writing) is hard and someone is saying, "Actually it's easy if you do this
by intrepidhero 5y ago
There is probably a grain of truth in there but if a lot of people think a thing (ex. writing) is hard and someone is saying, "Actually it's easy if you do this one thing", I feel pretty confident they're selling something.
- kayodelycaon 5y agoI’m going to be a little more charitable and assume that the author found writing easy once they got over their roadblocks. Assuming everyone faces the problems the same way you did is a common failing of humanity. This is why most advice fails to work. The advice was right for a specific person at a specific time when they where ready to hear it and able to understand it.
- zopa 5y agoThere's a lot to be said for a grain of truth and a magnifying glass. Mostly I don't want the whole beach all at once. Yes, of course, not all writer's block and it's not the whole picture and it won't work for everyone, and on and on. Everything is always more complicated; we knew that going in, that's a given. It's a ~1000-word article; it can't be the whole truth of anything. But I'd rather read one clear insightful treatment of some of the truth than a mess of qualifiers.