This article makes some interesting points but if you want to be a professional fiction writer you don't want to just write what you believe or what comes to mi

This article makes some interesting points but if you want to be a professional fiction writer you don't want to just write what you believe or what comes to mind, you want to write in a way that meets some hypothetical bar of quality or that some hypothetical target audience would enjoy. What if I look deep down inside myself and what comes out are boring Star Trek reruns? I'm not going to write those, I'm going to have writer's block until I come up with something more original. "We've all seen that movie or read that book before" is a perfectly valid reason not to write something.