Writer's block

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I should be writing.
For the past couple of days, I have been staring at the proverbial blank page, which in its modern form, is a word processing software screen with a blinking cursor. I start writing something, which I immediately dislike and is dutifully erased. There’s been several iteractions of that one. I am trying to write something, anything, but very little is coming out. That’s why I decided to rant in this blog post, if only to organize myself and get some motivation.
There are several project on the way, some of them more developed than others. Here’s what I got, in order of “completeness”:
**Two research papers, already revised by the journals. I know exactly what to do with those, but I have to wait until the semester starts and I have access to my minions.
**A children’s book (yep!). The first draft of the story is done and the illustrations are on their way. This was an idea that seemed to come from nowhere!
**My popular science book on venoms. This one’s under contract and I have a deadline (thankfully, not too close). I am very happy about this one. I have 3.5 chapters of the projected 10 or so completed. This is where my “active” block is at right now.
**An “inspirational” book (go figure!). I have close to 15,000 words out of a projected 50-60k. We’ll see where this one ends up. This one is loosely based on this post.
**A popular science pharmacology book. I only have the title of this one and only thanks to my coauthor!
**A possible textbook on astrobiology. For this one I have a coauthor who is also a close friend, but we only have the title so far…
You see, I have plenty of things to do, and actually this short rant has helped me out a little bit… any thoughts? I’d love to hear from you!
Thank you!
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I am a husband, a father of three, and a baldie, who also happens to be a pretty good (I hope) University Professor and Researcher. My undergraduate degree is in General Science, and my MS is in Biochemistry, both from the University of Puerto Rico. My PhD is in Pharmacology, with an emphasis in Neurobiology, from Cornell University. I love science! (do I really need to say it?) In this blog, I mainly talk about science, especially to non-scientists, but from time to time I explore topics like how is it like to raise a boy with autism, science fiction, education, etc. I am usually able to give these and other topics a scientific twist. I also blog about my favorite (non-human) types of organisms, the flatworms, especially planarians. I use planarians as animal models in pharmacology. If you’d like to see my papers so far, click here. Even though I am well published in scientific journals, I got the popular science writing bug relatively recently. I am a scientist who writes, and I have published three book so far. I hope you enjoy my posts. The opinions expressed in this blog are mine alone. They do not represent the views of my employer, my wife, my children, my parents & siblings, or Chuck Darwin…

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  1. I’m assuming you don’t have a block on every project, so you could just write for whatever project you feel like writing for and know what you want to write. Human brain is able to multitask, so you very likely will have an block-breaking idea while working on something else.

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Thanks for your comment. I will do my best to reply soon; be nice!