How do you get past...

[RiverNotch]

Writer's block.

I met a professional writer who told me there was no such thing. I want to believe him, but then what do you call this sudden cease of flow in your hippocrene? You have a brilliant idea but it's been days and days and you're at a loss of words to bring it to life. Is there anything more FRUSTRATING?

So I want to know, how do you get past your "writer's block"?

First answer: timidity, stupidity, folly... many things, but I suppose you're not really a writer in the same sense as the professional if you don't learn to get over them, just as you learn to get over how silly your job is, if you're, say, a janitor, a lecturer, a lawyer, etc.

Second answer: not having any ideas at all, not loving, not being loved, not graduating on time, watching someone you love die and being helpless to do anything -- but those all depend on perspective, really. What's really absolutely the most frustrating thing for anyone ever is a one word answer: PUBERTY. 

Third answer: for stuff on a schedule, I just write -- even if I end up writing poop, by the end, if I really want it to not be poop, I know I can always get back to it, so I keep on (theoretically -- for the most part, I actually just wallow in the cum-soaked underwear of knowing I'm so, er, impotent.) For stuff not on a schedule, I just let it be, and it becomes, or it isn't, and that's that. 

Fourth answer: I love talking poop.