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How To Get Over Writer’s Block

June 25, 2016 By Ben McEvoy

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If you’ve been painfully constipated for weeks on end, would you take a laxative?  Of course you would. You won’t feel better until you get that shit out of there. Today we’re going to talk about the mental kind of constipation: Writer’s block The tips that follow are my go-to artistic laxatives for making sure […]

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Benjamin McEvoy

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