'Writer's Brain' and How It's Preventing You from Writing

A basic writing primer (part 3)

The other day I spelled out the learned pseudoscience of the “Editor Brain” and “Clown Brain.”

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Aspiring writers often allow their self-critical, analytical Editor to shut down the no-filter, spontaneous Clown during the vital idea-generation phase.

This premature judgment leads to a blank page and creative paralysis. Writers censor ideas before …