Doer's Block or Starting Block?

Writer’s block.   Familiar problem.  Our Google search found hundred’s of thousands of citations for that phrase.  With offers of treatments.  Cures. 

That’s because writers find themselves:

Stuck.                                    
Spinning my wheels.
On dead center.
Up against it.   
At a dead end.                      
Don’t know where to start.
Don’t know what to do.

But nobody else has this problem.  Only writers would recognize these scenic descriptions.  Because if other people had problems like this, there would be something called Other People’s Block.   There would be books about it.  Exercises to treat it.  Treatments to cure it.

We have found some people who do run into such blocks.   They sometimes consider it a problem.   Every problem that’s worth talking about has to have a name, so we called it Doer’s Block. 

No point in naming something if you are not going to do something about it.  So we worked up some things to do about it.  Not exercises.  No way are we going to suggest exercises for solving problems.  We are just going to suggest some ways to get your brain to hit the ground running.

Please don’t image this last idea.