How to combat writer's block?

[Munkay]

I forget where it was that I read this, but I've seen several different articles/stories/some sort of written work about authors who actually did comparisons of what they wrote in times when they felt they had writer's block versus what they wrote when the writing came easily.  In every one of them, the authors decided that their writing was no different, that their writing level was the same no matter how they felt about it while they were doing it. 

Personally, I've had plenty of papers I've written that came easily that I would read the next day and decide they weren't any good.  On the other hand, there have been times that the writing was really hard for me but the end results were great!  I think that our perception, as we write, is not really indicative of how the result is going to come out.

Therefore, my best suggestion would be to ignore how you feel about your "writing mood" and just start working!  :)

If you happen to remember where you read it, I'd be interesting in knowing.

I too have experienced the 'easy' paper that turns out bad. Or the hard paper that turned out great. It'd just be nice to read a real case study of this. :)

Cheers,

Munk