I've been writing professionally for a few years now, but I've written all my life and because I know how good I am, I am an insane perfectionist and demand nothing less than the very best from everything I write. It really makes it a living hell a lot of the time. Just today I was helping a friend who's a performer write a new bio for her website, and it was nothing big at all, but it took hours because I agonized over every sentence. It turned out very nicely, though, and most of the things I work on end up being really good...in fact, what sucks is more often than not, the more I agonize, the better the piece ends up turning out. I nearly killed myself a few weeks ago over my magazine's cover story, and it ended up being really something quite special and one of the best things I've done, and it's raised my stock quite a bit within the field. I don't know what to tell you...every writer has a different way of dealing with writers' block, but I've kind of learned that even when I'm able to manage it in different ways, it's always going to BE there to some significant extent, and the only solution is to just push against it like hell and just write. The perfectionist in me will always create that fear and that doubt and that massive blankness in my mind that seems impossible to get around, but it's gotta be done. It's a grueling process for some of us, like falling off a cliff and clawing your way back up. Eh...s'gotta be done.