I'm going to do that when I've written the best thing I can. I've decided that as it's an application for a job I really want I'm going to write a few articles instead of just one and choose the best of the lot. That seems the safest and smartest process.
Have a think about what they need from an applicant and pitch your article accordingly. Or is it just a random sample article - that is not about yourself?
It's a sample article - job is a columnists position writing on the arts and culture - my sample article is on the the invisible exhibition at the Hayward gallery and on Tacita Dean's FILM exhibition and specifically why they're rubbish. I'm just struggling on getting my point across whilst keeping it balanced and funny.
Ah, well write it seriously then and then put some funny in. It might help to create a kind of persona as a writing style device. Also it is very easy to write copy slagging something off, harder to do the opposite and still make it readable and funny.
Quote: Lee Henman @ July 11 2012, 10:13 PM BSTI wonder if it happens in any other profession?
"Can you change the washer on my tap please?"
"Sorry mate, Plumber's Block".
Programmers block: when nothing you write works properly & it gets evermore spagetti-ish or fragmented into sub-routines with meaningless names or objects-with-weird-properties.
Yup!
Usual cure is to blank your brain & start over, drink & sleep.
And chuck away the crap coding so that it doesn't distract you. Write down the objectives, sort them into logical order & start again from there.
You're right Billwill, I've suffered that.