My personal strategy for writer's block? Well, that's quite simple. ... Er. Well, no, unfortunately not. Unfortunately, I don't have 10 ultimate tips on how to overcome every writer's block casually and with a smile. The truth is, there are days when I struggle with every sentence, with every word, and somehow it just doesn't flow at all. The first step towards writing is then to convince myself that I'm glad I didn't become a journalist. After all, I would have to "deliver" every day. Of course, that would be lying to myself and at most eliminating cognitive dissonance. After all, I'm a lawyer. And as such, I have to deal with words (almost) every day and put my thoughts into convincing sentences. But back to the actual question, you didn't want to know how and what I moan to myself, but what I do.
First of all, it depends on what I have in front of me. There are usually student data three different types of texts that I have to deal with. Firstly, there are blog posts for the social media law blog or for guest posts in magazines or other blogs. Secondly, there are legal texts such as expert opinions, briefs or specialist articles. And finally, “pure” legal work such as drafting contracts. All three types of texts require different skills. Writing contracts is a bit like playing chess: all options must be considered and all eventualities taken into account. The actual facts (e.g. a business model) and the law must be brought into line. To do this, the “what happens next” machine in your head has to be wide awake so that, in case of doubt, all the necessary networks for the client are also incorporated. Legal texts naturally also require a high level of attention, but it goes in another direction. Because of course, for liability reasons alone, everything has to be watertight from a legal point of view. Pure legal jargon, however, has a habit of being unreadable for a layperson. And so the challenge here is to master the challenge of formulating things as legally as necessary, but as comprehensibly as possible. That leaves the blog posts. The aim of the blog is to present the law of the latest media in a way that is not only easy to understand for laypeople, but also worth reading in terms of style. In the best case, the texts read as if I had written them in a cheerful and cheerful half hour. That is NEVER the case, but for it to look that way, I have to have a certain passion for the topic and ideally be in a correspondingly cheerful (or ironically caustic) mood.