Totally agree with that. I consider writers block just a writers term for chronic laziness. Which yeah, it can actually be solved pretty easy once you force yourself to address why you feel that way. But most of us dont confront it, so we keep putting off writing until it becomes days, weeks, months, and call it writers block
I get like that when either I just get sick of writing what I'm cured tly doing and wanna do something different, or if I have some chapters to get through that I know I'm going to hate writing (ike wrapping up loose ends, you know?) before I can get to write what I actually want.
The first is like eating the same thing every day.
The second is like a series of speed bumps. You dread going through it. But everything is better once you get over them
I do not think it is "just" chronic laziness. I am completely in agreement with Tale Foundry on this one, it is a symptom of any one of several different possible causes.
Of course, there are a few causes that probably represent a greater portion of the cases of writers block than others, but I think I would disagree with the notion that it's writers making an excuse for laziness. Rather than laziness, I would call it chronic procrastination. Chronic procrastination, in turn, is usually a condition that arises from the person wanting to avoid doing something. The reason you want to avoid doing it is because you are somehow averse to doing it.
So, if you manage to identify what it is that is making you averse to writing for this particular project, you can get to the root of the problem and pull it up along with the entire stem we just got done tracing back.
In my case, my most common cause of wanting to avoid writing is burn-out. I have discovered a few strategies to avoid burn-out. What I do is a simple 2 step process. Step 1. Set my release schedule to 1 chapter per week. Step 2. Pursue other writing projects at the same time as my main one. If the second project pans out and produces an actual usable story, add it to the roster and set the new story's release schedule to 1 per week as well.
I can write 10K words per week, but if more than 2K are in a single project then I will be at risk of burn-out. I have never juggled 5 regular projects at once, but I suspect I would also burn out if I did that. So, for me, the solution is to have 2 or 3 regular projects, and 2 or 3 irregular projects, and somehow I disperse my 10K words for the week between all of those. Sometimes, the irregular projects will actually be trying to get ahead on one of my regular projects.
The trick is, obligate yourself to get out that 1 per week on all the regular projects. It's cool if you can do more, but do not actually obligate yourself to do more.