Writer’s block. We’ve all experienced the dreaded symptoms. Your hand frozen over the page. The blank screen staring back at you like an unblinking eyeball. The fear rising, whispering “you’ll never ...

Nearly everyone has struggled with writer’s block and procrastination at some point. I’ve been studying the phenomenon formally and informally for many years. In the early 1990s, I conducted a survey ...

You've cancelled your plans. You've hired a babysitter. You've quit your job and moved into the mountains with only a typewriter and a jar of peanut butter for company. In short, you've done whatever ...

You're on a strict deadline. You have a lot on your plate. And the screen in front of you is blank. It's been blank for a while, and the clock is ever-ticking. A creeping sensation comprised of ...

“Songwriters,” said Carole King, “are often plagued with the thing most often known as writer’s block. All writers are. Writers of prose as well. I have found that the key to not being blocked is to ...

Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of nonfiction, says that when faced with writer’s block, sometimes it seems that the muse has “gone out back for a smoke.” It doesn’t matter ...

Writer’s block. We’ve all experienced the dreaded symptoms. Your hand frozen over the page. The blank screen staring back at you like an unblinking eyeball. The fear rising, whispering “you’ll never ...