Writer’s block often starts when an idea is still vague. This prompt works because it replaces writing with answering. By ...

One way to overcome a lack of inspiration or self-satisfying lyrics—otherwise known as writer's block—is simply to write about it. There's no doubt some of these are the laziest songs ever written, ...

In 1920, a sixteen-year-old Graham Greene decided that, after “104 weeks of monotony, humiliation, and mental pain,” he could no longer remain at Berkhamsted, the prep school where he was enrolled. He ...

What causes writer’s block? You might say fear of failure, lack of dedication, or simple exhaustion, but apparently science has a different answer to this question. In the New Yorker recently Maria ...

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 ...

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 ...