While resting during a brief lull in work, Charles looked at me and asked me if I ever suffered from "
writer's block." Charles' wheels are always turning and for some reason yesterday, the wheels were turning on writing.
In the present, Alma Huebner, a Latina author living in Vermont, is trapped by
writer's block, unable to finish her novel about the attempt to bring the cure for smallpox to what will become Latin America; this is the story set in the past, which features Isabel, the director of a Spanish orphanage.
But he has been suffering, he tells us, from a period of
writer's block and the deadline pressure might help him to break through it.
Take"
Writer's Block Theme Song," a poem exploring the age-old
writer's block conundrum from the perspective of an MTF.
Described by designer Keith McIntyre as a "Scottish ceilidh in Swahili", the production follows the story of Donald Johnson, an over-worked writer suffering from
writer's block. Having missed his script deadline again, he is wide awake at 4.04am ( and slowly going insane.
In late December of 1968, as we were preparing our first issue for publication in January, Bill Moyers called to say he was experiencing
writer's block on a piece he was doing for us and didn't think he could get it finished in time.
Other university writing centers hold workshops or minicourses on grant writing, oral presentations, literature reviews, and overcoming
writer's block. Other university writing center administrators have set up dissertation writing groups.
Initially, I had experienced a short bout of
writer's block that prevented me from exploring this character's state of mind fully enough to keep writing.
THE MIDNIGHT DISEASE: The Drive to write,
Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain ALICE W.
It makes you happy because it's sugar, even though it's not a cure for
writer's block.
However, their trials and tribulations offer me no solace - this is the first time I've ever suffered
writer's block, and if I could think of the right words to describe the frustration, I'd tell you all about it.
At that time, the distinguished dance writer Edwin Denby was suffering from
writer's block. Lydia would be his listener, discussing his ideas at length, sometimes even delaying deadlines and returning his copy for additional pondering.