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 ...

Summer on the East Coast. Hazy days, a lack of waves, and for me, a raging case of writer’s block. I’ve gone from surfing nearly every morning to getting out three times in the last couple of months, ...

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 ...

Journalists are no strangers to the horrors of a blank page — staring at it, wanting to tear it apart and hoping words could magically appear. Writer’s block, though on occasion dismissed as laziness ...

Writer’s block has many causes. When we write, we fear criticism and rejection — from bosses, customers or peers. Moreover, the prospect of writing may trigger traumatic memories of school when ...

“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 ...

Writer’s block is one of the few things that nearly all writers share, no matter where they are in their careers. The beginning writer working on their first book. The bestselling debut novelist ...