The Honest Truth About Writer’s Block

The mind and its machinery

What is left to say about writer’s block? The term has its own Wikipedia entry, for heaven’s sake. Scores of books dissect the concept, and podcasts too. It’s obviously not a modern-day problem. Gustav Flaubert, Herman Melville, Charlotte Brontë, and George Eliot all wrestled with creative blockages of one sort or another.

Why bring it up at all?

Because …