A 5-step process designed to recognise, understand and overcome this affliction

By Marige O'Brien, Copyright E2006



Writer's block -- that sudden, seemingly inexplicable inability to put words to paper -- can strike any writer at any time. In fact, inexperienced writers suffer from it more often than they realize: they just don't recognise it for what it is. They think the lack of confidence, motivation or experience is based on a far more serious problem. They're half-right. What they don't realize is, that IS writer's block, or at least some of the symptoms of it. But they are right about it being more serious, because writer's block IS serious. Fortunately, it's also curable, too.



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