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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most of us have experienced writer’s block. We sit in front of a piece of paper and do not know where to start and what to write. Or we sit at our computer, stare at the screen, and although we know ...