Stephanie Andrea Allen on Writer’s Block and What to Do When the Words Won’t Come

This is a cross-post of a blog I wrote for The BLLC Review.

So, there comes a time in every writer’s life when she sits down in front of a computer screen or pulls out her pen and pad and nothing happens. Nothing. No matter how long she sits there, the words just won’t come. We generally refer to this as writer’s block and many of us have experienced it. The real question is what do you do about it? Well, there are few things that I do when I find myself in this predicament and I’d like to sh...