Overcoming writer's block, Rebecca Davis, and a call for ribbon.

I don't really suffer from writer's block. (I can hear the writers out there sharpening their knives.) I think the main reason I don't is that when I finish a story or a novel, I immediately look around for something to help prime the pump for the next work. Reading, of course, is always useful. But even moreso is finding something new, something I don't do myself, something that will force me to think/see/feel with someone else's vision. Art galleries, films, dance performances.

I came to...