Writer's Block Is Bunk

That's not exactly what prize-winning author Loren D. Estleman recently said at a Michigan writer's conference, but it's close.



The problem with even using the term, he said, is that it's a supremely unhelpful way of saying something very basic and ordinary: you're stuck.



I totally agree. When you say you have writer's block, you turn a minor problem into something major like depression or even cancer. Suddenly you're beset by a grave affliction. When writers say they have writer's block, a no...