Building on Brilliance—How to Bring Another’s Genius to Your Own Writing

By Marianne Bohr   

As writers, we’re all familiar with the wall. Things are going swimmingly, all is flowing—the ideas, the emotions, the words—and then suddenly, inexplicably, they stop.

We’ve hit the creative wall.

All writers have ways of dealing with the loss of inspiration and forward motion—they take a walk, hit the gym, meditate, leave the project for a few days, journal, read a good book, throw perfectionism out the window and just keep writing, even though they know it’s l...