the current manifestation of writer's block

One of the most useful things I learned from Victoria Nelson's excellent book, On Writer's Block, is that you can't let writer's block present itself to you as a reified monolith. Which is to say, without the fancy words, writer's block is not an ineffable thing imposed on you from the outside. (Well, okay, with different fancy words.) It is not the monolith from 2001. It's a problem, or a set of problems, you are having with the interface between your creativity and what I call the front off...