Writing Through the Block

A few days ago I was visiting Mason Canyon's blog, Thoughts in Progress and saw she'd posted on writer's block. Mason writes for a newspaper, and she mentioned that when you're writing articles for a periodical, you've at least got a format to follow for your story: who, what, when, where, why and how. Mason said, "By answering those questions it helps overcome any writer's block I have."

Most of the writer's I know don't have a whole lot of trouble with writer's block. Many of us...