Pushing Through

by Kiersten Hallie Krum

Some people think writer’s block is a mythandif you just get up and push through it, the block will resolve itself. You respect it and work with it even when you’d rather crawl back into bed give up on your dreams because today, it’s just too damn hard.But powering through isn’t always enough.

The view isn’t much different from up here.

One of the most whackadoodle imaginings of writer’s block is found in the movie Stranger Than Fictionwhere Emma Thompson’s is a bestselli...