ALTERNATE VOICES: WIL RADCLIFFE

Writers block. We've all been there. And we can all remember that first time we sat down in front of a blank page, ready to write our first project. For days, weeks, years--any amount of time--ideas had been swirling in our mind. But the minute we look at those empty college-ruled lines (or blinking cursor on the computer screen), we go blank.

Wil Radcliffe, author of The Whisper King, addresses this writer's block in his guest column, called "A Writer's Curse." But heapproaches theissue a lit...