Let's Stop Obsessing About "Writer's Block"

"Writer's Block is bunk."

That's not exactly what prize-winning author Loren D. Estleman said a few years ago at a Michigan writer's conference, but it's close. And he'd already published over 60 books--and he worked on a typewriter.

The problem with even using the term, he said, is that it's a supremely unhelpful way of saying something very basic and ordinary in the life of a writer: you're stuck.

I totally agree. When writers say they have writer's block, a normal, unremarkable part of...
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Published on January 04, 2016 05:32
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