Getting over Writer’s Block?
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? – Kurt Vonnegut
Most writers will have trouble writing at some point in their careers, the cause of which they will attribute to writer’s block. Neurologist Alice Flaherty, author of The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain (2004) argued that ‘literary creativity is a function of specific areas of the brain, and that writer’s block may be the result of brain activity being disrupted in those areas.’ Victoria Nelson, author of On Writer’s Block(1993) writes that ‘although it can be triggered by any number of…
