In terms of Ray's struggle with writer's block at the beginning, I'm curious about how you yourself deal with writer's block.
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"I wasn't suffering from writer's block," Sandy confesses to himself.
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Writer's block is just the fear of not being perfect.
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Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.
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In a sense, it's an extreme cure for writer's block.
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"I had writer's block for almost a year," he said.
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"I don't let myself believe" in writer's block, she explained.
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Exhaustive reporting led to a severe case of writer's block.
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Anne has the perfect cure for her husband's writer's block.
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But, equally, Austen might just have been suffering from writer's block.
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You had a bad case of writer's block going into this record.
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Abhimanyu, a successful writer of pulp fiction, is struggling with writer's block.
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He has writer's block, and strongly suggests that it is her fault.
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I keep failing to finish, but this is no ordinary writer's block.
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I wouldn't call it writer's block—that's, like, a naturally occurring thing.
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When you're struck with writer's block, the Psalms are there as a prompt.
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Do you consider Seaside Rock as the proper follow-up to Writer's Block?
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You don't want to bug them during their death struggle with writer's block.
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I think it can lead to writer's block if you eat a lot.
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Morley breaks down different techniques that could prove useful in confronting writer's block.
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Gore Vidal had no patience with anyone who, like Sandy, complained of writer's block.
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In 2006, Swedish trio Peter Bjorn and John released their third album, Writer's Block.
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The single greatest defense against writer's block is to accept and embrace bad writing.
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I don't think anyone expected you to release an instrumental album after Writer's Block.
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Writing "A Tramp Abroad" would frustrate Twain immensely: His writer's block had not yet lifted.
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Writer's block is one of the most common reasons people avoid the habit of journaling.
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Diane, now living in Chicago with her boyfriend, is struggling with depression and writer's block.
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These comprehensive courses will help you tackle writer's block and bring your story idea to fruition.
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Turns out, all we needed was a Tinder bro to snap us out of writer's block.
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Michael is newly single and grappling with writer's block as he works on a graphic novel.
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Born of a moment of writer's block, the painting depicts a very different kind of woman.
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Writer's block is, unfortunately, a plague that even the most skilled and experienced writers can't avoid.
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"I don't think there's any such thing as writer's block or any of that," she said.
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I've always had bad spending habits, but I'm tired of being broke and having writer's block.
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It's not hard to spot Greenberg's own perplexity here; three of his characters have writer's block.
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According to Men's Health, Sorkin takes up to six showers a day to overcome writer's block.
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Jack Nicholson plays a writer so tormented by writer's block that he is driven to murder.
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This conundrum is almost as maddening to me as having a case of severe writer's block.
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I was going through a long bout of writer's block and felt so backed up creatively.
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Even the knowledge that he is traveling to another country can help alleviate his writer's block.
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Marilyn (Andrea Martin) overcomes writer's block and writes a best-selling memoir, also with Julie's help.
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Rowling can express herself if she's having writer's block or just rolling her eyes at the government.
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The Most Dangerous Writing App, from developer Manuel Ebert, is a writer's block tool with a twist.
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Due to writer's block and the company's expansion, Lau now writes two or three fortunes a month.
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People often refer to aloneness and writer's block as the two great challenges of being a novelist.
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Maybe I'll get writer's block and need a distraction in the form of taking turns moving mechs?
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But where Splice goes next could address the biggest, most insidious barrier to creative output: writer's block.
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Hobbled by writer's block, he spent 21923 years completing his doctoral dissertation (which ultimately became a book).
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The reigning theme of "The World Broke in Two" is writer's block, treated as an anthropological constant.
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The creatives are plagued perpetually by writer's block (or sculptor's block or painter's block or whatever block).
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This is also an intensely creative time for you, so expect your writer's block to be broken.
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Odenkirk: I like David Carr's approach, which is that the solution to writer's block is to start typing.
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I go through patches of writer's block and having them around was this extra push to keep going.
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At times she wallows in broken connections and writer's block (winningly, though: "Something, something / No, never mind, nothing").
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The artist told THUMP over email about how the track was an attempt to deal with writer's block.
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I was struggling for a while with writer's block; I fell off from the music a little bit.
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But writer's block is, and that's another of the play's subjects, if not in fact its raison d'être.
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And Karen is a sometime reporter, though she's having a terrible bout of writer's block at the moment.
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" I never actually at any point had writer's block and said, "I don't know where this is going.
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Was there a lot of pressure to follow up Writer's Block because it was such a big success?
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She had five years of writer's block, and her first manuscript was rejected by at least 50 publishers.
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"I can't afford to get writer's block just because Richard Price's signature is staring me in the back."
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Not only can people offer guidance, but also reassurance that dealing with writer's block is natural, Morley said.
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While he is trying to overcome a serious bout of writer's block, she is busy restoring his family home.
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Or was she simply combatting a bit of writer's block by picking characters and adjectives out of a hat?
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Last February, Benjamin Booker flew to Mexico, rented an apartment near Juarez, and tried to break through writer's block.
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I expect to suffer some degree of writer's block pretty much every day for the rest of my life.
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We meet Bangs in the middle of a bout of writer's block, procrastinating while on deadline for a review.
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And it feels appropriate that three of the characters are artists of a kind, all suffering from writer's block.
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Kate's death shocked Ms Gainsbourg out of her writer's block, and she wrote the lyrics in English and in French.
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It will star a best-selling author named Katsu Sakumoto (Atsushi Ito) struggling with a bad case of writer's block.
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He's a poet, with one major hit but troubled by writer's block; she is renovating their home, forever tidying up.
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Between the writer's block and her creative blockage, she says making this album was the longest process of her life.
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His writing teacher, Larry (Billy Crystal), suffers from writer's block and is embittered by his ex-wife's successful literary career.
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Experiencing writer's block can be both frightening and frustrating for anybody working on a project with a deadline fast approaching.
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Ultimately, writer's block isn't a block on writing, Morley added, but is instead a localized block on inspiration and creativity.
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As the name suggests, WritingPrompts is packed with ideas for overcoming writer's block and getting the words flowing more easily.
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Or maybe you've started writing and hit a wall, don't know what to do next, and are frustrated by writer's block.
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And as I started the book of Daniel, it got me thinking about how writer's block had happened before to me.
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But between the writer's block and being at such a low point, it was hard to get myself really self-critical.
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Take a look at what's included: Discovering Your Creative Voice If writers experience writer's block, photographers go through a creative slump.
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Imagine curing writer's block by stepping out into frozen tundra, or finding inspiration for your next sculpture asleep in icy terrain.
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But when he tried to write a book about conservation for children that wasn't preachy or boring, he got writer's block.
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Biting and cruel, she's been hiding in her London flat, stricken by the writer's block she doesn't believe in, drinking uncontrollably.
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He said he had learned not to push himself if he was struggling to write and did not believe writer's block existed.
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Now, the scriptwriter has a chronic case of writer's block and is hoping that nobody will notice as he rehashes old ideas.
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But Steel says the biggest help to her productivity is her unwillingness to let herself slack, even during moments of writer's block.
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That's quite a run, but it looks like he's finally throwing in the towel due to a wicked case of writer's block.
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But after a bit of tequila and a lot of writer's block, I gave up, closed the tab, and went to bed.
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By the book's end, he has married, fought through crippling writer's block to publish a well-received first novel, and been divorced.
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Ulysses S. Grant wrote his memoirs here—and when he was struck by writer's block, Mark Twain moved in to assist him.
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Yesterday, in between tweeting gems of wisdom and battling writer's block, Rowling shared a proud dog mom moment with her Twitter followers.
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Jennifer Lawrence's character — credited only as "Mother" — is the wife of an aging poet struggling with writer's block (Javier Bardem, credited as "Him").
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It didn't take long for the writer's block to lift, and give way to a stream of consciousness that took hours to abate.
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And if you're suffering from a bout of writer's block yourself, you may want to hop the pond and give them a visit!
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The abuse, we realize, is partially responsible for many of his life's failures: his writer's block, his ineptness as a husband and father.
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"Participate in whatever remote shopping initiatives stores offer," said Drew Cohen, co-owner of the Writer's Block, an independent bookstore in Las Vegas.
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Then the focus switches to Mercer, and you start wondering how this innocent with writer's block is going to connect to the criminals.
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Given free run of the White House and unparalleled access to Reagan himself, Morris came down with a severe case of writer's block.
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Anyone dealing with their first bout of writer's block may think it is an experience that no-one can assist in or understand.
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In an interview with The Guardian, the 26-year-old musician discussed the way he's tackled writer's block, and it involves using illicit substances.
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She turned to photography for about a year during an extended writer's block, and when she did get back into writing, everything felt different.
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Sometimes, when I'm having a bout of writer's block, I scan through the pages of my Facebook friends and revel in their latest feats.
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"When I get writer's block, I write '1,2,3,4,5,' down on my computer, and then I think of five ideas rather than one," he said.
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She goes to Tel Aviv, a place she's visited yearly her entire life, to try to break through a bad case of writer's block.
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Israel's inviting "openness and immediacy" also lure Nicole, a novelist with writer's block, temporarily from her Brooklyn home, crumbling marriage and two young sons.
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Shadows come to life, fear and writer's block manifest as mean rodents that repeatedly force her to rip her work up and start over.
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We're all under a time constraint, when we're trying to create or write, so it makes it appear that you have a writer's block.
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" Of a prospective date who's got writer's block, she says: "I can't go out with a guy who's written 11½ pages in three years.
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Instead of diving back into a daylong fight with writer's block, my mind was clear and ready to tackle everything on my to-do list.
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Winston added that the writer would use Lens to break through writer's block, discussing plot points with their patrons to help them finish the chapter.
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Alan is a writer who's been stuck with writer's block for two years, and Alice has secretly arranged for the trip to break that spell.
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So, all of those inner critics were coming up and it manifested out writer's block, and it (tried to convince me) not to keep writing.
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In this episode, the band's frontman, Ben Bridwell breaks down the song "Solemn Oath," and how in the process of writing it he confronted writer's block.
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He, a poet, is struggling with writer's block as he tries to create his next masterpiece, while she spends all her time fixing up their home.
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Miraculously, these unknown faces then begin to appear in Finer's life: a tormented physician (Christopher Redman), then a young journalist (Violett Beane) wrestling with writer's block.
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Woody is a children's book author with a case of writer's block, and the movie is partly about that, a sort of mild Stephen King story.
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Dinner for two, about 100 Canadian dollars, or $75 U.S. "It's like writer's block," the bartender said as she blasted a cinnamon marshmallow with a blowtorch.
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The writer's block isn't how it was, contributing to the fact that it took me so long, because of the things I had to deal with.
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I made it to inbox zero before receiving any more incoming messages, then finally broke through my writer's block to finish my latest article for work.
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When I'm stressed or get a case of writer's block, I find it relaxing to grab my Pencil, open Pigment, and color away for a few minutes.
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Struggling songwriter Roger sings the jingle to his wife as a distraction from writer's block, and the rhyming of "De Vil" with everything Disney fans could imagine.
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It's a third-person shooter about a bad case of writer's block, and the agony of trying to bridge the gulf between genre craftsmanship and high art.
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He excelled at piano, but he felt cursed, even as a child, by long periods of what he called writer's block, usually accompanied by crippling self-doubt.
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They have nothing in common, except for a bad case of writer's block, book deadlines, and—for three months—a shared property line between borrowed beach houses.
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Lester is an unsuccessful composer of musicals in the grip of a sort of writer's block: He can't seem to come up with a decent love song.
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What causes writer's block, however, can differ from person to person, yet it is often linked to concepts of not being 'good enough' or lack of motivation.
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Sometimes, in the ensuing years I would pick up a book of hers mid heartbreak or writer's block, post coitus or cry, and flip to a random page.
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At the beginning our bearded, Scottish-born hero is a successful and fashionable playwright suffering from writer's block and an unhappy marriage to a superficial socialite (Teal Wicks).
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George R.R. Martin, whose writer's block appears almost as significant as his books are lengthy, told IGN that there was a major plot twist coming to the books.
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That fusion of Bach and Reich laid the groundwork for "Schnee," to which he turned after emerging from his writer's block with a piano concerto, completed in 2000.
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Writer's Block is a semi-regular column about graffiti legends, street bombers, and vandals with a mixture of stories, off-the-cuff interviews, and never-before-seen pictures.
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The cocktails have names like Writer's Block and the Elevator, and the list of whimsical boilermakers is called Twin Shots, a reference to the film's spooky girl ghosts.
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Besides providing me the simple joy of witnessing the greatest athlete of all time, highlight reels of Serena smashing tennis balls are particularly helpful during acute writer's block.
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"If it's not fundamentally changing the thinking, or if it's expounding on a place where you have writer's block, I have no problem with that," Mr. Burke said.
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For her part, Susan is trying to work through her writer's block on a novel by creating a kind of free-association memoir of her relationships with men.
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For a time he saw a therapist for writer's block until it was mutually agreed that somebody as prolific as Mr. Gold could not be described as blocked.
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And unlike your creative reserves, the S Pen will never experience writer's block or burn-out, since (just like a real pen) it never needs to be charged.
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I am writing quite a bit lately and I find this book to be very inspirational in both the development stage as well as the writer's-block stage.
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Carving out small windows of time can help, too: The psychologist Robert Boice helped graduate students overcome writer's block by teaching them to write for 15 minutes a day.
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Eddie Morra (Bradley Cooper) is a dejected novelist with writer's block whose woes include being dumped by his girlfriend (Abbie Cornish) and harangued by his landlord about the rent.
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That usually breaks down the wall of writer's block — plus, I end up with a short writing piece that I can give to my mother or my educational facilitator.
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I think about that puzzle a lot when I'm hitting a writer's block and want to feel bad about how much more creative and ambitious other constructors can be.
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Also on hand is Christopher Marlowe (Jamie Campbell Bower), a duplicitous weasel whose treatment for writer's block is to be circled and groped by a group of naked men.
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Rolling Stone was holding about 10 pages for Thompson's Nixon story, but Thompson had writer's block, "so they took my pictures and they blew them up," Ms. Leibovitz said.
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In the 10 years leading up to her third solo effort, Stefani suffered a long bout of writer's block – until, it seems, her tumultuous, tabloid-fueling split from Gavin Rossdale.
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A year on, Nardil had provided relief from the worst of the depression, but it had also soldered the writer's block down at the edges, sealing off important neural pathways.
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"It's the first time in a while that I've worked on something that's so completely new, which I think is just asking for writer's block to take over," she said.
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A rebellious energy is in the air and an unexpected ending may take place, but this is a phenomenal time to break through writer's block or a block concerning intimacy.
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Middle age becomes a concern throughout (Fagen released the album when he was 45, after a lengthy bout of self-examination and writer's block), as does the emptiness of nostalgia.
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I set aside a month to learn this poetry, perfect my rudimentary Farsi, overcome a brutal case of writer's block and then research and ideally write a book about it.
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The lag set off speculation that Mantel suffered from writer's block, or was distracted by the stage and television adaptations, or was procrastinating because she couldn't bear to kill Cromwell.
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After quitting the CBC in her late 30s to write "the greatest historical novel ever," Ms. Penny suffered five years of writer's block, bingeing on gummy bears and Oprah reruns.
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It's often unclear whether you're meant to laugh or scream at this tale of a homemaker (Jennifer Lawrence) and her husband (Javier Bardem), a poet with something like writer's block.
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She has trinkets like a Supreme seahorse keychain (that comes with a pretty good story) and a book called Writer's Block by Asa Ray Henson, given to her by a fan.
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Now, she has expanded her services to include wedding coaching, bridesmaid crash courses, maid-of-honor packages and speech writing assistance for those who fear writer's block before the big day.
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On ground level at the complex is The Writer's Block, a store that bumped its stock from about 5,000 books at a previous location to about 20,000 in the current one.
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" Altogether, Mr. Stein was the author of more than a dozen books, including how-to guides for novelists, and he sold software that was marketed as "guaranteed to eliminate writer's block.
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Mr. Sorrentino has serious gifts, and his observations about sex, envy, writer's block, marriage and what's left of New York City's literary world hint at the formidable novel this might have been.
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And I wondered: Was the torpor that occasionally seemed to weigh down "The Fortunes" — an impression of impeccable research awaiting an animating spark — merely a symptom of its author's own writer's block?
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" Norman adds that Yoko Ono "responded wholeheartedly" to the "Liverpool Wank" idea and coached John through writer's block as he wrote, "standing at his shoulder, the way Paul McCartney once used to.
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Stress and exhaustion and depression had given me a fairly severe case of writer's block, and I had pivoted to ghostwriting work to supplement my husband's teaching salary and pay the mortgage.
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Now she has also expanded her services to include wedding coaching, bridesmaid crash courses, maid-of-honor packages and speech writing assistance for those who fear writer's block before the big day.
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The film centers on Jennifer Lawrence, a beautiful, naive young woman newly married to an older writer (Javier Bardem) suffering from writer's block, and the two settle down into the writer's secluded home.
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You might have writer's block, but you're recording music, which means you have work ethic: You're able to find some sort of inspiration somewhere, even if you're not impressed by what you create.
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Writer's Block is a semi-regular column that zeroes in on graffiti legends, street bombers, and modern-day vandals with a mixture of stories, off-the-cuff interviews, and never-before-seen pictures.
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And he'd been writing vivid, maximalist pop music in Modern Baseball alongside Brendan Lukens for five years before a bout of writer's block prompted him to start this fresh project two years ago.
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In her job at the Bronx Studio School for Writers and Artists, she sometimes has to coax students struggling with writer's block to jot down more than the bare minimum in their assignments.
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He was very influential on the way I write songs in that he was one time telling me he was annoyed by depictions of writer's block in movies like with a blinking cursor.
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High expectations from fans and record labels have been known to produce some good old fashioned writer's block, or at least present a certain standard that needs to be matched if not exceeded.
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An ordinary tagline is preceded by hours of creative exploration, research on understanding the target audience, writing and re-writing, and proofreading (not to mention the countless minutes lost while combating writer's block).
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After publishing two best-selling collections of comic essays, "Metropolitan Life" and "Social Studies," decades ago, a famous case of writer's block took hold, and Ms. Lebowitz transferred her wit to public speaking.
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"That it took me 50 years to see my own novel published was not due to a paucity of ideas, or a half-century of writer's block," Mr. Bain told Publishers Weekly in 2014.
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After battling a stint of writer's block and hoping to squash it, he decides the best option is to take on a post as the winter caretaker at the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado.
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She has written a subtle and idiosyncratic account that tries to elucidate her decades-long writer's block even as she recognizes that — as with so much in anyone's life — she cannot fully grasp it.
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Depression, alcoholism, asthma, writer's block: nothing seemed to alleviate her problems, not a prestigious job as poetry consultant at the Library of Congress (arranged by Lowell), not lengthy stays at the writers' colony Yaddo.
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Mr. Greenberg's latest work unfolds within a creative-writing class, taught by a not-so-young man, Aaron Port (Josh Radnor), who has an affliction he would really prefer you not define as writer's block.
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"People don't think about this, but (when they get) writer's block or any sort of crazy block they just go: 'Oh, I've got it' and they think that they are stuck with it," Morley said.
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The No. 1 way for introverts to become better at public speaking A best-selling author reveals his 3 techniques to overcome writer's block 5 tips for powerful public speaking, according to TED Talk coaches
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At the height of his career, he was writing two or three fortunes a day—a target so high it caused him to suffer writer's block and downscale his output to just three fortunes a month.
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If a friend is pursuing their dream of writing fiction in lieu of a paycheck, sign them up for streaming services that will give them a break when they get a serious case of writer's block.
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During the show on Saturday, West revisited his decision to interrupt Swift during her acceptance speech for Music Video of the Year back in 2009, and revealed that he struggled with writer's block after the incident.
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Equally, "In The Water" references each Brand New album—including the making of this one—in a swan song that writes anxiety, writer's block and expectation directly into the band's history before tethering it to tragedy.
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When Scott Seeley and his husband, Drew Cohen, who own and run The Writer's Block, were first thinking of where to relocate from New York in 2013, Vegas "was not even on the radar," Seeley said.
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Late in his career, facing a decade-long writer's block, his writing was reborn, first by engaging with the visual arts and, later, through writing about aspiring revolutionary groups who were fighting power from the margins.
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There's been one regarding faster-than-light neutrinos (which don't exist, as far as we can tell), a completely empty abstract for a 1974 paper on writer's block, and Gardner and Knopoff's 1974 paper I cited earlier.
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Dear Annabel,I recently moved out to LA, which was a super big, life-changing move: I left all my friends, family, and any withering love interests to pursue music, but I've had the worst writer's block.
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It sits in his inner sanctum, where he likes to compose, undisturbed; or, rather, where he would compose, were it not for a nasty case of writer's block, compounded by failure of another kind, the poor lunk.
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He was inspired by Federico Fellini's surrealist flick 8 1/2—a film about writer's block and being haunted by the past, which prompted Turner to explore his own mirrored fears—to overcome them and look inside himself.
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Their relationship is pretty much defined by the lows of Mother's isolation while her husband works on his writing and tends to uninvited guests, and the highs of Him finally overcoming his writer's block and Mother getting pregnant.
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"Assassin," directed by Jeff Wadlow from a script by Jeff Morris, using themes borrowed from Mr. Allen's '70s comedy "Bananas" and the meta-comedy "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind," begins with some mildly clever evocations of writer's block.
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"The system can actually create stuff in a much more of a creative fashion than humans can in some ways," Malm said, explaining how Phrasee won't ever experience human side-effects of copywriting, like writer's block or burnout.
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The AI's guidance removes pitfalls like word choice and writer's block, in theory, but the technology comes with a price: relying on existing work to create new content, and using humanity to make sure the bot's words make sense.
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Romance is in the air and this is a wonderful time for creative self-expression, too, so if you've been having writer's block, this will be a wonderfully freeing time, as Jupiter's expansive energy mingles with Neptune's powerful imagination.
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According to James Clear, the author of "Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones," writer's block is a form of procrastination, which is generally rooted in the avoidance of negative emotions.
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"I think highly creative works often take a very long time to accomplish," said GameFAQs user FredericChopin with respect to The Last Guardian, "cannot be rushed, and there will be inevitable writer's block, for lack of a better expression."
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"Giving Up the Ghost," by Hilary Mantel; "Topics of Conversation," by Miranda Popkey; "Concrete," by Thomas Bernhard, which is a terrifying book about writer's block and lies there like a piece of voodoo, never to be touched or finished.
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A noir, hilarious take on card writers, romance, and a journey to beat the ultimate writer's block, Girlfriend's Day is the perfect antidote to the sugary cinema you'd otherwise be subjected to on Valentine's Day, when it premieres on Netflix.
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In a new study published Monday in the journal Nature, Dominy and his team make a compelling argument that after Seuss spied the rarely-seen patas monkey in Kenya, his writer's block lifted, and he wrote his famed book, The Lorax.
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It's a fitting drink of choice served up at parties throughout the show, but no amount of trash juice can dull Vernon's abiding boredom with his suburban existence, Jimmy's writer's block, Lindsey and Rebecca's marital woes, or Gretchen's fear of commitment.
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Rowling was obviously battling writer's block on Thursday, so she took to Twitter to share her struggle — and it's a struggle anyone whose ever tried to write anything, whether it's a school assignment or a novel, will know all too well.
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"The older I'm getting, the more I'm getting a writer's block or something," he tells me over dim sum at the Nom Wah Tea Parlor in Manhattan's Chinatown, playing with some wooden chopsticks as chili oil bleeds across his plate.
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This volume takes him from the age of 19 until the dissolution of his first marriage 14 years later, a period of binge drinking, social awkwardness, band practice and writer's block, in which the only real constant is his literary ambition.
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True, the movie doesn't ascribe everything in "A Christmas Carol" to autobiography: Dickens also has conversations with his characters, who, led by Christopher Plummer as Scrooge, appear to him like the Christmas ghosts and help him through his writer's block.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 91%Summary: In the comedic drama "Adaptation," screenwriter Charlie Kaufman (Cage) attempts to make headway on his next film script, while he's plagued by his annoying twin brother Donald (Cage) and a nasty case of writer's block.
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I was searching for remedies to writer's block on YouTube when I found a video of Toni Morrison talking about the white gaze — the assumption that the reader is white and the resulting self-consciousness in your thinking and writing.
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The MIDIS hand-held tool comes in a variety of shapes and utilities, ranging from the slimmer "Scan" which helps to "bust through writer's block" to the "Drum" which allows air-drummers to transfer the beats in momentary thoughts to actual realized compositions.
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She fixates on the story of Charles Jackson, the alcoholic author of the best-selling 1944 novel "The Lost Weekend," who became sober, but developed writer's block, and was never able to publish the big book he planned to write about recovery.
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"I think students get writer's block and say 'ugh I don't know what story I'm going to tell' or 'I don't think that I've had any life experiences that are worthy of this college that I want to apply to,'" she says.
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"I think students get writer's block and say, 'Ugh, I don't know what story I'm going to tell' or 'I don't think that I've had any life experiences that are worthy of this college that I want to apply to,'" she says.
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The cinematic narrative (already adapted by Roman Polanski and unveiled at Cannes this year) unspools as you read: Overwhelmed by the success of her best-selling autobiographical novel, Delphine encounters a vicious case of writer's block, incapable even of responding to an email.
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So while we still don't know when George R. R. Martin will finally finish the next book in the series that the show is based on, perhaps he can work through the writer's block with a couple goblets of Seven Kingdoms wine.
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Perhaps the show will return to its more fractured, convoluted approach in episodes to come, but if "Dragonstone" represents what the show can do when it can forge its own path, Martin's writer's block may end up being a net positive for the series.
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Writer's block 5 — $39 See Details ReadMe Premium: Lifetime Subscription Read faster and easier (think less eye strain and fatigue) with ReadMe, an app that strips away everything on the e-reader screen and lets you focus on just a few sentences at a time.
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A couple of years ago, in the last part of Nora Ephron's life, I became friendly with her and she used to tease me and say, "How is Love, Loss, and What We Ate coming along?" when I was having writer's block and panic attacks.
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Jim began to craft the story of Hemingway, having just won the Nobel Prize and experiencing writer's block while on assignment for Life magazine in Spain to pen an article covering the mano a mano between two great matadors, Antonio Ordonez and Luis Miguel Dominguin.
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"Three flops in a row, up to your eyeballs in debt," the character Ebenezer Scrooge taunts Charles Dickens, mired in writer's block, as he stares at a sign promising his next story — a tale about Christmas — above an empty stand in a London bookstore window.
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Shakespeare also finds a sort-of champion in established and celebrated writer Christopher Marlowe (Jamie Campbell Bower), although there's a bit of a Mozart-Salieri aspect to their relationship, with Marlowe's admiration tied to a bout of writer's block as he wades into lustful indulgences and distractions.
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If you're struggling to find inspiration — be it writer's block, brainstorming a new business idea or solving a problem — here are five strategies to uncover and develop new ideas: It's important to stay on top of what's happening in the business world and your industry in particular.
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The premise proved so endearing, in fact, that the game got the live-action film treatment in Japan earlier this year, which gave theatergoers a glimpse into the life of a writer who takes in stray cats as a way of dealing with stress and writer's block.
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That single was lifted from the band's third album, Writer's Block, which turned out to be a gift that just kept on giving to hip-hop acts: Drake sampled "Let's Call It Off" for So Far Gone and Azealia Banks claimed "The Chills" for an early single.
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Each has its own specialty in "Ninth House": Skull and Bones practices divination using human entrails; St. Elmo conjures storms; Aurelian does fantastical things with books and language, at one point curing a novelist's writer's block with a ritual involving the exchange of blood and ink.
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After that, though, Scott begins to exhibit all the tendencies of a tortured, tantrum-throwing artist -- indulging in booze and wild parties while grappling with a nasty case of writer's block -- while Zelda alternately joins in and fumes, both at his excesses and his attempts to control her.
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But, there is also the scene where Xo tells daughter and lead character Jane (Gina Rodriguez) "I'm still your mom" at a spa trip gone wrong, and the later sequence when Jane breaks her writer's block by speedily typing away about Xo's many amazing feats of radically supportive motherhood.
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Though his mind often returned to making music, a bout of writer's block and mistrust spawned by his circumstances stifled his creativity, eventually to the point that he believed others must have unlocked a songwriting formula or "had the magic flute" that he'd never access on his own.
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But a writer's progress can be measured in pages, and the image of the writer banging his head against the wall trying to write a lone sentence is enough of a cliché that we have a colloquialism — writer's block — to explain why a book might take eons to finish.
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Saddled by four years of writer's block as a result, Chapman's once robust output of rock albums has in recent years slowed to little more than scattershot instrumental guitar releases, albums he would record in a day or two for whichever label would ask in order to keep the bills paid.
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Sting The prolific Grammy winner had been suffering from writer's block until he began composing the autobiographical musical The Last Ship, which chronicles the struggles of a shipbuilding industry and a young man who returns to the hometown he abandoned to hopefully win the heart of the girl he had left behind.
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I was teaching as an adjunct professor every day of the week and holding private writing workshops in my home at night; I was raising a small business and two children; I had writer's block; I needed to grow up, find material worth writing about, join a writers' space, get a new computer.
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If 2013's 6 Feet Beneath The Moon detailed the beginnings of Marshall's journey, third album The OOZ is the moment he becomes submerged in all the heavy gunk—the end product a result of writer's block, the demise and birth of several relationships and the changing landscape of a city crumbling under his feet.
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To date, Writer's Block is still the trio's most recognized work, but since then, they've been busy working together, on their own (Peter Moren has a solo career) and with others (Yttling has produced and written for Primal Scream, Franz Ferdinand, and Lykke Li; John Eriksson has played with Lykke Li, Sahara Hotnights, and the Concretes).
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Find out if your local bookstore offers curbside pickup Some independent bookstores like the Writer's Block in Las Vegas and Books Are Magic in New York are offering curbside pickup, meaning you order on the phone or online and go get your book "like a pizza," as a bookstore owner told the New York Times today.
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They must be incredibly functional, with deep pockets, just-right necklines, and sleeves that will stay pushed up but are also long and roomy enough to bunch around my hands and hold tight from the inside, turning my arms into fabric hot dogs (I do not know the scientific reason why this posture helps with severe writer's block, but it does).
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Faced with an extreme case of writer's block and the wide, wonderful world of dating apps, a graduate student named Richard wrestles with a crucial question for the millennial generation: When your twenties are supposed to be one predictable upward trajectory toward nice restaurants, cushy apartments, and pairing off via algorithm, what happens when you swerve and get off-track?
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In that fine print, it turns out that Andrew's breakdown — his visions, the attendant writer's block and uncontrollable urges, as well as a protracted, bizarre battle he wages with a "cut of Black Angus beef tenderloin, dry aged for 21 days and weighing seven and a half pounds, at $39.99 a pound" — reflects the strictures that governed the ancient High Priest's conduct leading up to the moment, during Yom Kippur, when he would speak the name of God and attain atonement for all the world's Jews.
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In "Sandra," she writes: I'm sitting in a mercy The small mercy of an apartment I can't afford Where the cock down the street Still crows all afternoon & into the evening I've been away for months Fighting my part of the war And because I could not desert my post My tongue has dried out And no part of my word would cohere But put that in the future tense Nothing will cohere or gel until I find out how to speak again Until I find out whether I can Here, Reines isn't alluding to proverbial "writer's block" so much as poetry's ambiguous agency as an everyday organizing principle.
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