Understanding and overcoming writer’s block

Some insights and strategies for the affliction every writer dreads

Terry Pratchett and Jodi Picoult didn’t believe in it. Maya Angelou was wary of it. Joan Didion and Ray Bradbury apparently suffered from it. Writer’s block is a tricky, nefarious topic: no one can quite agree on what it is, or on the strategy for overcoming it. In Writers Dreaming, Angelou said, ‘I may write for two weeks, “the cat sat on the mat, that…