On the root causes of writer's block

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For a long time, Sarah Callender was a skeptic on the subject of writer's block: "Meryl Streep doesn't suddenly find herself unable to act. Barbara Walters doesn't suddenly find herself unable to ask nosy, semi-inappropriate questions." But over time, Callender writes, she came to believe that writer's block is real: "How do I know? Because Writer's Block is almost always the result of doubt, and doubt loiters and lollygags in the heart and head of every serious writer."

July 22, 2014

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