Writer’s block often starts when an idea is still vague. This prompt works because it replaces writing with answering. By ...

Bird by Bird encouraged would-be writers to blast past their hang-ups and embrace “shitty first drafts.” But there’s more to ...

Ask any successful author for advice, and they will all tell you the same thing: to be a great writer, you have to be an avid reader. While its important to stack your TBR pile with the world's ...

Writer's block, characterized by a prolonged inability to generate written content or a feeling of creative stagnation, affects writers across genres and disciplines. It is a common and often ...

It might give you comfort to learn that America’s friendliest writing coach on occasion succumbs to writer’s block. On a rare occasion, he refers to himself in the third person, but will stop doing ...

Improv games and exercises can be incorporated into the writing process to overcome writer's block and boost productivity. Improv's "Yes, and..." rule is a great writing tool; when writers know they ...

When summer comes, great and yawning and wide, the students go away. It is, for us college teachers of writing, an unbroken stretch of space when we—if we choose—can listen to our own voices. Finally, ...