What exactly is writer's block?

star_gazer

Writer's block is a phenomenon involving temporary loss of ability to continue writing, usually due to lack of inspiration or creativity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer's_block Many say that this is why the famous writer Ernest Hemmingway killed himself. Jun 26 07, 9:26 PM

Arpeggionist

Writer's block is a sudden or continued lack of abitlity to work with words or music. It is a malady that attacks all writers, poets, playwrites, composers and speakers from time to time. The causes of writer's block can be varied from either not having enough physical strength to do any serious thinking (from malnutrition or other things) to deep psychological ailments. Jun 27 07, 1:29 AM

thegogga

Writer's block is a phenomenon that hits writers from time to time in that they just feel that they can, psychologically, no longer write, and anything that they do they dismiss as rubbish. 'an inability to write; "he had writer's block; the words wouldn't come" ' http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=writer's%20block Jun 27 07, 4:24 AM

Baloo55th

It can happen to just one work that someone is writing. I started one story 20 years ago and got three paragraphs into it. I've written other things in between, and now finished that one. At last.... Jun 27 07, 2:53 PM

teenage-angel

Writer's block is something that happens when trying to write but you don't seem to have any ideas or any thoughts as to what to write about or what will happen next. Jun 28 07, 7:46 AM

Baloo55th

...and that's about the best wording I've seen for it. Jun 28 07, 4:41 PM