The romantic image of the writer doesn't do justice to the tedious reality of churning out words, one after another. fcscafeine/iStock via Getty Images Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and ...

Writer’s block. We’ve all experienced the dreaded symptoms. Your hand frozen over the page. The blank screen staring back at you like an unblinking eyeball. The fear rising, whispering “you’ll never ...

With books, we read and escape into our alternate lives where we might fight off dragons, burn down beautiful buildings, befriend a little prince or play the lead role in an epic love story. Now, it’s ...

Have you ever sat down to write something only to have your mind go completely blank the second you’re about to begin? According to a journal published in the National Center for Biotechnology ...

Writer’s block. We’ve all experienced the dreaded symptoms. Your hand frozen over the page. The blank screen staring back at you like an unblinking eyeball. The fear rising, whispering “you’ll never ...

(THE CONVERSATION) Ann Patchett, who has written eight novels and five books of nonfiction, says that when faced with writer’s block, sometimes it seems that the muse has “gone out back for a smoke.” ...