The 5,000-year history of writer’s block
The romantic image of the writer doesn’t do justice to the tedious reality of churning out words
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The 5,000-year history of writer's block
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.”
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