It sounds to me like writer's block is relative to what's being written.
The definition of a professional journalist is that if, upon leaping from
an airplane, it is discovered that the laptop was on the back rather than
the parachute, the journalist can finish his or her obituary before they
hit the ground. For most kinds of writing, paid or unpaid, an inability
to write would not be mental but the sign of a stroke. I'd say what most
people call writer's block is more thinker's fog.
That's why it affects people who try to do something difficult, like write
a poem or story, and has never, in the short history of the internet,
stopped anybody from posting to Usenet.
David Latane
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