Is writer’s block interfering with your creative vision and its realization?

Writer’s block arrives clothed in deception.

It assumes a variety of symptomatic forms.

Karen Mack and Eric Skjei, in the first chapter of their book, Overcoming Writing Blocks***, suggest:

“Among the most obvious symptoms of blocking is procrastination. If you find you’ve got a writing job to do and you’re blocking, you find yourself frantically looking for anything you can possibly find or contrive to distract yourself so that you can avoid having to get to work… You actively seek out diversions, one after another: trivial phone calls, lists of things to do, unnecessary conversations…anything to keep from sitting down at your desk and working.”

At 240-pages, Overcoming Writing Blocks describes various forms that blocking assumes with the writing process and offers detailed advice on overcoming them.

The book also has several chapters devoted to applications and unblocking techniques at work for different types of work, including business writing, student writing, technical, academic, and professional writing, and finally, personal writing.

Overcoming Writing Blocks*** is available on Amazon and through used bookstores


*** Overcoming Writing Blocks, Karen Mack and Eric Skjei, J. P. Tarcher, Inc. Los Angeles, 1979

______ Dennis Mellersh Business Media Writer, Journalist, Editor