The idea that my students “struggle as writers” implies that that there is an unproductive or, at the very least, less productive way to write. While in the wide world of academic writing at large—and certainly in my own experiences with procrastination and revision—this is almost certainly true…is it true in the environment of English […]
writer’s block
Curing Writer’s Block and NOT Leaving Yourself out of Your Writing
The first chapter I choose to read was Writer’s Block Just Happens to People by Geoffrey Carter. Carter begins this essay by emphasizing he inevitability of writer’s block, and then introduces his readers to Edmund Bergler, the first person to invent the term “writer’s block,” and who was also an assistant director to Sigmund Freud. […]