Can you white knuckle your way past writer’s block? Sure, but this neuroscientist’s approach is more pleasant and more ...

Emily Dickinson wrote, “Much Madness is divinest Sense / to a discerning Eye / Much Sense — the starkest Madness — / ’Tis the majority.” Writers are seemingly mad to the rest of the world. We’re ...

I’m a writer. As a writer, one of my least favorite things on this planet is Comic Sans. Coming in a close second is writer’s block. If you are a writer, there’s a better than 100,000,000 percent ...

Journalists are no strangers to the horrors of a blank page — staring at it, wanting to tear it apart and hoping words could magically appear. Writer’s block, though on occasion dismissed as laziness ...

We tend to think of writing as something that happens “up here,” between our ears. But I’ve come to think that writing is a physiological event, not just a mental one—that it involves the whole ...