“There’s no such thing as writer’s block,” fantasy writer Terry Pratchett is said to have quipped. “That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write.” As a professional writer, I ...

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 ...

Can you white knuckle your way past writer’s block? Sure, but this neuroscientist’s approach is more pleasant and more effective. “There’s no such thing as writer’s block,” fantasy writer Terry ...