Writing Problems: Writer's Block

Beckett, Rhys, Stafford, Tsunetomo, Kunitz, Stravinsky, Rich

Samuel Beckett called writer’s block “agonies of galloping speechlessness.” I know it well. I’ve always had trouble coming up with ideas. This is why I have no facility for or interest in writing fiction. I can’t make anything up.

I think about ideas the same way I think about the mouse that was in my kitchen. I don’t know where the mouse came from, whe…