Introduction

About 200 years ago, probably on a dark and stormy night, mary shelley gave the world frankenstein. About the same time, her husband, an intermittent and tortured poet named percy, gave us writers block. Joan acasella has a great piece on this in the new yorker,. In it she describes the evolution of writer's block. It turns out percy's poem, his writing about getting stuck, spread. The thing is, there's no such thing as writers block. So any copywriter, video editor, social media goroo who's worth his or her salt has writers block.