writer's block

writer's block
writer's block
the temporary inability for a writer to think of what to write. •

I have writer's block at the moment and can't seem to get a sensible sentence on paper.

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{n. phr.} A condition of being unable to write; a period when the words just won't come. * /One of the more common problems writers occasionally experience is a writer's block that may last a shorter or a longer time./ * /They say that the reason for Ernest Hemingway's suicide was a severe and seemingly endless writer's block./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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