You can’t get into your writing, you can’t type a word—you panic! You’ve got writer’s block! Whoa, hold your horses: genuine, long-lasting “writer’s block” is dire but uncommon. What feels like blocked is almost always stuck, and stuck is a much less dire (and much more common) condition. So don’t come unglued when you can’t write: there’s a very good chance that your condition is temporary, and there are effective ways to help yourself get unstuck. Lorrie Bodger will spell out what writer’s block is and isn’t, why or if you have it, and most important, how you can begin solving the stuck problem right away.

Lorrie Bodger, author of more than thirty books, teaches writers, does private editing, and writes a twice-weekly blog for writers and readers called The Book Under Her Bed, at www.thebookunderherbed.com. She’s been stuck more than once.

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The Writing Life events in 2014 were generously underwritten by Jenny Lawrence.