Writer’s Block as Liminal Space

JeannettedeBeauvoir
4 min readMar 12, 2023
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One of the gifts of age, for me, has been in becoming less didactic, more tolerant… and certainly less prescriptive. And thank goodness for that! But not so very long ago I was telling students, clients, and audiences alike that I didn’t believe in “writer’s block.” I (probably sneeringly) said that it’s what people use as an excuse to give up when the ideas or words won’t flow.

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JeannettedeBeauvoir

Bestselling novelist of mystery and historical fiction. Writer, editor, & business storyteller at jeannettedebeauvoir.com.