How to Use writer's block in a Sentence

writer's block

noun
  • Not sure where to start, or suffering from a case of writer's block?
    Country Living, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Struggling with content creation due to writer's block or fear?
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Gaiman says the story was inspired by his own struggle with writer's block while working on the comic.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 20 Aug. 2022
  • Key topics include how to juggle the plot, characters, and places, as well as how to beat writer's block.
    NBC News, 14 Oct. 2019
  • The pressure caused writer's block for Hope, and bandmates couldn't agree on directions for new songs.
    Anne Nickoloff, cleveland.com, 21 Feb. 2018
  • Both are struggling with writer's block and end up spending the summer in neighboring beach houses.
    Lily Brown, PEOPLE, 8 June 2026
  • Bardem, who had been struggling with writer's block, finally completes a new poem.
    Patti Greco, Cosmopolitan, 18 Sep. 2017
  • Torrance, an author, brings his wife and son to a remote hotel in Colorado in hopes of curing his writer's block.
    Jennifer Aldrich, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Sep. 2020
  • In an effort to overcome writer's block, Jughead buys drugs off his ex, Jessica, and take them in his trusty bunker to write.
    Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 10 Aug. 2021
  • Bardem is a formerly popular poet suffering from a bad case of writer's block.
    Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Meanwhile, in California, Wild wrestled her own bout of writer's block.
    Kat Bein, Billboard, 12 June 2018
  • To break through their writer's block, January and Gus swap literary genres, and grow close as a result.
    Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 18 Apr. 2026
  • Although Nini struggles onscreen to write the song, Rodrigo had no such writer's block.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 15 May 2021
  • If writer's block really existed, no one would ever graduate or pass classes.
    Anna Aguillard, Southern Living, 2 Nov. 2016
  • The season is split into two stories, the first one being Red Tide, set in Provincetown, Mass. Finn Wittrock stars as a screenwriter who moves his family — pregnant wife (Lily Rabe) and musician daughter (Ryan Kiera Armstrong) — to this seaside town in the hopes of curing his writer's block.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 25 Aug. 2021
  • The two gifted minds tackle this enchanting invention about a depressed screenwriter with writer's block.
    Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022
  • That's what a lot of users are happily prompting today's chatbots to produce, looking to overcome writer's block and get brainstorming help.
    Megan Morrone, Axios, 31 July 2024
  • That said, many people let this particularly paralyzing writer's block prevent them from sending one at all.
    Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 1 June 2020
  • Like her Disney+ character, Rodrigo said she's felt the pain of writer's block through her own career, finding strength in pushing through.
    Vanessa Etienne, PEOPLE.com, 22 June 2021
  • He is known as the world's most famous playwright and England's greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare got writer's block.
    Gerrad Hall, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Jan. 2026
  • As anyone who has experienced writer's block will know, fretting too much about coming up with an original idea can cause creative constipation.
    Daniel Glaser, A-LIST, 1 July 2018
  • Overcome writer's block or polish your manuscript with the Novel Writing Workshop.
    Jennifer Signorelli, Chron, 19 May 2021
  • She's been stuck in a severe case of writer's block ever since her young son died in a car wreck caused by local teen Teddy Fenig (Bubba Weiler).
    Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 14 Nov. 2025
  • But coming up with the perfect Instagram caption to accompany that adorable photo from your childhood playdates can oftentimes lead to an acute case of writer's block.
    Elizabeth Berry, Woman's Day, 13 May 2022
  • D'Angelo would go on tour following the success of Brown Sugar, but did not release new music for several years, citing writer's block.
    Stephanie Sengwe, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The floor-to-ceiling windows that look out onto Albemarle Street are another luxurious touch—and a surefire way to cure anyone's writer's block.
    Leena Kim, Town & Country, 30 Apr. 2019
  • Struck with writer's block after completing Boxers & Saints, Yang was inspired by his wife to build his next graphic novel on the story that was unfolding around him.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 26 May 2023
  • Jack Nicholson plays the new caretaker of a remote Colorado hotel in the offseason, bringing his family and hoping to overcome writer's block.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 1 July 2026
  • In this ultra-scary film, writer Jack Torrance takes on a job as a caretaker for an isolated Colorado hotel, in the hopes of overcoming his writer's block.
    Amy Mitchell, Country Living, 10 Oct. 2022
  • From combating writer's block, developing each character to its full potential and understanding how to self-publish your work when you're done, there's much more to getting that story out than the will to do so.
    NBC News, 8 Nov. 2019

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