Writer's Block 🫠

(New & Improved, with Extra Stuckness)

I tried to find the artist for this image, but interestingly enough, there are scads of identical-but-slightly-different sketches on the internet. Tin Eye did not help. Thank you, regardless, to the artist.

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I am not the type of writer who likes to tell people that writer’s block doesn’t exist, even if I hadn’t, until recently, experienced the ghoul of that name. First off, who am I to invalidate another person’s experience, especially something happening in their mind? Secondly, I felt that if I denied that writer’s block existed, it would be like saying “Candyman” three times, immediately bringing the buzzing plight into my own home.