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Podcast: Talk of the Bay from KSQD
Episode: Writing Through Writer’s Block with author, educator Aaron Colton
Description: If you’ve had writer’s block — and for all the listeners out there who have ever put pen to paper, chances are a good that you have — there’s no shortage of pithy quotes or “how to” books from famous authors that can help snap you out of it.
“Write what you know,” goes one.
“No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader,” goes another.
As inspiring as some of these aphorisms can be, perhaps our deepest understanding of writer’s block can be gleaned from fictional representations of the commonly experienced phe...