A practical guide for writers at any level shares strategies on how to overcome writer's block for any writing project, identifying common causes of writer's block as well as methods for beginning the writing process. 15,000 first printing.
Jane Anne Staw, Ph.D., has taught writing at Stanford University and the University of Iowa, and currently teaches at the UC Berkeley Extension School and the University of San Francisco M.F.A. Program in Writing. She also works with writers individually, helping them to overcome writer's block. A published poet with an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Iowa, she is the author, with Mary Swander, of Parsnips in the Snow. She lives in Berkeley, California.