I love Wikipedia’s definition of writer’s block:
“Writer's block is a condition, primarily associated with writing, in which an author is either unable to produce new work or experiences a creative slowdown.”
So melodramatic: The author is unable to produce new work. Practically an illness: a condition.
I also love the image Wikipedia chose to accompany the entry: 19th- and 20th-century impressionist painter Leonid Pasternak’s “The Passion of Creation.” High drama. Total despair. (Google the phrase writer’s block, and that image will come up a lot.)
You have to understand that Leonid was friends with Leo Tolstoy, perhaps the most melodramatic author to set foot on this earth…
