writer's block

noun

a usually temporary condition in which a writer finds it impossible to proceed with the writing of a novel, play, or other work.

Origin

1945-50

Examples from the web for writer's block

Perhaps he did: he often complained of the artistic malady known as writer's block.
It is merely teaching participants how to overcome their writer's block.
He sat in dark rooms with writer's block, depressed and self-pitying.
If ever he suffered a moment from that form of exquisite self-indulgence called writer's block, there is no record of it.
One thing he did not have to overcome was writer's block.
He was depressive, he had writer's block, and he drank too much.
Bearing witness to millions of terrorized voices does not indulge writer's block, nor allow for vacations.
He's never known writer's block and always seemed utterly at ease in his celebrity.
Mario is a henpecked husband and author suffering from writer's block.
writer's block is a mysterious problem every writer must come to terms with on his own.