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PhD research publications, authorship disputes and writing blocks
Graduate students occasionally encounter conflict with an advisor who does not accord them the authorial credit they believe they deserve. This problem can emerge in a number of ways. Sometimes a student feels that their original idea, data or written … Continue reading
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Tagged academic writing, Authorship disputes, dissertation, PhD writing, publication
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Writing practice failure pays unexpected dividend
Several months ago I publicly pledged (in this blog) to write a hundred, 100-word stories in a year. It was a well-intentioned attempt to insure regular writing and improve my writing skills. I’m ashamed, mortified and perversely proud to admit … Continue reading
“The Words” – a story of a blocked writer telling a story about a plagiarized story.
The Words is a story in which Dennis Quaid, who lost his wife, gives a reading of his novel about a writer, Bradley Cooper, who finds and copies Jeremy Irons’ lost novel about losing his wife. Bradley then has enormous … Continue reading
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Tagged actor who writes, movie about writer, writer's block
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“The Life of Pi” is a tale of writing woes, and a hero with a tiger in his tank
In the movie The Life of Pi, adapted from Yann Martel’s novel of the same name, we have a story within a story about a struggling writer who is looking for a story. Martel inserts himself into the plot as … Continue reading
When enthusiastic feedback activates writer’s block
During a recent class I taught on overcoming writing blocks, a few students remarked that when they receive high praise for their work, they lock up. This seems counterintuitive, as one would think that positive input would put more gas … Continue reading
The rumors of Morgan Freeman’s demise are exaggerated, but he is paralyzed in, “The Magic of Belle Isle”
Sometimes dying is a great way to overcome writing blocks, and this appears to be true for the much admired actor Morgan Freeman, who was recently survived a widespread social media death hoax. Following his resurrection, he starred in The Magic … Continue reading
Father and son blocked writers make peace, and a screenplay, and a movie within a movie about a blocked writer and his blocked father in “Florida Road”
Feuding Indian father-son blocked writers finally make peace, a screenplay, and a movie within a movie about a depressed, blocked writer and his angry, blocked, stroke-victim father in the South African movie, Florida Road. That’s pretty much it in a nutshell, … Continue reading
Flowing with “Unflow” in the writing process
In describing their productivity, writers often discuss the presence or lack of a ‘flow’ of words. There is a body of psychological theory and research, initially developed by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, that addresses the concept of flow in a general way, and … Continue reading
“You’ve had the power all along to return to Kansas…and write your novel.”
In the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz, when Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, informs Dorothy of her power, she isn’t referring to Dorothy’s writing block, but she could have been. Like a struggling writer who’s lost touch with … Continue reading
A blocked Paul Dano writes his girlfriend into existence in “Ruby Sparks.”
Armed with only a recurring dream about a marvelous girl and Eliot Gould for a shrink, Paul Dano manages to bust through a tenacious ‘second novel syndrome’ writer’s block in the movie Ruby Sparks. Unfortunately, he relapses, but fortunately, he starts … Continue reading
