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Writer's Block

Definition: Writer's Block

Writer's Block

Noun

1. An inability to write; "he had writer's block; the words wouldn't come".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Modern Usage: Writer's Block

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I have writer's block. It's the worst feeling in the world! (The Golden Girls; writing credit: Philip Broadley; Gabriel Castro)
Movie/TV Titles	Writer's Block (1995)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Writer's Block

Domain	Title
Books	THE WRITER'S BLOCK 786 Ideas to Jump-Start Your Imagination (reference) Script Magic : Subconscious Techniques to Conquer Writer's Block (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Image Slideshow: Writer's Block

Anagrams: Writer's Block

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "'-b-c-e-i-k-l-o-r-r-s-t-w"
	-4 letters: blockiest, cribworks, wristlock.
	-5 letters: bisector, blockers, blockier, blowiest, blowsier, brickles, bricoles, brockets, broilers, cloister, coistrel, corbeils, corkiest, costlier, cowrites, cribwork, lobstick, orbiters, reitboks, ribworts, rockiest, stickler, stockier, strickle, strobile, ticklers, trickers, trickles, twirlers.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: Writer's Block

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

57 72 69 74 65 72 27 73 42 6C 6F 63 6B

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010111 01110010 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010 00100111 01110011 00100000 01000010 01101100 01101111 01100011 01101011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#114 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#39 &#115 &#32 &#66 &#108 &#111 &#99 &#107

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0072 0069 0074 0065 0072 0027 0073 0042 006C 006F 0063 006B

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

57847586718498523678816977

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Images: Slideshow

5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography

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