Frank and Ernest by Thaves for August 01, 2021

That is probably your best moaner pun yet. Love it.

It’s hard to overcome writer’s block. I have it on good authority.

Ter-r-r-r-rible pun.

Remember – a pun is the lowest form of humor if the other guy thinks it up before you do!

Pastis would be proud!

Writer’s block is tough but lefter’s block can be quite sinister!

The panel at the top of this page belongs to a great cartoonist.

The novelist looks like he has all the blocking and tackling in place for his next book.

Gifted young children may actually use their writer’s blocks to spell out words.

Packer taking out the Viking kicker would probably result in at least a 15-yard penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct.

The funniest peer reviewed article I have seen is about an attempt at treating writer’s block: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1311997/?page=1

o-o-o-w-w-w-c-h

One of the goofiest fun loving people I know wrote books on wrecks in the Great Lakes with his wife.

One winter the great science-fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein was stuck for a story idea. He’d just sit at his typewriter staring at a blank page, waiting for inspiration to strike. Annoyingly, his cat kept going to the door and meowing to go out, so he’d let it out, and shortly thereafter it was meowing to get back in. This went on for a few iterations before he finally got frustrated and wondered what the dang cat was up to. His wife Ginny just said “Oh, he’s just looking for the door into summer.” Heinlein sat bolt upright and exclaimed “Don’t say another word!” and immediately proceeded to hammer out the classic SF novel Door into Summer.

True. Though, as I recently found online:

“A lousy first draft is better than a non-existing one.”

Marvellous.