18: Writer's Block Just Happens to People, by Geoffrey V. Carter

Kyle Stedman (@kstedman) reads the bad idea "Writer's Block Just Happens to People" by Geoffrey V. Carter. It's a chapter from Bad Ideas about Writing, which was edited by Cheryl E. Ball (@s2ceball) and Drew M. Loewe (@drewloewe). Don't miss the joke: the author of the chapter is disagreeing with the bad idea stated in the chapter's title.

Chapter keywords: blank pages, play of names, puns, writer’s block

Geoffrey V. Carter is an associate professor of English at Saginaw Valley State University, where he teaches undergraduate courses in composition. His areas of interest include writer's block, video culture, and the history of pinball. His work has appeared in journals like PRE/TEXT, Kairos, Computers and Composition, and Enculturation. He has also published chapters in Bad Ideas About Writing (2017) and Rhetorical Speculations (2019). (2020 bio)

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